GLOSSARY OF TERMS AND INDEX TO PARTI 205 
Convolute. In a leaf, the complete rolling from edge to edge, 34. 
Cordate. Heart-shaped, the stem and point at opposite ends, 21. 
Coriaceous. Leathery in texture or substance. 
Corolla. The inner, usually the bright-colored, row of floral 
leaves, often grown together, 24. 
Corymb. A flat-topped or rounded flower-cluster; in a strict use 
it is applied only to such clusters when the central flower does not 
bloom first. See cyme, 26. 
Crenate, Edge notched with rounded teeth, 22. 
Crenulate. Finely crenated, 22. 
Crisped. Having an undulated or curled edge. 
Cross-section of wood, 35. 
Cuneate. Wedge-shaped, 21. 
Cylindric. With an elongated, rounded body of uniform diameter. 
Cyme. A flat-topped flower-cluster, the central flower blooming 
first, 26. 
Deciduous. Falling off; said of leaves when they fall in autumn, 
and of floral leaves when they fall before the fruit forms, 23. 
Decurrent leaf. A leaf which extends down the stem below the 
point of fastening. 
Definite annual growth, 29. 
Dehiscence. The regular splitting open of fruits, anthers, ete. 
Dehiscent. Opening in a regular way, 27, 28. 
Deliquescent, 16, 29. 
Deltoid. Triangular, 21. 
Dentate. Edge notched, with the teeth angular and pointing out- 
ward, 22. 
Denticulate. Minutely dentate. 
Dichotomous. Forking regularly by twos, as the branches of the 
Lilac. 
Dilated. Spreading out; expanding in all directions. 
Diecious. With stamens and pistils on different plants, 25. 
Distichous. Two-ranked; spreading on opposite sides in one plane; 
as leaves, 18; or branches, 19. 
Divergent. Spreading apart. 
Divided. Separated almost to the base or midrib, 23. 
Drupe. A fleshy fruit with a single bony stone. In this book 
applied to all fruits which, usually juicy, have a single seed, 
even if not bony, or a bony stone, even if the stone has several 
seeds, 27. 
Dry drupe. Used when the material surrounding the stone is but 
slightly fleshy, 27. : 
Duration of leaves, 23. 
