INDEX 
Collar, junction of root and shoot 
Collards (Am.), form of cabbage 
Collateral branches, 42 
Collecting, 13; -tins, 11 
Collective fruit, 107 
Collet, collar 
Colleters, glandular hairs 
Collinus (Lat.), on low hills 
Colocynth, Citrullus 
Colonist, weed of cultivated land, 
rare elsewhere 
Colophony, 199 
Colour (flower), 100-103, 89, 184, 
Boraginaceae 
Colt’s foot, Tussilago , (W, I.) 
Pothomorpha 
Columbine, Aquilegia 
Columella, central axis of fruit, as 
in Geranium , Thuja 
Column, Orchidaceae 
Colza, 20c, Brassica 
Coma, a tuft of hairs 
Comfrey, Syniphytum 
Commensalism, living together of 
two beings, for mutual benefit 
Commissure (Umbelliferae), face 
by which carpels cohere 
Common receptacle, 63 
Communis (Lat.), social, general 
Community (Cl.), a mixture of 
individuals of two or more species 
Comose, hairy in tufts 
Comparison in morphology, 27 
Compass-plants, 49, Lactuca , Sil- 
phium 
Compital, when veins intersect 
at an angle 
Complanate, flattened 
Complete flower, 76 
Complicate, folded on itself 
Compound leaf, 51 
Compressed, flattened 
Concealment of honey, 90 seq. 
Conceptacle, reproductive cavity 
Concinnus (Lat.), neat 
Concolor (Lat.), of uniform colour 
Concrescence, 30, 42, 70, 76, 80 
Concrete, growing together 
Condensed stem, 44 
Condiments, 205 
Conduplicate, 53, Crucifer ae 
665 
Cone, 55, 61, Coniferae ; -flower 
(Am.), Rudbeckia 
Confertus (Lat.), crowded 
Confluent, blending 
Congenital, grown to 
Congo pea, Cajanus 
Conifer, Coniferae 
Conjugate, coupled 
Connate, 51 
Connective, 77 
Connivent, converging 
Contabescent (anther), shrivelling 
Continuation shoot, Thelygonum 
Contorted aestivation, 75 
Contortoduplicate, twisted and 
folded 
Contrayerva (W. I.), Aristolochia 
Convol., convolute, 53, 75 
Convolvulus, Calystegia 
Coondi, Carapa 
Copaiva tree (W. I.), Copaifera 
Copal, 199, Agathis, Copaifera , 
Hymenaea , Trachylobiu?n \ 
Indian-, Vateria\ Manila-, 
Agathis ; Kauri-, Agathis 
Copper-beech, Fagus 
Copra, Cocos 
Copse, 185, 188 
Coquito-palm, Jubaea 
Cor., corolla 
Coral-berry (Am.), Symphoricar- 
pus ; -root, Corallorhiza\ -tree, 
Erythrina 
Coratto, keratto 
Cord-grass, Spartina 
Cordate, heart-shaped, 52 
Cordifolius (Lat.), cordate-leaved 
Coriaceous, leathery, 53 
Coriander seed, Coriandrum 
Cork, 43, Quercus ; -tree, Indian, 
Millingtonia hortensis L. f. ; 
-wood, Ochroma , (Am.) Leit- 
neria , (W. I.) Anona palustris , 
&c. 
Corm, 152, 153, Bowiea 
Cormophyte, Phanerogam or 
Vascular Cryptogam 
Corn, in England, wheat, in 
America, Indian corn ; broom-, 
Sorohum ; Chinese (W. I.), 
Setaria italica Beauv. ; -cockle, 
