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Caducous. Dropping or falling off, especially at an early stage of development. 



Gaespitose. Tufted. 



Callous. Hardened, and usually thickened. 



Calyaine. (1) Pertaining to the calyx ; (2) of the nature of, situated on, or like a 

 calyx. 



Calyptmte. (1) Hood-like ; (2) having a hood or lid. 



Calyx. The outer series of floral leaves. 



Campanulate. Bell-shaped. 



Gampylotropous. Incurved ; applied to ovules. 



Canaliculate. Minutely channelled or grooved. 



Capillary. Hair-like. 



Capitate. Head-shaped, or collected into a head. 



Capsule. A dry fruit-vessel of one or more cells, splitting in a regular fashion, but 

 according to various plans. 



Carpel. A pistil, or such an organically complete portion of a compound pistil as is 

 comparable to a simple pistil, vyhether separable or not from the other similar 

 portions. 



Carpophore. In flowering plants a portion of the receptacle prolonged between the 

 carpels, as in the geraniums and many Umbelliferae. 



Catkin. A flower-spike of unisexual flowers. It is usually pendulous, and it sepa- 

 rates from the plant when flowering is over. 



Cauline. Applied to leaves carried on the stem, as distinct from those that spring 

 from near the root. 



Cellular tissue. Consists usually of thin-walled cells, more or less round in form, or 

 with their length not much exceeding their breadth, and not tapering at the ends. 



Ciliate. Fringed with hairs, or with fine hair-like teeth. 



Ciliolate. Fringed with fine hairs. 



Cinereous. Of an ash-grey colour. 



Ciroinate. EoUed inwards from the apex into a coil. 



Clavate. Club-shaped. 



Cleistogamic. Having flowers which never expand, and are systematically self- 

 fertilised. 



Coccus. One of the portions into which a lobed fruit with single-seeded cells sepa- 

 rates when ripe. 



Coherent. Term applied to organs of the same kind when they are united together, 

 as petals may be coherent with petals, stamens with stamens. 



Coma. (1) The empty leaves or bracts that terminate, in a brush or tuft, the flower- 

 ing stems of some plants ; (2) a tuft of hair, cotton, or wool on the outer coat 

 of a seed. 



Commissure. The place of meeting or point of union of two bodies, parts, or organs. 



Compressed. More or less flattened laterally. 



Conduplicate. (1.) Folded together along the midrib so that the halves are face to 

 face, the upper face of the leaf being within ; said of a leaf in vernation. (2.) 

 Folded upon themselves and around the caulicle ; said of the cotyledons in a 

 seed. 



Conglobate. A term applied to a compound flower grovying in the form of a sphere 

 or globe. 



Connate. Applied to organs of the same kind when united by growth, as opposite 

 leaves sometimes become completely united at the base. 



Connective. That portion of the filament of a stamen that is inserted between the 

 anther-lobes, whether these are near to each other or far apart. 



Connivent. Nearer together at the summit than the base. 



Cordate. Applied to heart-shaped leaves vyith the petiole at the broader and 

 notched end, 



