GLOSSARY. 



Caducous : falling away early. 



Caespitose ; growing in a tuft. 



Callous : thickened. 



Calyx, 63. 



Cambium, 31. 



Campanulate: see Bell-shaped. 



Campylotropous, 83. 



Capillary : hair-like. 



Capsule, 89. 



Capsular; relating to, or with the char- 

 acters of a capsule. 



Carinate : keeled ; bearing on the back a 

 sharp longitudinal ridge. 



Cariopsis, 95. 



Carpel : a single pistil, or one of the parts 

 of a compound pistil. 



Carpellary : pertaining to a carpel. 



Carpophore : Flora, p. 157. 



Cartilaginous : hard and tou^h. 



Caruncle : an appendage of the liilum. 



Caudate : tailed. 



Caudex, 17. 



Caulescent : furnished with a stem. 



Cauline : pertaining to the stem. 



Cell : one of the cavities of the fruit or 

 of the anther, &c. 



Celled : divided into cells. 



Cellular Tissue, 3. 



Centrifugal Inflorescence, 48. 



Centripetal Inflorescence, 48. 



Chaff: thin scales or bracts. 



Chaffy: furnished with chaff, or of the 

 texture of chaff. 



Chalaza, 82. 



Channelled : with a deep longitudinal 

 furrow. 



Character: a phrase employed to distin- 

 ■ guish a genus, &c. from all others. 



Chartaceous ; of the texture of paper. 



Chlorophyll : the green matter of leaves, 

 &c. 



Ciliate : fringed with a row of hairs. 



Circinate : rolled inward at the apex. 



Circumscissile, 89. 



Cirrhose : bearing tendrils ; tendril-like. 



Clasping: enclosing by its base, as a leaf 

 the stem. 



Clavate : club-shaped. 



Claw : the stalk of a petal. 



Clawed: raised on a claw. 



Climbing: clinging to other objects for 

 support. 



Club-shaped : terete and gradually thick- 

 ened upward. 



Clustered: crowded. 



Coated Bulb, 21. 



Cobwebby : bearing fine loose hairs. 



Coohleate : coiled like a snail-shell. 



Coherent: growing together. 



Column: the axis of a compound pistil; 

 the united stamens of the Mallow Fam- 

 ily ; the united stamens and pistil of the 

 Orchis Family. 



Commissure: Flora, p. 157. 



Comose : bearing a coma, 99. 



Compound: composed of similar simple 

 parts, 36. 



Compressed : flattened. 



Cone : the scaly fruit of the Pine. 



Confluent: limning together. 



Conglomerate; heaped together. 



Conical: cone-shaped. 



Connate: growing together at the base, 



as opposite leaves around the stem. 

 Connective, 71. 



Connivent: brought near together. 

 Continuous : in one piece ; not jointed. 

 Contorted: twisted; bent. 

 Contorted sestivation: see Convolute. 

 Contracted: narrowed; not spreading. 

 Convolute, 68. 

 Cordate : heart-shaped. 

 Coriaceous : of the texture of leather. 

 Corm, 20. 



Corneous : hard like horn. 

 Cornioulate : bearing a horn or spur. 

 Corolla, 64. 

 Corymb, 56. 

 Corymbose : branched like a corymb ; 



arranged in corymbs. 

 Costate: ribbed. 

 Cotyledons, 104. 



Creeping: prostrate, and rooting. 

 Crenate : having sharp notches on the 



edge separated by rounded teeth. 

 Crenulate : slightly crenate. 

 Crested : bearing an elevated ridge. 

 Crown : an appendage of the corolla at 



the base of the limb. 

 Crowned : bearing anything at the apex. 

 Cruciform ; shaped lilce a cross. 

 Crustaceons : hard and brittle, like a shell. 

 Cryptogatnous Plants, 107. 

 Cuculiate: see Hooded. 

 Culm, 16. 



Cuneate: wedge-shaped. 

 Cup-shaped : shaped like a bowl or cup. 

 Cuspidate : ending abruptly In a sharp 



point. 

 Cuticle 31. 

 Cylindrical: round and of nearly equal 



thickness. 

 Cyme, 60. 

 Cymose: arranged in a cyme. 



Decandrous : having ten stamens. 



Deciduous: falling off at, or before, the 

 close of the season. 



Declining : leaning to one side. 



Decompound : several times divided. 



Decumbent : prostrate, but ascending at 

 the summit. 



Decurreut : with the edges extending be- 

 low the main point of attachment. 



Definite: few; a number easily counted. 



Definite Inflorescence, 48. 



Deflexed: bent downward. 



Dehiscence : the manner in which closed 

 organs regularly open. 



Dehiscent : opening regularly. 



Deltoid: triangular. 



Dentate : having sharp notches on the ed^e 

 separated by coarse arid spreading teetn. 



Denticulate : slightly toothed. 



