vl GLOSSARY. 
Cautis, (stem), the ascending part of shrubs or herbaceous plants is called 
a caulis. 
Cuarry, (paleaceous), covered with small membranous scales, resembling 
the palez of Grasses. 
Citiz, (cilium, hair of the eye-lids), when the hairs are long, and forming 
a fringe on the margin of anything like the eye-lashes. 
CrxiaTED, furnished with marginal hairs, resembling the eye-lashes. 
CINERACEUS, ash-greyish. 
CINEREUS, ash-grey. 
Crrcinatvus, curled round like the head of a crosier, as the young shoots of 
some Ferns. 
CrgrHovs, (cirrhosus), terminated by a spiral or flexuous filiform appen- 
dage, and commonly called a tendril. 
CiavateE, (clavatus), club-shaped, gradually thickened upwards from a 
slender base. 
Craw, (unguis), the narrow part at the base of the limb of a petal. 
CLUB-SHAPED. See Clavate. 
CLUSTERED, (aggregatus), collected into bundles of a roundish figure. 
CoB-WEBBED, (arachnoides), covered with white thin slender entangled 
hairs, resembling the web of a spider. 
CocHLEATE, (cochleatus), twisted in a spiral manner, so as to resemble the 
conyolutions of a snail shell. 
CoHERING, (coharctus), the uniting together of homogenous parts. 
CoLUMELLA, the bristle-like axis in the fruit of many mosses, the axis from 
whence the valves of many carpels separate is called the 
columella. 
CotumNA, when the filaments are combined into a solid body. 
Coma, empty bracts terminating an inflorescence, and mostly coloured, as 
in some species of Salvia. 
OMB-SHAPED, (pectinatus), leaves with narrow close segments, like a 
comb. 
Compounn, (compositus), anything having various divisions or ramifica- 
tions, or when several divisions are united to form one whole, 
aspinnated leaves; the various forms of inflorescence composed 
of more than one flower. 
COMPRESSED, (compressus), flattened lengthwise. 
CoNDUPLICATE, when the sides are applied parallel to the face of each 
other. 
Cone, (strobilus), an amentum, the carpella of which are scale-like, spread 
open, and bear naked seeds. Sometimes the scales are thin, 
with little cohesion, as in the hop; but generally they are 
woody, and cohere into an oblong tuberculated mass, as in 
the Fir tribe, &c. 
ConFERTUS, crowded closely round each other. 
CoNFLUENS, parts united together into one mass. 
Con¥FERVOID, like conferva or sea-weed. bd 
CoNGLOMERATUS, the same as clustered. 
Conical, (conicus), the figure of a cone. 
ConJuGATE, (conjugatus), paired, when the petiole of a pinnatifid leaf bears 
one pair of leaflets, Bijugus, when it bears two pairs, 
