GLOSSARY. 
3d 
Calyx ; the outer whorl of leaflike organs fonning the flowei-, 
usually green, called sepals. 
Capillary ; like very slender threads. 
Cupitatc ; growing in heads or close clusters ; having a knob 
like the head of a pin. 
Capsular ; like a capsule. 
Capsule ; a dry usually many-seeded seed-vessel. 
Carpel ; the divisions of the ovary or capsule : sometimes one 
carpel forms an ovary, being rolled up so that its edges 
meet. 
Carpophore ; the stalk of the ovary or capsule within the outer 
whorls of the flower. 
Catkin ; a unisexual spike of closely crowded flowera in which 
the perianths are replaced by bracts. 
Cellular tissue ; 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 anything. 
Ciliate ; with cilia. 
Circinate ; rolled up from the top towards the base like' a crosier. 
Clavate; clubshaped. 
Claw ; the narrow base of a petal. 
Clawed ; having a claw. 
Cleft ; deeply cut, but not to the midrib. 
Clubshaped ; a solid body which is slender at the base and gra- 
dually thickens upwards. 
Cluster ; a kind of dense cyme ; also the patches of capsules in 
Ferns. 
Cohering ; the attachment together of similar parts, as the petals 
forming a monopetalous coroUa. 
Collapsing ; shrinking together. The submersed and much- 
divided leaves of aquatic plants often coUapse into a fonn 
like a painter's pencil, when removed from the water. 
Columella ; a cylindrical central placenta. 
Commissure ; the inner faces of the carpels (mericarps) of Um- 
belliferae, by which they join. 
Compound; formed of many sunilar parts which ultimately and 
naturally separate from each other. A compound umbel 
has small umbels on its branches. 
Compressed ; when flattened laterally. 
Conduplicate ; folded upon each other lengthwise. 
Cone ; fruit of a fir-tree. 
Conical; a solid figure narrowing to a point from a circular 
base. 
Cmnate ; when two similar parts, as leaves, are slightly con- 
nected round the stem. 
Connective ; the continuation of the filament between the cells 
of an anther. 
