GLOSSARY. 



Zorolldceous, CorolHne: like or belonging to a corolla. 



CorOna: a coronet or crown; an appendage at the top of the claw of some 



petals, as Silene and Soapwort, or of the tube of the corolla of Hound's- 



Tongue, &c. 

 CorOnate: crowned ; furnished with a crown. 

 Cdrtical : belonging to the bark (cortex). 

 C6rymb: a sort of flat or convex flower-cluster. 

 Corymb6se : approaching the form of a corymb, or branched in that way ; 



arranged in corymbs. 

 Costa : a rib ; the midrib of a leaf, &c. Costate : ribbed. 

 Cotyledons : the first leaves of the embryo. 

 Crateriform : goblet-shaped ; broadly cup-shaped. 

 Creeping (stems) : growing flat on or beneath the ground and rooting. 

 Cremocarp : a half -fruit, or one of the two carpels of Umbelliferae. 

 Crenate, or Crenelled : the edge scalloped into rounded teeth. 

 Crested, or Cristate : bearing any elevated appendage like a crest. 

 Cribrose: pierced like a sieve with small apertures. 

 Crown : see corona. 



Crowning: borne on the apex of anything. 

 Cruciate, or Cmciform : cross-shaped, as the four spreading petals of the 



Mustard, and all the flowers of that family. 

 Crustaceous: hard, and brittle in texture ; crust-like. 

 Cryptdgamous, or Cryptogamic : relating to Cryptogamia. 

 Cucullate: hooded, or hood-shaped, rolled up like a cornet of paper, or a 



hood (cucullus), as the spathe of Indian Turnip. 

 Culm : a straw ; the stem of Grasses and Sedges. 

 Cuneate, Cuneiform : wedge-shaped. 

 Cup-shaped : same as cyathiform, or near it. 

 Ctipule : a little cup ; the cup to the acorn of the Oak. 

 Ciipulate : provided witli a cupule. 

 Cuspidate : tipped with a sharp and stiff point. 



Cut : same as incised, or applied generally to any sharp and deep division. 

 Cuticle : the skin of plants, or more strictly its external pellicle. 

 Cyathiform : in the shape of a cup, or particularly of a wine-glass. 

 Cycle: one complete turn of a spire, or a circle. 

 Cyclical: rolled up circularly, or coiled into a complete circle. 

 Cylindraceous: approaching to the 

 Cylindrical form; as that of stems, &c, which are round, and gradually if at 



all tapering. 

 Cymbcpform, or Cymbiform: same as boat-shaped. 

 Cyme: a somewhat flat-topped cluster of centrifugal inflorescence. 

 Cymose : furnished with cymes, or like a cyme. 



Deca- (in composition of words of Greek derivation) : ten ; as 

 Decdgynous : with 10 pistils or styles. Decandrous: with 10 stamens. 

 Deciduous: falling off, or subject to fall, said of leaves which fall in autumn, 



and of a calyx and corolla which fall before the fruit forms. 

 Declined: turned to one side, or downwards. 

 Decompound : several times compounded or divided. 

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