566 GLOSSARY 
Cell. A cavity of an ovary or of an anther. 
Ciliate. Fringed with marginal hairs. 
Coma. A tuft of hairs at the end of some seeds. 
Comose. Bearing tufted hairs at the apex. 
Compound. Composed of similar parts forming one whole. 
Compressed. Flattened laterally. 
Connate. Similar structures more or less united. 
Corm. The swollen, fleshy, and solid base of a stem. 
Corolla. The inner floral leaves or petals, which may be distinct 
or more or less united. 
Corymb. A convex or flat-topped flower cluster with pedicels or 
rays arising from different points on the axis, and with the pro- 
gression of bloom from the margin inward. 
Crenate. Scalloped; having rounded teeth. 
Culm. The stem peculiar to grasses and sedges. 
Cyme. A convex or flattened flower cluster of Which the central 
flowers first unfold; the progression of bloom being toward the 
margin. 
Deciduous. Not persistent; falling away at the end of the growing 
period. ; 
Decumbent. Declining but with the end ascending. 
Decurrent (leaf). Extending down the stem below the insertion. 
Deflexed. Turned abruptly downward. 
Dehiscent. Opening regularly by valves, slits, or teeth. 
Depressed. Flattened vertically. 
Diffuse. Widely or loosely spreading. 
Diecious. Bearing staminate or male flowers on one plant, and 
fertile or pistillate flowers on another plant. 
Disk. In Composite, the tubular flowers of the head as distinct from 
the rays. 
Drupe. A fleshy or pulpy fruit having an inner portion of the pericarp 
hard and bone-like. 
Entire. Without divisions, lobes, or teeth. 
Exserted. Projecting beyond an envelope, as the stamens from a 
corolla. 
Fascicle. A close bundle or cluster. 
Fertile. Bearing fruit or seed. 
Filament. The part of a stamen which supports the anther; any 
thread-like body. 
Floret. A small flower, usually one of a head or a dense cluster. 
Follicle. A fruit consisting of a single carpel, opening by the ventral 
or inner suture. 
