458 APPEliDIX 



[.TSwmbera refer to paragraphs.) 

 Complete leaf. One which has blade, petiole and stipules. 1186. 

 Compound leaf. A leaf of which the blade is composed of more than one 



portion (89); exceptions in 111, 112a. 

 Compound pistil. One which has more than one carpel. 159. 

 Conduplicate. Trough-shaped: in cross-section, V-shaped. 59, Fig. 62. 

 Cone. A splcate flower-cluster, in which the flowers or seeds are obscured by 



scales: strobile: generally applied more particularly to the coniferous 



gymnosperms. Lix. 

 Connate. Said of two opposite conjoined sessile leaves. 120, Fig. 106. 

 Connective. The stalk or bar connecting the separated lobes of an anther. 165. 

 Convolute. Rolled up, as the corolla in Fig. 275. 

 Cordate. Heart-shaped. 132. 

 Corm. A solid bulb-like tuber. 447. 



Corm^el. A small or secondary corm borne about a large or mother-corm. 449. 

 Corolla. The inner series in a biserial perianth : the petals. 145. 

 Corona. Crown. 

 Correlative characters. Those attributes which have been carried along as 



secondary or incidental features, and which may have little significance to 



the present life of the organism. 4236. 

 Cortex. Bark. 



Corjimb. A flat-topped or convex-topped flower-cluster in which the outer- 

 most flowers open first. 218. 

 Corymbose cyme. A compound cyme, which appears to be corymbose because 



the outermost cymules open first. 224. 

 Corym.bose-cymose. Determinate inflorescence in which, because of suppres- 

 sion of the interior flowers, the outer flowers open first. 223. 

 Co-terminal. Applied, in this book, to flowers (and fruits) which terminate a 



growth made the same season. 55. 

 Cotyledon. A seed-leaf: one of the leaves of the embryo. 389a. 

 Crenate. Scalloped. 133. 



Cross. The offspring of any two flowers which have been cross-fertilized. 

 Cross-breed, half-breed, mongrel, variety-hybrid. A cross between varieties 



of the same species. 

 Cross-pollination. Transfer of pollen to pistil of another flower. 269c. 

 Crossing. The operation or practice of cross-pollinating. 

 Crown. An outgrowth from the throat of the perianth: corona (213, 250); 



also the top of a bulb or corm, or of an upright rootstock: also that 



portion of a plant at the surface of the ground. 

 Crown-tuber. A tuber of which the top is stem and the lower part root. 457. 

 Cryptogam. A flowerless plant: one of the class which does not produce 



seeds. 427. 



