GLOSSARY. 
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GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED IN BOTANICAL 
DESCRIPTIONS. 
Corona. A crown, applied to the cup-like appendages in the 
interior of the perianth of narcissus, to the disc of some 
composite, and to the dried calyx of apples, pears, &c. 
Corpuscle. An indefinite portion of a body, a particle. 
Corrosive. Possessing the power of destroying gradually. 
Corrugate. Having a rough surface, wrinkled. 
Cortical. Of, or belonging to the bark. 
Corticate. Covered with bark, coated. 
Corymb. A panicle, in which the flowers are nearly all of a 
level, in consequence of the lower footstalks being longer 
than those above them. 
Corymbose. Arranged in the manner of a corymb; applied 
equally to the form of the branches as to that of the inflo- 
rescens. 
Corymbulose. Arranged in many small corymbs. 
Costa. A rib, the mid-rib of a leaf, or the elevated ridges of 
some cactese. 
Costate. Having projecting lines or ribs. 
Cotyledon. The seed-leaf, or envelope of an embryo, projected 
by the act of germination. The great divisions of the vege¬ 
table kingdom in the Jussieun system are regulated by the 
number of seed-leaves a plant may have ; thus the division 
Monocotyledones have but one, while Dicotyledonous plants 
have two or more. 
Cotyliform Cotyloidens. Shaped like a flower-pan, having 
a depressed tubular form with a proportionately wide base. 
Crassus. Of extraordinary thickness. 
Crateriform. Wide-mouthed, shaped like an inverted cone. 
Crenel Little notches. 
Crenate. Having a notched margin, distinguished from ‘toothed’ 
by the points of the serratures being rounded. 
Crenulate. An excessive state of the crenate. 
Crested. Terminating at the apex with an irregular crest-like 
appendage. 
Cretaceous. Of the colour of chalk. 
