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CORCULUM [dim. a cor, the heart] the 

 heart and effence of a feed, and the primordium 

 of the future plant, attached to, and involved 

 in the Cotyledon : it confifts of the Plumula, 

 which Linnseus calls its elTence, and Rojlelltmi, 

 which fee. 



CORDATUM Folhm [Cor, the heart] eji o- 

 vatiim bap, excavatum, dejl'itntum augulis pojlicis ; 

 fhaped like the heart on cards, but the apex not 

 quite fo iliarp ; as in the Potamogeton perfoliaium, 

 Menyanthes nympboides^ Menifpermum virgin'tc. ca- 

 rclin. & CQCculus. 



CORDIFORMIS. See Cordatum. 



COROLLA [dim. a corona, a crown] one of 

 the feven parts of fruftification, according to 

 Linnaeus, who defines it thus, liber planta in Jio' 

 re prafens, the bark of the plant prefent in the 

 flower. It is the coloured or painted leaves of 

 the plant, confifting oipetala and ne£iarium. 



COROLLULA [dim. a corolla] a little corolla. 



CORONA Seminls, a crown ; the little crown 

 which adheres to many kinds of feeds, and 

 \vhich, ferving them as wings, enables them to 



difperfe : 



