The G I. O 5 
CON NI VENT, approaching 
or inclining. 
CONTORTED, twilled like 
a fcrew. 
CORIACEOUS, like leather. 
CORNICULATED,hardiike 
a horn. 
COROLLULA, a 
la. 
CORONATED, having a 
crown. 
CORYMBUS, or CORYM- 
BOSE, a kind of a fpike, the 
flowers of which, have each its 
proper fmall pedicle or partial 
foot-llalk railed to a proportion- 
able height. 
COTYLEDONS, fide Jobes 
of the feed of a porous fubftance 
and periihable, or feminal leaves. 
CRENATED, leaves whofe 
edges arc indented contiguous to 
one another and are neither turn- 
ed towards the point nor bafe, 
are faid to be crenated. 
CRENULATED, the fame 
as crenated* 
CRUCIFORM, in the form 
of a crofs, crofs-lhaped dowers 
difpofed in the fhape of a crofs, 
as in the clafs of Tetradynarnia. 
CUCULLATED, Ihaped like 
a hood or cone. 
CUSPIDATED, is faid of a 
leaf whofe apex refembies the 
point of a fpear or lance. 
D. 
D ecagonal, having ten 
angles. 
DECEM-STRIATED, having 
ten furrows. 
DECIDUOUS, falling away 
with the flower. 
DECOMPOSITE, is faid 
when the petiolus once divided 
joins feveral fmall leaves. 
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DECOMPOUND, exprelTes a 
leaf the common petiole of which 
divides itfelf twice before it is 
furniflicd with leaves. 
DECUMBENT, is faid when 
the piftil and Jiamina decline to- 
wards the lower fide. 
DECURRENT, a leaf which 
adheres to the flalk or branch 
without any pedicle and v.hich 
has its lower part extended and 
running along the branch, 
DEFLEX, bent a little down- 
wards. 
DELTOID, having four an- 
gles whereof thofe of the fummit 
are further dillant from the cen- 
ter than thofe of the fides. 
DENTICULATED, having 
fmall dents. 
DIADELPHOUS, is faid of 
plants v/hofe ftamina adhere to- 
gether, forming two diflimilar 
bodies, the one above the pijlil 
the other furrounding it. 
DICHOTOMOUS, having 
branches divided two ways, 
DIDYMOUS, fignifles dou- 
ble and is generally faid of thofe 
a?ztherce that come by pairs on 
each filament. 
DIFFUSE, when the branches 
of the flalk fpread different ways. 
DIGITATED LEAF, means 
a compound leaf, com po fed of a 
number of fimple fmall leaves, 
placed, regularly on a common 
petiole, tho’ llridly fpeaking there 
mufl be more than four fmall 
leaves to make a digitated leaf^ 
DIGITATO-PARTITE, di- 
vided partly in the fiiape of the 
fingers. 
DILATED, widened or ex- 
tended. 
DIOICOUS, having male and 
female flowerb ondiilinct plants, 
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