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Caducous. Falling early ; sooner than deciduous. 



Ccespitose, Forming tufts. 



Calcarate. Resembling, or furnished with a spur. 



Calyciform. Shaped like a calyx. 



Cahjculated. Furnished with an additional outer calyx. 



Calyx. The lowest portion of a flower, or that which forms 

 its outer covering in the bud ; usually of a green color. 



Campanulute. Bell shaped ; which see. 



Canescent. Whitish. Hoary. 



Capillary. Hair like. 



Capitate. Shaped like a head , or bearing a head. 



Capitulum. See Head. 



Capsule. A hollow seed vessel, which opens by valves and be- 

 comes dry when ripe. 



Carcerulus. A superior, many celled fruit, the cells dry, inde- 

 hiscent, and few seeded, cohering by a common style round 

 a common axis; as in Mallows. 



Carinated. Keeled. Furnished with a sharp or prominent back 

 like the keel of a vessel. 



Carnose. Fleshy in consistence. 



Carpel. A little fruit. The integrant part of a compound fruit. 



Cartilaginous. Hard and tough, like gristle. 



Caryopsis. A grain, or fruit like wheat and the seeds of grasses. 



Catkin. See Ament. 



Caudate. Having a tail. 



Caudex. The upper part of a root, which gives rise to the stem. 



Caulescent. Having a true stem, or caulis. 



Cauline. Growing on the stem. 



Cell. A cavity or compartment of a seed vessel or anther 



Cellular. Made up of little cells or cavities. 



Cernuous. Drooping or nodding. 



Cespitose. See Csespitose. 



Chaffy. Made of short membranous portions like chaff. 



Chartaceous. Resembling paper. 



Ciliate. Fringed with parallel hairs. 



Cinereous. Ash colored. 



