98 PBAGTIGAL BOTANY. 



Caclescemt : furnished with a conspicuous stem. 



Cauline : borne on the stem, as cauline leaves. 



Centrifugal Inflorescence : that sort of inflorescence in which the 

 flowering proceeds from the centre outward, or from the top 

 downward. 



Centripetal Inflorescence : that sort of inflorescence in which the 

 flowering proceeds from the periphery inward, or from below up- 

 ward. 



Cernuous : nodding. 



Chaff : thin, little scales or bracts on the receptacle of Composites. 



CuAFFr : furnished with chafi' (scales, pales). 



Channelled : hollowed out like a gutter. 



Chartaceods : papery. 



Ciliate : beset on the margin with hairs like the eyelashes. 



Circumscissile: dividing in 2 parts by a circular, transverse line, as 

 the pod of Anagallis. We speak, therefore, of a circumscissile 

 dehiscence. 



CiRRHosE : tendril-bearing. 



Clavate : club-shaped. 



Claw : the stalk-like base of some petals. 



Coalescent : growing together. 



Cobwebby : bearing hairs like cobvrebs. 



Column : a tube formed by the united stamens, as in Mallows ; or a 



cylindrical body formed by the union of stamens and pistils, as 



in the Orchids. 



CoMosE : tufted, bearing a tuft of hairs. 



Commissure : the line of junction of 2 carpels, as in the fruit of the 

 Umbelworts. 



Compound leaf: a leaf-stalk, bearing several sessile or stalked 

 leaflets, or a leaf-stalk, bearing leaf-stalks, which give rise to seve- 

 ral secondary leaflets, etc. There are palmately- and pinnately- 

 compound leaves. 



Complete flowers : flowers with calyx, corolla, stamens, and (1 or 

 more) pistils. ^ 



Conduplicate : see Embryo. 



Cone : the multiple fruit of Conifers ; a term rarely applied to other 

 multiple fruits. 



Congeries : a collection of parts or organs. 



Connate : grown together primaril3'. 



CoNNECTiLE Or CONNECTIVE : the part of the stamens connectin"' the 

 2 cells of the anther. ' ° 



Contiguous : touching ; meeting at the surface or border. 



