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GLOSSABY. 
Connivent ; converging. 
Constricted ; nan-owed at some point as if by the pressure of a 
string. 
Contiguous petals touch or overlap by their edges. 
Converging ; their points gradually approaching. 
Convolute ; rolled together lengthwise. 
Cordate ; ovate, acute, with two rounded lobes at the base ; like 
the figure of the heart on cards : a cordate-based leaf is ot 
any shape, but has the two lobes at its base. 
Coriaceous ; leathery ; firm, dry, tough. 
C&rm ; a fleshy bulblike, but solid, not scaly, underground stem. 
Corneous ; like horn. 
Corolla ; the whorl of floral leaves between the calj'x and 
stamens, usually coloured, called petals. 
Corymb ; a raceme with the peduncles becoming graduallj' 
shorter as they approach the top, so that all the flowed 
are about on a level. 
Corymbose ; in the form of a corymb. 
Cotyledons ; the seed-lobes, often fonning the first leaves of the 
plant. 
Crenate ; \s-ith rounded marginal teeth. "WTien these ai-e again 
crenate, the whole is doubly crenate : not bicrenate, which 
means having two such teeth. 
Crenatures ; the blunt rounded teeth of a crenate leaf. 
Crenulate ; minutely crenate. 
Crested; having an appendage like a crest. 
Crmoned ; having an appendage on the upper side at the base of 
the limb, as some petals. 
Cruciform ; four parts, as petals, arranged so as to form a cross. 
Crustaceans ; hard, thin and brittle. 
Cuneate ; like a wedge, but attached by its point 
Cuspidate ; abrupt, but with a point staiting suddenly from the 
middle of its end. 
Cuticle ; the external skin. 
Cylindrical ; nearly in the fonn of a cylinder. 
Cyme ; inflorescence formed of a terminal flower, beneath which 
are lateral branches each having a tenninal flower and 
lateral branches again similarly di\'iding, and so on. 
A globose cyme has flowers so placed as to form a globose 
mass. A scorpioid cyme produces only the external branch 
of each pair, except the first. 
Cymose ; arranged in a cyme. 
Deciduous ; falling ofi". 
Declining ; straight, but pointing downwards. 
Decumbent; lying on the ground, but tending to rise at the end. 
Dccurrent ; when the limb of a leaf is prolonged down the stem 
below the point of attachment of the midrib. 
