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Bifid. Two-cleft. 
Bract. A more or less modified leaf subtending a 
flower or belonging to an inflorescence, or some- 
times cauline. 
Braceate. Having bracts. 
Caducous. Falling off very early. 
Calyculate. Having bracts around the calyx imita- 
ting an outer calyx. 
Campanulate. Bell-shaped; cup-shaped with a broad 
base. 
Canescent. Hoary with gray pubescence. 
Camtate. Shaped like a head; collected into a head or 
dense cluster. 
Capsule. A dry dehiscent fruit composed of more than 
one carpel; the spore-case of Hepaticae, etc. 
Carpel. A simple pistil, or one member of a com- 
pound pistil. 
Cartitaginous. Of the texture of cartilage; firm and 
tough. 
Caudate. Having a slender tail-like appendage. 
Caudex. The persistent base of an otherwise annual 
herbaceous stem. 
Caulescent. Having a manifest stem. 
Cespitose. Growing in tufts; forming mats of turf. 
Ciliate. Marginally fringed with hairs. 
Cinerous. Ash-color. 
Circumscissile. Dehiscing by a_ regular transverse 
circular line of divsion. 
Clavate. Club-shaped; gradually thickened upward. 
Cleft. Cut about to the middle. 
Comose. Furnished with a como or tuft of hars. 
Connate. United congenitally. 
Cordate. Heart-shaped with the point upward. 
Corymb. A flat-topped or convex open flower-cluster, 
in the stricter use of a word equivalent to a contract- 
ed raceme and progressing in its flowering from the 
margin inward. 
Corymbose. In corymbs, or corymb-like. 
Crenate. Dentate with the teeth much rounded. 
Crown. An inner appendage to a petal, or to the throat 
of a corolla. 
Cucullate. Hooded or hood-shaped; cowled. 
Cuneate. Wedge-shaped; triangular with the acute 
angle downward. 
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