GLOSSARY. 
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Blade. The limb or expanded portion of a leaf. 
Bract. A modified leaf subtending a flower or belonging to an inflores- 
cence, or sometimes cauline. 
Bracteate. Having bracts. 
Bracteolate. Having bractlets. 
Bracteose. With many and conspicuous bracts. 
Bractlet. A secondary bract, as one on the pedicel of a flower. 
Bristle. A stiff hair. 
Bud. The incipient state in the growth of a stem or branch ; an unex- 
panded flower. 
Bulb. A subterranean leaf-bud, with fleshy scales or coats. 
Bulbiferous. Bearing bulbs. 
Bulblet. A small bulb, especially when in the axil of a leaf. 
Bulbous. Having the character of a bulb. 
Caducous. Falling off very early. 
Calcarate. Having a spur. 
Callus. An indurated, hardened surface. 
Calyculate. Having bracts around the calyx, imitating an outer calyx. 
Calyptra. The membraneous hood covering the capsule of mosses. 
Calyx. The outer perianth of the flower. 
Campanulate. Bell-shaped; cup-shaped with a broad base. 
Campylotropous (ovule or seed). So curved as to bring the apex and 
base near together. 
Canaliculate. Longitudinally channeled. 
Canescent. Hoary with gray pubescence. 
Capitate. Shaped like a head; collected into a dense cluster. 
Capitellate. Collected in a small head. 
Capsular. Belonging to or being of the shape of a capsule. 
Capsule. A dry dehiscent fruit, composed of more than one carpel; the 
spore-case of mosses. 
Carinate. Having a keel or projecting longitudinal median line on the 
lower surface. 
Carpel. A simple pistil, or one member of a compound pistil. 
Cartilaginous. Firm and tough. 
Caruncle. An appendage at or about the hilum of a seed. 
Carunculate. Having a caruncle. 
Caryopsis. A grain, as of grasses ; a seed-like fruit with a thin pericarp 
adnate to the contained seed. 
Castaneous. Of chestnut color. 
Catkin. An ament; sterile flower in oaks, etc. 
Caudate. Having a slender tail-like appendage. 
Caudex. The persistent base of an otherwise annual herbaceous stem. 
Caulescent. Having a manifest stem. 
Cauline. Belonging to the stem. 
Cavernous. Hollow ; full of air-cavities. 
