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plants, where they are disposed in the manner of lattice- 
work. 
Clavate. Club-shaped. 
Clavellose. Covered with or made up of club-like pro¬ 
tuberances. 
Claw. The lengthened base of a petal, by which it is con¬ 
nected with the receptacle. 
Clinandrium. A depression of the column of Orchidaceous 
plants, in which the anther lies. 
Clinanthium. The dry woody receptacle of composite flowers, 
to which the base of the florets is attached. 
Clypeate. Buckler-shaped. 
Coacervate. Growing together, clustered. 
Coadnate, Coalescens. Joined, coherent. 
Coated. Having a distinct external layer harder than the 
internal, as the rind of fruit, <S:c. 
Cob-webbed. Covered with a soft, thin, white pubescens, like 
a cob-web. 
Coccineus. Scarlet; this term is frequently used in far too lax 
a manner, being erroneously employed to designate nearly 
every shade between orange and crimson. 
Cochleate. In general acceptation shell-shaped, though 
strictly the form should be the spiral one of the snail 
shell. 
Codiofhyllus. Having leaves covered with short woolly 
hairs. 
Cohering. Expressive of an union of similar parts, as where 
the petals of a flower are joined so as to form a tube. 
Collum. The neck, synonyme for Cingulum. 
Columella. A central axis, round which the carpels of some 
fruits, and the thecae of mosses, are arranged. 
Coma. The aggregation of parts which form the head of a 
plant; also tufts of hairs on certain seeds, and sometimes 
applied to roots which have numerous hair-like ramifica¬ 
tions. 
Comminuted. Crushed, pulverised. 
Comose. Descriptive of the tuft of sterile bracteae on the 
summit of the inflorescence of certain plants, as the Hya- 
cinthus comosus, &c. 
Compactus. Pressed together, close. 
