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GLOSSARY OF BOTANICAL TERMS. 
Caulis, a stem, a species of francos. 
Cernuus, nodding or hanging down its head. 
Cespitosa, plants which produce many stems from one root, and form a sur- 
face of turf or sod. 
Ciliatom, whose margin is guarded by parallel bristles, formed like the 
eye-lash. 
Circinalea, Julia, a hoop or ring, a term of foliation, expressive of the 
leaves within the gemma, being rolled spirally downward. 
Circumscissa captula , cut transversely, as in anagallis. 
Cirrhiferus pcdunciilis, a peduncle bearing a tendril, as in vitis. 
Cirrhosum folium, a leaf that terminates in a tendril, as iu gloriosa. 
Cirrhjis, a clasper, or tendril, one of the fulcra of plants. 
Classes, a class defined by Liunauis to be an agreement of several genera 
in the parts of fructification, according to the principles of nature distin- 
guished by art. 
Clavatus petiolus, pedunculus, when the foot-stalk of the leaf or flower is 
club-shaped, tapering from the base to its apex. 
Clavicula, a little key, a tendril. 
Clausa corolla, when the neck of the corolla is close shut in with valves. 
Coaduualai, to gather together, an order of plants in thefragmenta method! 
naturalis of Linturus. 
Coarctati rami, close together, opposed to Divericatus. 
Cochleatmn legumen, a pod like the shell of a snail, as in medicago. 
Coloratura folium, coloured, when leaves which are generally green, are 
of a different colour. 
Colnmnelia, a little ('0111010, the substance that passes through the capsule, 
and connects the several partitions and seeds. 
Cohnnnil’eri, pillar-shaped, an order of plants in the fragmenta metkodi 
naturalis of Linnaeus. 
Coma, a bush, or head of hair, a species of fulcra, composed of large 
bractsra, which terminates the stalk, as in lavatidula, salvia, dice. 
Communis gemma, regards the contents of the gemma, containing both 
flower and fruit. 
Communis calyx, when a cup contains both receptacle and flower. 
Cotnosa', a head of hair, an order of plants in the fragmenta method! na- 
turalis of Liumrus. 
Cotnosa radix, the fibres which put forth at the base of a bulbous root, re- 
sembling a head of hair. 
Compaction /ofc'/on, when the leaf is of a compact and solid substance. 
Completes jlos, having a perianthium and corolla. 
Composites caulis, a compound stem, diminishing as they ascond. 
Coiupositiim/olfKin, when the petiole hears more than one leaf, of which 
are the following species, viz. articulation, digitatum, conjugatuin, 
pedatum, pinuatum decomposition, siipra-deconipositum. 
Compositi, an order of plants in the fragmenta method! naturalis of Linnaeus. 
Compressus, caulis, folium, a leaf resembliug a cylinder compressed on the 
opposite sides. 
Concavmn folium, hollowed, the margin forms an arch with the disk. 
Conceptaculum, conceptacle or receiver, a pericarpium of a single valve, 
which opens on the side lengthways, and has not the seeds fastened to it. 
Conduplicatnni/o/iVm, doubled together, when the sides of the leaf are pa- 
rallel, and approach each other. 
Confet ti rami, branches crowded together. 
Confertus virticillus Jlos, el folia, when flowers and leaves are formed into 
whoiies round the stalk, and are crowded together. 
Coufluentia/ofio, to flow together, as in the pinnated leaf, when the pinnae 
run into one anotlier. 
Conglobatus Jlos, when flow ers arc collected into globular heads. 
Conglomerates Jlos, flowers irregularly crowded together. 
Congesta umbella, flowers collected into a spherical shape, as in the allium. 
Coniea scabrities, a species of cetaceous scabritics, scarce visible to the 
naked eye, on the surface of plants, formed like cones. 
