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BOTANICAL TERMINOLOGY. 



Caudex. A stem, or trunk. 



Caulescent. Having a stem. 



Cauline. Attached to the stem. 



Caulis. The stem, or trunk. 



Cell. A hollow cavity. The cavity 

 of an ovary or pericarp. 



Cellular tissue. A tissue composed 

 of small bladders or vesicles. 



Cellular plants. Those composed of 

 cellular tissue, always flowerless. 



Centrifugal Inflorescence. The flow- 

 ering of a cyme. 



Centripetal Inflorescence. The flow- 

 ering of a corymb. 



Cemuous. Drooping or bending 

 down. 



Chaff. The thin covering of the seeds 

 of grasses, &c. or the flower bracts 

 in compound flowers. 



Chalaza. The point of union of the 

 coats and nucleus of a seed. 



Chrorophylle. ) The coloured paren- 



Chromule. \ chyma of leaves. 



Cicatrix. The mark or scar left by 

 a leaf when it falls off. 



Ciliate. Edged with hairs, like eye- 

 lashes. 



Circinate. Coiled or rolled into a 

 ring. 



Circumscissile. Cut round ; opening 

 transversely. 



Circumscription. The general out- 

 line. 



Cirrhous. Having tendrils. 



Clasping. Where the base of a leaf 

 partly surrounds the stem. 



Class. The highest division of plants 

 in a system. 



Clavate. Club-shaped ; larger at one 

 end. 



Claiv. The lower narrow end of a 

 petal, by which it is affixed. 



Cleft. Partially split or divided. 



Climbing. Ascending by means of 

 tendrils, leaves, or spurious roots. 



Coadunate. Having united bases. 



Coarctate. Pressed together. 



Coccus. A grain or carpel of a com- 

 pound carpel. 



Cochleate. Coiled spirally, like a 

 snail-shell. 



Colcorhiza. Sheath of radicle in 

 endogens. 



Coloured. Any hue except green. 



Columella, A. permanent axile pla- 

 centa. 



Columnar. Having the form of a co- 

 lumn. 



Coma. A tuft of hairs at the apex of 

 a seed. 



Commissure. The inner face of a 

 mericarp; the joining of one part 

 with another. 



Common. That which sustains or- 

 gans or parts similar to each other. 



Comose. Having a coma. 



Complete. Having both floral enve- 

 lopes. 



Complicate. Folded together. 



Compound. A whole, formed of simi- 

 lar parts. 



Compressed. Flattened laterally. 



Conduplicate. Folded longitudinally 

 on itself. 



Cone. A collective fruit. See Strobile. 



Confluent. Running together. 



Conjugate. In pairs. 



Connate. Growing together at base. 



Connectivum. The prolongation of 

 a filament supporting the lobes of 

 an anther. 



Connivent. Convergent. 



Contorted. Twisted . 



Convolute. Rolled up into a cylinder. 



Cordate. Heart-shaped. 



Coriaceous. Leathery or parchment- 

 like. 



Cormophytes. Stem-growing plants. 



Cormus. An enlarged subterranean 

 base of a stem ; a solid bulb. 



Corolla. The inner floral envelope. 



Corrugated. Wrinkled. 



Cortex. The bark. 



Cortical. Having bark, or arising 

 from the bark. 



Corymb. An umbel-shaped raceme. 



Corymbose. Bearing corymbs. 



Costate. Ribbed. 



Cotyledons. Seed leaves. 



Cott/liform. A rotate corolla with an 

 erect limb. 



Creeping. Running along the sur- 

 face, or just under the surface of 

 the ground. 



Cremocarp. The fruit of umbellife- 

 rous plants. 



Crenate. Having rounded notches or 

 teeth. 



