MOSSAHT. XI 



Valyx ; tlie outer whorl of leaflike organs forming the flower,. 



usually grden, called sepals. ' 

 Capillary ; like very slender threads. 

 Capitate; growing in heads or close clusters;" having a knob 



like the head of a pin. 

 Capsular; like a capsule. ' . ' "' ' 



Capmh; a dry usually many-seeded, seed-vespel. 

 Caipet; the divisions, of the ovary or capsule :' sonietimes one 



carpel forms an ovnry; being rolled up sb that its edges 



meet. ' ' ' " ' . ' 



Carpophore ; the stalk of the ovary or capsule within the outer 



whorls of the flower. 

 Catkin; a deciduous unisexual spike of crowded flowers in which 



the perianths are replaced by bracts. ■ ' 



CeUuiar tissue ; a collection of miBute Vesicles filled ■ with fluid. 

 Chaffy ; covered with minute membranous scales. 

 Channelled ; hollowed somewhat like a gutter. 

 Cilia ; hairs placed like eyelashes on the' edge of anything. 



'dUate; wibh-'cUia. .i ' ,- ; 



Circinate; rolled up from the top towards the base like a crosier. 

 Clavate ; clubshaped. ' _ n 



Claw ; the narrow base of a petal. 

 Clawed ; having a claw. ■ ■ 



Cleft; deeply cut, but not to the midribi 



Clubshaped ; a solid body which is- slender at the 'base and gra- 

 dually thickens upwards; ' ■ 

 Cluster; a kind of dense cyme; also the patches of capsules in 



Ferns. ,1" ■ 



Cbherinffftlae attachment to each other of similar parts ; as the 



petals forming a monopeialOus corolla. 

 Collapsing : shrinking together. The submersed and much- 

 ■ ' divided leaves of- aquatic plants- often collapse into a fonn 



like a painter's pencil, when removed from- the water. 

 Columella ; a cylindrical central placenta. 

 Commissure ; the inner faces of the carpels' (mericarps) of Um- 



belliferffi, by which they join. 

 Compoimd; formed Of many simikr parts which ultimately and 

 ' naturally separate from each other. A compound -umbel 

 ,'■■ has small umbels on its branches. ' '"• '• 



Cimpre'ssed ; w'hen flattened laterally. 

 Conduplicate ; folded upon each other lengthwisfe. 

 Cone ; fruit of a fir-tree. 

 Conical ; a solid figure narrowing to a point from a circular 



base. . , ; 



Connate ; when two similar parts, as leaves, are slightly con- 

 - . nected round the stem-. 

 Gorineetice ; the continuation of the filament between the cells 



of an antheir. ' 



