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Bulb ; a luaf-bnd with fleshy scales, usually placed underground. 
Bulhiferous ; bearing bulbs on its stem. 
Bulbiike ; resembling a h\x\h in appearance, but .solid. 
Bulbous ; having radical bulbs. 
Bulbous hairs have a round swelling at their base. 
Ccespitose ; growing in tufts from the root. 
Cab/d' ; the outer whorl of leaflike organs forming the flower, 
usually green, called sepals. 
Capillary ; like very slender threads. 
Capitate ; growing in heads or close clusters ; having a knob 
like the head of a pin. 
Capsular ; like a cajisule. 
Capsule ; a dry usually many-seeded seed-vessel. 
Carpel ; the divisions of the ovary or capsule : .sometiines 
one carpel forms an ovary, being rolled up so that its 
edges meet. 
Carj-iopkore ; the stalk of the ovary or capsule within the 
outer whorls of the flower. 
Catkin ; a deciduous unisexual spike of crowded flowers in 
which the perianths are replaced by bracts 
Caiiline ; growing from the stem, not radical. 
Cellular tiss^te ; a collection of minute vesicles filled with fluid. 
Chaffy ; covered with minute membranous scales. 
Channelled; hollowed somewhat like a gutter. 
Cilia ; hairs placed like eyelashes on the edge of any thing. 
Ciliate ; with cilia. 
Circinate ; rolled up from the top towards the base like a 
crosier. 
Clavate ; clubshaped. 
Claw I the narrow base of a petal. 
Clawed ; having a claw. 
Cleft ; deeply cut, but not to the midrib. 
Clubshaped ; a long solid body which is .slender at the base 
and gradually thickens upwards. 
C^iisfer ; a kind of dense cyme; also the patches of capsules 
in Ferns. 
Coesiojis ; with a fine pale-blue bloom. 
Cohering ; the attachment to each other of similar parts ; as 
the petals forming a gamopetalous corolla. 
Collapsing ; shrinking together. The submersed and much- 
divided leaves of aquatic plants often collapse into a form 
like a painter's pencil, when removed from the water. 
Columella ; a cylindrical central placenta. 
Commissure ; the inner faces of the carpels (mericarps) of 
Umbelliferae, by which they join. 
