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GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 



Clusiaceao, 400. 



Clustered : collected into a bunch. 



Clypeate : buckler-'shaped. 



Coacervale : heaped together. 



Coddunate : cohering ; united at the base 

 or farther. 



Coalescence^ 249. 



Coalescent : growing together. 



Coarctate : crowded togetlicr. 



Coated : composed of layers ; or fur- 

 nished with a rind. 



Cobwebbed, or cobwebhi/ : bearing long 

 hairs like cobweb or gossamer. 



Cocculus Indicus, 384. 



Coccus (pi. cocci) : anciently a berry; 

 now used for the closed carpels into 

 which many fruits split {.316), as 

 those of Euphorbia, fig. U43, 1145, 

 and Verbena, fig. 985. 



CocJtledrlfonn : shaped like a spoon [cocli- 

 lear). 



Cdchleiilo : like a snail-shell (cochlea). 



Cocoa-plum, 415. 



Ceelospe'rmons : i. c. hollow-seeded ; the 

 top and bottom incurved, as in Co- 

 riander-seed. 



Coffee, 433. 



Coherent : united together. 



Cohesion of parts, 250, &.C. 



Coteorhiz/i (root-sheath) : the sheath or 

 covering (belonging to the cotyle- 

 don or plumule) through wliich the 

 radicle of most Endogens bursts in 

 germination. 



Collar, colluni : the neck or line of junc- 

 tion between the primaiy stem and 

 root. 



Collective fruits, 318. 



Colocyntii, 423. 



Colored : of some other color than green. 



Columbo-root, 384, 457. 



Columella : the axis, or central column, 

 of a pod or spore-ease. 



Column : the united filaments of mon- 

 adelphous stamens, or the united 

 filaments and style in gynandrous 

 flowers; 281, fig. 468. 



Cohnnnnr : pillar-shaped. 



Coma : a tuft of any sort, especially a 

 tuft of hairs on a seed, 321, fig. 

 602 ; the whole head of a tree, &c. 



Comale, or comose : bearing a coma. 



Combrctaoese, 419. 



Commelynacese, or Commclinaceaj. 496. 



Cdmmissure: the line of junction of two 

 carpels ; used mostly in Umbcl- 

 liferce, 426. 



Common : used as " general," opposed 

 to partial. 



Cdmplanate: flattened. 



Comjikte flower : having all the kinds of 

 organs, 222, 238. 



Complicate : folded upon itself. 



Compositte, 435. 



Compound flower, 215, fig. 323-325, and 

 435, fig. 887, &c. 



Compound leaf: one composed of two or 

 more blades, 1 63. 



Compound pistil, 290. 



Compound spike, raceme, umbel, &e., 216.^ 



Compressed: flattened on two opposite 

 sides. 



Concentric layers of wood, 112, 123. 



Concliiform : shell-shaped. 



Concolored : all of one color. 



Condiiplicate ; folded together length- 

 wise, 144, 165. 



Cone: see Strobile, 319. 



Confl^ruminate : stuck together by their 

 adjacent faces, as the cotyledons of 

 Horsechestnut, 327. 



Conferted: crowded. 



Confluent : running together, or blended 

 into one. 



Conflirmed: similar to; or closely fitted 

 to, as the skin to the kernel of a 

 seed. 



Congested : crowded together. 



Conglobate : clustered into a ball. 



Conglomerate : thickly clustered. 



Coniferee, 479. 



Coniferous : cone-bearing. 



Conjugate: coupled; in single pairs. 



Conjugation, 332. 



Connate: imited or grown together from 

 the earliest state, 251. 



Connafe-per foliate, 166, fig. 294. 



Connective, connectivum : the part of the 

 anther connecting its two cells or 

 lobes, 281, 282. 



Conui'rent: converging. 



Conoidal: approaching a conical form. 



Consolidated : when unlike parts are 

 grown together. 



Consolidation, 250. 



Continuous : not inteiTupted. 



Contorted: tivisted, 272. 



Contortuplicaie : twisted and folded. 



Contracted : either narrowed or short- 

 ened. 



Contrary : opposite in direction to some- 

 thing it is compared with, as the 

 pod of Shepherd's Purse flattened 

 contrary to the partition. 



Cdnvohite (rolled up) or cdnvolutive aisti- 

 vation, 272, 



Cdnvolute vernation : rolled up length- 

 wise in the bud, 144. 



Convolvulaceaj, 454. 



Copaiva, 414. 



Copal, 414. 



Copalche-bark, 434. 



Cordate : heart-shaped ; shaped like a 

 heart as painted upon cards, the 



