GLOSSARIAL INDEX. 
Capsule, a dry fruit containing several seeds. 
Capsuliform, ehaped like a capsule. 
Carina, shaped like the keel of a boat ; the lower 
petals of a pea flower. 
Cariopsidz, a 1-celled, 1-seeded, superior inde- 
hiscent pericarp, adhering to the proper inte- 
guments of the seed which it contains. 
Carpel, an individual part of a compound fruit. 
Carpophore, a receptacle bearing only the ova- 
rium. 
Cartilaginous, gristly: a cartilaginous leaf has 
the edge strengthened by a tough rim of a sub- 
stance different from that of the disk. 
Cathkin. See Ament. 
Cer ebriform, having an irregular brain-like ap- 
pearance, as the kernel of a walnut. 
Channeled, having a channel. 
Chartaceous, having the consistence of paper. 
Citie, hairs resembling those of the eyelash. 
Ciliate, surrounded with hairs, as the eyelid is 
with eyelashes. 
Cinereous, grey, or ash-coloured. 
Cirrhose, terminating in a tendril. 
Clavate, club-shaped ; the thick end uppermost. 
Claw, the inserted, or narrow end, of a petal. 
Cloven, divided into two parts. 
Club-shaped, having the thick end uppermost. 
Coarctaté, pressed together. 
Cohering, connected. 
Collateral, parallel ; side by side. 
Column, the column in a capsule is the part to 
which the seeds are attached: when the fila- 
ments are combined into a solid body, they are 
sald to be columned. 
Comose, covered with small tufts of hairs called 
coma. 
Compound, aterm used in botany to express the 
union of several things in one. 
Concave, more or less hollow. 
Concrete, of one mass ; joined together. 
Conduplicate, twice folded. 
Conferruminated, so united as to be undistin- 
guishable. 
Conglomerate, heaped, or irregularly crowded. 
Conical, cone-shaped. 
Conjugate, joined by pairs: a pinnate leaf is con- 
jugate when it has but one pair of leaflets. 
Connectivum, the cellular texture which connects 
several compartments, as in some anthers. 
Connivent, lying close together. 
‘Conoid, shaped like a cone. 
Contorted, twisted. : 
Convex, the reverse of concave: used in opposi- 
tion to that term. 
Convolute, rolled together. 
Cordate, heart-shaped ; in the outline resembling 
that of a heart in cards. 
Cordate-ovate, heart-shaped, rounded at the apex 
into an egg-shaped form. 
Corditorm. See Cordate 
Coriaceous, leathery , thick and tough. 
Cornute, horn-shaped ; of a horny nature. 
Corolla, the inner envelope of a flower. : 
Corpuscle, a smail body ; a particle of anything. 
Corymb, a kind of umbel with the stalks of the 
outer flowers longer than those of the centre, 
so as to form a level head. 
Corymbose, having the form of a corymb. . 
Cotyledons, leaves enclosed in the seed, which 
serve to elaborate the sap before the expansion 
of the true leaves, . 
Creeping, extending horizontally on the surface 
of the ground, and rooting at the joints. 
Crenate, scolloped ; having round notches. 
Crescent-shaped, having the form of a crescent, or 
half-moon. 
Crest, a tufted, or fringed, appendage: a stamen 
is crested when the filament projects beyond 
the anther, and becomes dilated. 
Crested, having a crest. 
Crisped, curled. : 
Cruciform, cross-shaped: a cruciform flower 
consists of four petals placed in opposite direc- 
tions. 
Cucullate, curved inwards; of a cowl or hood 
like appearance. 
Cuneate, wedge-shaped. 
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Cuneate-lanceolate, a form between wedge-shaped 
and lanceolate. 
Cuneate-linear, a wedge-shaped leaf, which is 
long and narrow. : 
Cuneate-oblong, wedge-shaped and oblong. 
Cuneate-obovate, a form between wedge-shaped 
and obovate. ' 
Cup-shaped, having a cuplike appearance, as the 
cup of an acorn. 
Cupule, a cup, as of the acorn. 
Cupular, shaped like a cup. * 
Cuspidate, suddenly terminating in a point ; spear- 
pointed. 
Cuticle, the skin, or epidermis. 
Cylindrical, cylinder-shaped, round. 
Cymc, a kind of umbel with the stalks of the 
outer flowers shorter than those in the centre. 
Cymose, flowering in cymes. 
D. 
Date-shaped, resembling the date in form. 
Decandrous, having 10 stamens. 
Deciduous, falling off; a tree is said to be de- 
ciduous when it does not retain its leaves 
through the winter. 
Declinute, bending downwards. 
Decompound, a leaf is decompound when it is 
twice or thrice pinnate. 
De-umbent, lying down on the ground. 
Decurrent, running down : a leaf extended down 
the stem is decurrent. 
Decussate, leaves are decussate when they grow 
in pairs, and alternately cross each other, 
Deflered, bent downwards. 
Dehiscent, opening naturally. 
Deltvid, shaped like the Greek A. 
Dentate, marginal teeth-like incisions. 
Dentato-serrate, having the margin divided into 
incisions, resembling the teeth of a saw. 
Denticulate, having the margins finely and slightly 
toothed. 
Diaphanous, semi-transparent, like horn. 
Dichotomous, branching in pairs; forked. 
Didymous, twin. 
Didynamous, having two long stamens and two 
short ones in the same flower. 
Diffuse, widely spread; scattered. 
Digitaie, fingered ; shaped like the hand spread 
open. 
Dilated, widened. 
Dimidiate, divided into two halves. 
Dicecious, a plant is said to be dicecious, when the 
male flowers are produced on one individual, 
and the female ones on another. 
Discoid, furnished with a disk, or something that 
may be compared to a disk. 
Disk, the fleshy annular process that surrounds 
the ovary in many flowers ; a receptacle ad- 
hering to the calyx ; also the surface of a leaf. 
Dissepiments, the partitions by which aseed-vessel 
is internally divided into cells 
Distichous, two-ranked or two-rowed, produced 
in opposite rows. : 
Divavicate, spreading widely in different direc- 
tions. 
Diverging, going far from one point. 
Dorsal, situated upon the back. 
Drupuaceous, like a drupe. 
Drupe, a fruit consisting of a fleshy sustance 
enclosing a hard stone, as the cherry. 
E. 
Ear-formed, having somewhat the appearance of 
ap ear. 
Eccentrically, disposed irregularly ; 
from the centre. 
Echinate, covered with prickles, like a hedgehog. 
Egg-shaped, having the form of an egg, either in 
outline or otherwise. 
Elipites oval; twice as long as broad, and about 
ot equal roundness at both ends. 
Elliptic-lanceolate, a form between elliptic and 
lanceolate, 
Elliptic-oblong, oblong-ovate. 
Elongate, lengthened out. 
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