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Crenulate. Finely crenate. 



Crested or Cristate. Having an ap- 

 pendage like the comb of a cock. 



Crown. The pappus or coma on 

 seeds. 



Cruciate or Cruciform. In the shape 

 of a cross. 



Cryptogamia. Flowerless plants. 



Cucullate. Hooded. 



Cucurbitaceous. Gourd or melon-like. 



Culm. The stem of the graminas. 



Cuneiform. Wedge-shaped. 



Cupule. A cup-shaped involucre of 

 imbricated bracts, as the cup of the 

 acorn. 



Curled. Where the periphery of a 

 leaf is too large for the disk, it be- 

 comes waved or curled. 



Curvinerved. Leaf nerves arising 

 from a prolongation of the petiole, 

 instead of the base. 



Cuspidate. With a sharp rigid point. 



Cuticle. The epidermis or outer skin 

 of a plant. 



Cyathiform. Goblet-shaped. 



Cylindric. A roll or shaft of equal 

 diameter throughout. 



Cyme. An umbel-like inflorescence, 

 but the pedicels are variously sub- 

 divided. 



Cymose. Being in cymes. Centrifugal. 



Cy mules. The floral whorls in the 

 Labiatse. 



Deciduous. Falling ofT at a stated 

 period. 



Declinate. Turned to one side. 



Decompound. Several times divided. 



Decumbent. Lying on the ground. 



Decurrent. When the margin of a 

 leaf, &c, is prolonged down a pe- 

 tiole or stem. 



Decussate. Crossed ; in pairs alter- 

 nately crossing. 



Deflected. Bent back. 



Dehiscence. Natural opening of cap- 

 sules. 



Deltoid. Having a triangular outline. 



Demersed. Submerged; underwater. 



Dentate. Toothed. 



Denticulate. With small teeth. 



Depressed. Flattened from above. 



Descending axis. The root. 



Dextrine. A soluble form of starch. 



Diadelphous. Having the filaments 

 in two parcels. 



Dia?idrous. Having two stamens. 

 Diastase. A product of germination 



in a seed. 

 Dichotomous. Successively forked. 

 Diclinous. When the stamens and 



pistils are in different flowers. 

 Dicoccous. Two grained, or with two 

 cocci. 



Dicotyledonous. Having two cotyle- 

 dons. 



Didymous. Twinned. 



Didynamous. Belonging to didy- 

 namia. 



Diffuse: Loosely spreading. 



Digitate. Fingered ; five leaves in- 

 serted in a spreading form, at the 

 end of a petiole. 



Digynous. Having two styles. 



Dimidiate. Halved. 



Dimerous. A whorl of two parts. 



Diazcious. Having the stamens on 

 one plant, and the pistils on an- 

 other. 



Discoid. Resembling a disk. 



Disk. The whole surface of a leaf, 

 or centre of compound flower. 



Dissected. Deeply gashed. 



Dissepiment. A partition. 



Distant. Situated at a distance from ; 

 remote. 



Distichous. In two opposite rows. 



Distinct. Separate, reverse of con- 

 nate or confluent. 



Divaricate. ■ Widely spreading. 



Diverging. Spreading out. 



Divided. Severed into two or more 

 parts. 



Dodecandrous. Having more than 

 ten and less than twenty stamens. 



Dolabriform. Axe-shaped. 



Dorsal. Fixed to the back. 



Dorsad suture. Outer suture of a 

 carpel. 



Dotted. Marked with dots. 



Downy. Having short, soft hairs. 



Drupe. A pericarp, with a hard nut 

 or stone covered by a sarcocarp. 



Drupaceous. Bearing drupes or 

 drupe-like. 



Ducts. Membranous vessels or tubes, 

 which do not unroll spirally. 



Dumose. Bushy. 



