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GLOSSARY. 
Cell. One of the minute vescicles, of various forms, of which plants are 
formed ; any structure containing a cavity, as the cells of an 
anther, ovary, etc. 
Cellular (tissue). Composed of thin-walled cells, in distinction from 
fibrous or vascular. 
Cespitose. Growing in tufts ; forming mats or turf. 
Chaff. A small thin scale or bract, becoming dry and membranous. 
Chaffy. Having or resembling chaff. 
Channeled. Deeply grooved longitudinally. 
Chartaceous. Having the consistency of writing paper. 
Chlorophyll. The green grains within the cells of plants. 
Ciliate. Marginally fringed with hairs. 
Ciliolate. Minutely ciliate. 
Cinereous. Ash color. 
Circinate. Coiled from the top downward, as the young frond of a fern. 
Circumcissile. Dehiscing by a regular transverse circular line of division. 
Clavate. Club-shaped; gradually thickening upward. 
Cleistogamous. Fertilized in the bud without the opening of the flower. 
Cleft. Cut about the middle. 
Cluster. An assemblage of flowers on a plant. 
Coalescence. The union of parts or organs of the same kind. 
Coccus, One of the parts into which a lobed fruit with 1-seeded cell 
splits. 
Cochleate. Spiral like a snail-shell. 
Cohesion. The union of organs with one another. 
Columella, The persistent axis of some capsules, spore-cases, etc. 
Columnar. Like a column. 
Commissure. The surface by which one carpel joins another, as in Um- 
beliferae. 
Comose. Furnished with a tuft of hairs. 
Complicate. Folded upon itself. 
Compound. Compossd of two or more similar parts united into one whole ; 
compound leaf; one divided into separate leaflets. 
Compressed. Flattened laterally. 
Conduplicate. Folded together lengthwise. 
Confluent. Running into each other. 
Coniferous. Cone-bearing. 
Connate. United congenitally. 
Connective. The portion of a stamen which connects the two cells of the 
anther. 
Connivent. Coming into contact; converging. 
Conoidal. Nearly conical. 
Convergent. Approaching each other. 
Convolute. Rolled up longitudinally. 
Cordate. Heart-shaped, with the point upward. 
