GLOSSARY. 
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GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED IN BOTANICAL 
DESCRIPTIONS. 
Cribose. Perforated with little holes like a sieve. 
Crinitus. Having a pubescence resembling a beard. 
Crisp. Crtspus. Crispativus. Having an undulated surface 
or margin, curled. 
Cristate. When an organ is terminated by an irregular crest¬ 
like appendage, as when the filament continues beyond the 
anther, and there becomes thickened or dilated, it forms a 
crested or cristate stamen. 
Croceus. Orange-yellow, the colour of saffron. 
Cruciate. When opposite pairs of leaves or petals are placed 
at right angles, so as to assume the form of a cross. 
Cruciform. Synonymous with the above. 
Cruentus. Literally of the colour of blood, but usually applied 
as descriptive of a colour possessing more red than is found 
in the sanguineous hue. 
Crustaceous. Covered with hard brittle substance resembling 
a shell. 
Cucullate. Incurved or rolled over at the edges, so as to form, 
by the overlapping of the margin, a hood or covering. 
Culm. Culmus. The flower stem of grain bearing plants, as 
the grasses, &c. 
Cultrate. Cultriformis. Curved at one end in the manner 
of a pruning hook. 
Cuneate. Cuneiformis. Tapering to one end, wedge-shaped. 
Cup. An envelope to the fructification of some cryptogamic 
plants, also synonymous with corona. 
Cupule. Cupula. A receptacle of the fruit of amentaceous 
plants, like the cup of the acorn. 
Cupularis. Cupuliformis. Shaped like a cup. 
Curvinerved. Applied to describe the direction of the veins or 
nerves of the leaves ; these are either “ convergent,” as when 
they proceed from the base, curving outwards in the middle 
of the leaf and meeting again at the point; or “ divergent,” 
as when they issue in slightly curved, nearly parallel lines, 
from a mid-rib towards the margin of the leaf. 
