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Glossary of Botanical Terms. 



Calcarate ; furnished with a spur. 

 Calculated; furnished with an addi- 

 tional outer calyx. 



Campanulas ; bell-shaped. 

 Canipestris; growing wild. 

 Canescent; whitish and hoary. 

 Cancellated ; filled with cells. 

 Capitate ; growing in heads. 

 Capillary ; hair-like. 

 Capsule ; a little chest. 

 Carrina : a keel; applied to butterfly 



flowers. 

 Carnose; of a fleshy consistence. 

 Carpel ; a term used in dividing the 



fruit. 

 Caudate; furnished with a tail. 

 Caudex ; the upper part of a root which 



gives rise to a stem. 

 Catiline; growing on a stem . 

 Ciliate ; fringed with hairs. 

 Cinereous; ash color. 

 Cirrhose ; bearing a tendril. 

 Cereal ; applied to fruits of which bread 



is made. 

 Clavate ; club-shnped. 

 Coadunate ; united at base. 

 Coarcate ; crowded. 

 Cochleate ; coiled spirally, like a snail 



shell. 

 Coccum; a seed or grain. 

 Collinus; growing on hills. 

 Colors; any thing that differs from green 



is called in botany a color. 

 As, Water color; Hyalinus. 



"White ; Albus. 



Lead color or ash ; cinereous. 



Black ; uiger. 



Brown ; fuscus. 



Pitch Black ; ater. 



Yellow ; Luteus 



Straw color ; flavus. 



Flame color ; fulvus. 



Red ; rubex. 



Flesh color ; incarnatus. 



Scarlet : coccineus. 



Purple ; purpureus. 



Violet color ; ceruleo-purpureus. 



Blue; ceruleus. 



(ireen ; Viridis. 

 Columella ; a central pillar. 

 Coma ; a tuft of bracts on the top of a 

 spike of flowers. 



Connate; opposite, with the bases grow- 

 ing in one. 

 Comment : convergent. 

 Contorted ; twisted. 

 Cortical ; belonging to the bark. 

 Coriaceous ; leathery, tough, and thick 

 Corneous; horny. 

 Costate ; ribbed. 

 Crenate ; scallopped 

 Cribriform; full of holes like a seive. 

 Crested ; resembling a cock's cottib. 

 Crinitus; long-haired. 

 Cuculate ; hooded, or cowled. 

 Cucurhitaceous ; cucumber-like plants. 

 Culm ; the et< m of grasses. 

 Cupule; a cup, as tin acorn. 

 Cypsele ; a little chest. 

 Deciduous ; falling off in the usual season 

 Declined ; tending downwards. 

 Decumbent ; leaning upon the ground. 

 Decurrent; when the edges of a leaf run 



down a stem or stalk. 

 Decussated ; in pairs, crossing each other. 

 Deflected ; bent oil'. 

 Dehiscent; cracking oi>en, as in capsular 



seed vessels. 

 Dentate; toothed. 

 Denticulate ; minutely toothed. 

 Demersus; under water. 

 Dichotomous ; forked, dividing into two 



equal branches. 

 Digitate ; hand, or fringe-shaped. 

 Dimidiate ; half. 

 Discord ; disk covered with florets, but 



without rays. 

 Disk ; the top. 

 Dissepiment; the partition of an internal 



wall of a capsule. 

 Divaricate ; diverging so far as to turn 



backward. . 

 Divergent; spreading. 

 Dorsal ; belonging to the back. 

 Drooping; more of a downward tendency 



than nodding. 

 Dulcis; sweet 

 Dumosus ; bushy. 

 Duplex; double. 

 Drupaceous; resembling drupes. 

 Ecbinate; beset with prickles. 

 Eburneus ; ivory white. 

 Ecostate ; without nerves or ribs. 

 Emarginate ; with a notch on the end. 



