GLOSSARY. 



"lorolldceous, Corolltne : like or belonging to a corolla. 



Confna: a coronet or crown; an appendage at the top of the claw of some 



petals, as Silene and Soapwort, or of the tube of the corolla of Hound's- 



Tongue, &c. 

 Coronate: crowned; furnished with a crown. 

 Cortical: belonging to the bark (cortex). 

 Corymb : a sort of flat or convex flower-cluster. 

 Corymbose : approaching the form of a corymb, or branched in that way ; 



arranged in corymbs. 

 Costa : a rib ; the midrib of a leaf, &c. Costate : ribbed. 

 Cotyledons : the first leaves of the embryo. 

 Cratiriforrn : goblet-shaped ; broadly cup-shaped. 

 Creeping (stems) : growing flat on or beneath the ground and rooting. 

 CrSmocarp : a half-fruit, or one of the two carpels of Umbellifera?. 

 Crenate, or Crenelled: the edge scalloped into rounded teeth. 

 Crested, or Cristate : bearing any elevated appendage like a crest. 

 Cribrose : pierced like a sieve with small apertures. 

 Crown : see corona. 



Crowning: borne on the apex of anything. 

 Crtlciate, or Cruciform : cross-shaped, as the four spreading petals of the 



Mustard, and all the flowers of that family. 

 Crustaceous : hard, and brittle in texture ; crust-like. 

 CrypUtgamous, or Cryptogamic : relating to Cryptogamia. 

 Cuctllate: hooded, or hood-shaped, rolled up like » cornet of paper, or a 



hood (atcullus), as the spathe of Indian Turnip. 

 Culm : a straw ; the stem of Grasses and Sedges. 

 Cuneate, Cuneiform: wedge-shaped. 

 Cup-shaped: same as cyathiform, or near it. 

 Cdpule : a little cup ; the cup to the acorn of the Oak. 

 Cttpulate : provided with a cupule. 

 Cuspidate : tipped with a sharp and stiff point. 



Cut : same as incised, or applied generally to any sharp and deep division. 

 Cuticle : the skin of plants, or more strictly its external pellicle. 

 Cydthiform : in the shape of a cup, or particularly of a wine-glass. 

 Cycle: one complete turn of a spire, or a circle. 

 Cyclical: rolled up circularly, or coiled into a complete circle. 

 Cylindraceous : approaching to the 

 Cylindrical form ; as that of stems, &c, which are round, and gradually if at 



all tapering. 

 Ctfrnhczform, or Cymbiform : same as boat-shaped. 

 Cyme: a somewhat flat-topped cluster of centrifugal inflorescence. 

 Cymose : furnished with cymes, or like a cyme. 



Deca- (in composition of words of Greek derivation) : ten ; as 

 Decdgynous: with 10 pistils or styles. Decdndrous: with 10 stamens. 

 Deciduous: falling off, or subject to fall, said of leaves which fall in autumn, 



and of a calyx and corolla which fall before the fruit forms. 

 Declined: turned to one side, or downwards. 

 Decompound : several times compounded or divided. 

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