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Crenulate. Finely crenate. 
Cryptogame. Fructifying without stamens and pistils. 
Cucullate. Like a cowl or hood. 
Cuneate. Wedge-shaped enlarging upward. 
Cuneiform. Same as cuneate. 
Cupula. A cup-shaped involucre inclosing a nut as in 
the acorn. 
Cusp. <A sharp rigid point. 
Cyathiform. Cup-shaped. 
Cyme. A broid and flattish inflorescence, flowering from 
the centre outward. 
Decandria Ten stamens. 
Declined. Bent or curved.downward, 
Decompound. Rep:atedly compound or divided. 
Decumbent. Reclining at base, the summit ascending. 
Decurrent. Running down the stem. 
Decussate. In pairs or threes alternating at right angles. 
Deflexed. Bent or turned down abiuptly. 
Dehiscent. Opening regularly by valves, slits, ete. 
Deltoid. Broadly triangular like the Greek leiter Delta. 
Dentate Toothed. 
Denticulate. Minutely toothed. 
Diadelphia. Stamens in two sets or clusters. 
Disndria ‘Two stamens. 
Dichotomous. Forking regularly by pairs. 
Diclinic. Of separate sexes; unisexual. 
Dicotyledones. Having an embryo with two cotyledons. 
Didynamia. Having two long and two short stamens, 
Diffuse. Widely and loosely spreading or branched. 
Digitate. Fingered; spreading like the fingers. 
Digynia. Two pistils. 
Dimidiate. THalved, as though one-half were wanting. 
Dimorphous. Occurring in two forms. 
Diecia. Male and female flowers on separate plants. 
Distichous. Two ranked. 
Divaricate. Widely diverging. 
Dodecandria. Having twelve stamens. 
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