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VOCABULARY. 
Cla'vate. Club-shaped, larger at the 
top than the bottom. 
Clau'sus. Closed, shut up. 
Claw. The narrow part by which a 
petal is inserted. 
Cleft. Split or divided less than 
half way. 
Climb'ing. Ascending by means of 
tendrils, as grapes ; by leaf stalks, 
as the Clematis : by cauline radi 
cles or little fibrous roots, as the 
creeping American ivy. 
Club-shaped. See clavate. 
Clus'tered. See racemed. 
Cly'peate. Form of a buckler. See 
peltate. 
Coad'nate. United at the base. 
Coal'ed. With surrounding coats or 
layers. 
Coccin'eous. Scarlet coloured. 
Coch'leate. Coiled spirally, like a 
snail shell. 
Coc'cum. A grain or seed ; tricoc- 
cous, 3-seeded j &c. 
Cceru'leus. Blue. 
Coleop'tile. From koleos, an enve- 
lope, and ptilon a bud. 
Co'lcorrhize. From koleos, an en- 
velope, and riza, a root. 
Colli'nus. Growing on hills. 
Coloured. Different from green ; 
in the language of botany, green 
in the vegetable is not called a 
colour. White, which in reality 
is not a colour, is so called in bot- 
any. The primitive colours and 
their intermediate shades and gra- 
dations, are by botanists arranged 
as follows ; 
Water-colour, 
hyalinus. 
White, 
albus. 
Lead-colour, 
cinereus. 
Black, 
niger. 
Brown, 
fuscus. 
Pitch-black, 
ater. 
Yellow, 
luteus. 
Straw-colour, 
flavus. 
Flame-colour, 
fulvus. 
Red, 
rubex. 
Flesh-colour, 
incarnatus. 
Scarlet, 
coccineus. 
( Purple, purpureus. [reus. 
( Violet-colour, ceeruleo-purpu- 
< Blue, caeruleus. 
\ Green, viridis. 
White is most common in roofs, 
sweet berries and the petals of 
spring flowers. Black, in roots and 
seeds. Yellow, in anthers, and 
the petals of compound flowers. 
Red, in the petals of summer flow- 
ers and acid fruits. Blue and 
violet colour, in the petals. Green, 
in the leaves and calyx. 
Columella. That which connects 
the seeds to the inside of the per- 
icarp. The central pillar in a 
capsule. 
Column. The style of gynandrous 
plants; used for columella. 
Co'ma. A tuft of bracts on the top 
of a spike of flowers. 
Common. Any part is common, 
which includes or sustains several 
parts similar among themselves. 
Com pound. Made up of similar 
simple parts. 
flowers. Such as are in 
the class Syngenesia, having flor- 
ets with united anthers. 
leaf. When several lea- 
fets grow on one petiole. 
raceme. When several ra- 
cemes grow along the side of a 
peduncle. 
umbel. Having the pe- 
duncles subdivided into pedun- 
cles of lessei umbels. 
petiole. A divided leaf 
stalk. 
peduncle. A divided flow- 
er stalk. 
Compressed. Flattened. 
Con'care. Hollowed on one side. 
Conceptac'ulum. Single valued cap- 
sule. 
Conchol'ogy. The science which 
treats of shells. 
Cone. A scaly fruit like that of the 
pine. See Strobilum. 
Conedom'crale. Crowded together. 
Con ic. With a broad base, grad- 
