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GLOSSARY. 



Capitate, pin-like, having a rounded summit, 



as some hairs. 

 Capitulum ; head of flowers in Compositse. 

 Capreolate, having tendrils. 

 Capeification, the ripening of the Fig, by, 



means of the wild fig or Caprificus. 

 Capsula Circumscissa, same as Pyxis or, 



Pyxidium. 

 Capsule, a dry seed-vessel, opening by valves, 



teeth, pores, or a lid. 

 Carceeulus, a fruit consisting of several 1-2- 



seeded indehiscent carpels cohering by a 



common style round a common axis ; as a 



Mallow and Tropseolum. 

 Carina, keel, the two partially united lower 



petals of papilionaceous flowers. 

 Carinal, appHed to sestivation when the carina 



embraces the other parts of the flower. 

 Carnose, fleshy, applied to albumen having a 



fleshy consistence. 

 Carpel or Carpidium, the leaf forming the 



pistil. Several carpels may enter into the 



composition of one pistil. 

 . Carpology, the study of fruits. 

 Carpophore, a stalk bearing the pistil, and 



raising it above the whorl of the stamens, as 



in Lychnis and Capparis. 

 Caepos, fruit, in composition Carpo. 

 Caruncula, a fleshy or thickened appendage 



of the seed. 

 Caryopsis or Cariopsis, the monospermal 



seed-vessel of Grasses, the pericarp being 



incorporated with the seed. 

 Cassideous, shaped like a helmet. 

 Catkin, same as Amentum. 

 Caudate, having a tail or feathery appendage. 

 Caudex, the stem of Palms and of Tree-ferns. 

 Caudicle, Caudicula, the process supporting 



a pollen-mass in Orchids. 

 Caulescent, having an evident Stem. 

 Caulicle, Cauliculus, a stalk connecting the 



axis of the embryo and the cotyledons. 

 Caulis, an aerial stem. 

 Cellulose, the chemical substance of which 



the cell-wall is composed. 

 Centimetre, a French measure, equal to 



0.3937079 British inch. 

 Centrifugal, applied to that kind of inflo- 

 rescence in which the central flower opens 



first. 

 Centripetal, applied to that kind of inflores- 

 cence in which the flowers at the circumfer- 

 ence or base open first. 

 Ceramidium, an ovate conceptacle having a 



terminal opening, and with a tuft of spores 



arising from the base ; seen in Algse. 

 Ceratium, a siHquseform capsule, in which'the 



lobes of the stigma are alternate with the 



placenta, as in Glaucium and Corydalis. 

 Cereal, appHed to Wheat, Oats, Barley, and 



other grains. 

 Ceenuous, pendulous, nodding. 

 Chaffy, covered with minute membranous 



scales. 

 Chalaza, the place where the nourishingvessels 



enter the nucleus of the ovule. 

 Chlamys, covering^ applied to the floral en- 

 velope, in composition Chla-mydeous. 

 Chlorophyll, the green colouring matter of 



leaves. 

 Chloros, green, in composition Chloro. 

 Chorisis or Chorization, separation of a 



lamina from one part of an organ, so as to 



form a scale or a doubling of the organ ; it 



may be either transverse or collateral. 

 Chroma, colour, in composition, Chront.'' 

 Chromogen and Chromule, the colouring 



matter of flowers. , 

 Chrysos means yellow like gold, in composi- 

 tion Ckryso^ 

 CiCATRicuLA, the scar left after the falling of 



a leaf; also applied to the hilum or base of 



the seed. 

 Cilia (Cilium), short stiff hairs fringing the 



margin of a leaf ; also delicate vibratile hairs 



of zoospores ; ciliate, with cilia. 

 Cinenchyma, laticiferous tissue, formed by 



anastomosing vessels. 

 Circinate, rolled up like a crozier, as the 



young fronds of Ferns. 

 CiRCUMSCiSSiLE, cut round in a circular man- 

 ner, such as seed-vessels opening by a lid. 

 Circumscription, the periphery or margin of 



a leaf 

 Cirrus, a tendril, or modified leaf in the form 



of a twining process. 

 CiSTOLiTH, an agglomeration of raphides 



(Sphseraphides) suspended in a sac by a 



tube, as in Ficus elastica. 

 Cladenchyma, tissue composed of branching 



cells. 

 Cladocarpi, mosses producing sporangia on 



short lateral branches. 

 Cladoptosis, the fall of branches as in Thuja, 



Taxodium, Glyptostrobus and Tamarisk. 

 Clados, a branch, in composition Clado. 

 Clathratus, latticed like a grating. 

 Clavate, club-shaped, becoming gradually 



thicker towards the top. 

 Claw, the narrow base of some petals, corre- 



.sponding to the petiole c(f leaves. 

 Cleft, divided to about the middle. 

 Clinandrium, the part of the column of 



Orchids bearing the anther. 

 Clinanthium, the common receptacle of the 



flowers of Compositse. 

 Cline, a bed, in composition Clin, used in re- 

 ference to parts on which the floral organs 



are inserted. 

 Cloves, applied to ! young bulbs, as in the 



Onion. 

 Clypeate, having the shape of a buckler, 

 Coccidium, a rounded conceptacle in Alga 



without pores, and containing a tuft of 



spores. 

 Coccus and Coccum, applied to the portions 



composing the dry elastic fi-uit of Euphor- 



biacese. 

 Cochleae, a kind of aestivation, in which a 



helmet-shaped part covers all the others in 



the bud. 

 Cochlearifoem, shaped like a spoon. 

 Ccelospeem^, seeds with the albumen curved 



at the ends. 

 Coherent, cohesion of part in the same ver- 

 ticil, as sepals, petals, or stamens. 

 CoLEORHiZA, a sheath covering the radicles of 



a monocotyledonous embryo. 

 Collateral, placed side by side, as in the 



case of some ovules. 

 Collenchym a, the inter - cellular substance 



which unites cells. 

 CoLLUM, neck, the part where the plumule and 



radicle of the embryo unite. 



