BOTANICAL TERMS AND DEFINITIONS. 
CiLTATE, or Fringed, iCiliatum) applied to leaves, the edges of 
which are bordered with soft silky parallel hairs. 
ClMETER-SHAPED, vide ACINACIFORME. 
CiRROSE, {€irrosum) applied to leaves having a tendril growing 
from the tip. 
Cirrus, vide Tendril. 
Climbing, {Scandens) stems are called climbing when they mount 
up other bodies, (i. e. walls, trees, &c.) and support them- 
selves by means of their tendrils or adhesive fibres. 
Cloven, (Fissum) leaves are called cloven, when the margins of the 
segments and fissures are straight. 
Clubbed, (Clavatus) petioles are so called when they gradually 
grow thicker towards the top. 
Cluster, vide Raceme. 
Clustered, {Conferta) applied to leaves crowded together. 
Coloured, {Coloratum) applied to leaves, is intended to express 
any colour except green. 
Column, {Columella) the central point of union of the partitions in 
the seed-vessel, (i. e. in a capsule containing many cells) to 
which the seeds are usually attached. 
Complete Flower, (Flos complefMs) a flower furnished with both 
calyx and corolla. 
Compoun d, (Compositum) applied to leaves when they consist of two 
or more leaflets connected by a common foot-stalk; to 
flowers consisting of numerous florets, all sessile on a com- 
mon undivided receptacle, and enclosed in one continuous 
calyx or perianthiura; each floret is monopetalous and 
superior, i, e. each standing on a sohtary naked seed, or 
the rudiments of one, though not always perfected; the 
stamens are (with very few exceptions) five, and the anthers 
almost universally united into a cylinder; the number of 
florets vary, and they are also of two kinds, ligulate (shaped 
like a ribbon or strap) or tubular, cylindrical and five-cleft. 
Compressed, {Compressum) leaves are so called when flattened 
laterally. 
Concave, vide Hollow. 
Conduplicate, or Folded, {Conduplicatum) applied to leaves 
when the margins are brought together in a parallel 
direction. 
Cone, {StroUlus) a catkin hardened and enlarged into a seed vessel, 
as in the fir, cypress, &c. 
Conferta, vide Clustered. 
