Calyx ; the outer whorl of leaflike organs forming the flower, 



usually green, called sepals. 

 Capillary ; like very slender threads. 

 Capitate ; growing in heads or close clusters ; having a knob 



like the head of a pin. 

 Capsular ; like a capsule. 



Capsule ; a dry usually many-seeded seed-vessel. 

 Carpel; the divisions of the ovary or capsule : sometimes oue 



carpel forms an ovary, being rolled up so that its edges 



meet. 

 Carpophore ; the stalk of the ovary or capsule within the ouinr 



whorls of the flower. 

 Catkin ; a deciduous unisexual spike of crowded flowers in 



which the perianths are replaced by bracts. 

 Caidine ; growing from the stem, not radical. 

 CeUular tissue; a collection of minute vesicles filled with fluid. 

 ^"■ffy i covered with minute membranous scales. 

 Channelled ; hollowed somewhat like a gutter. 

 Cilia ; hairs placed like eyelashes on the edge of any thing. 

 Ciliate; with cilia. 



Circinate ; rolled up from the top towards the base like a crosier. 

 Clavate; clubshaped. 

 Claw ; the narrow base of a petal. 

 Clawed; having a claw. 

 Clefi ; deeply cut, but not to the midiib. 

 Clubshaped ; a solid body which is slender at the base and gi'a- 



duaUy thickens upwards. 

 Cluster ; a kind of dense cyme ; also the patches of capsules in 



Ferns. 

 Cohering ; the attachment to each other of similar parts ; as the 



petals forming a gamopetalous corolla. 

 Collapsing ; shiinking together. The submersed and much- 

 divided leaves of aquatic plants often collapse into a form 



like a painter's pencil, when removed from the water. 

 Columella ; a cylindrical central placenta. 

 Commissitre ; the inner faces of the carpels (mencarps) of Qm- 



belliferse, by which they join. 

 Compound ; formed of many similar parts which ultimately and 



naturally separate from each other. A compound umhel 



has small umbels on its branches. 

 Compressed ; when flattened laterally. 

 Conduplicate ; folded upon each other lengthwise. 

 Cone ; fruit of a fir-tree. 

 Conical ; a solid figure narrowing to a point from a circular 



Connate ; when two similar parts, as leaves, are slightly con- 

 nected round the stem. 



