GLOSSARY. 
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GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED IN BOTANICAL 
DESCRIPTIONS. 
Cuticle. The skin or covering. 
Cyaneus. Pure bright blue. 
Cyathiform. Concave. Synonymous with Cupularis. 
Cyclical. Rolled into a complete circle. 
Cylindrical. Approaching or having the form of a cylinder. 
Cymbiform. Shaped like a boat. 
Cyme. A peculiar mode of inflorescence, in which the pe¬ 
duncles and pedicles, or footstalks of the numerous flowers, 
are of various lengths ; so that the flowers themselves are 
all level. 
Cymose. Bearing flowers in cymes. 
Dacryoideus. Applied to describe a figure resembling a pear, 
tapering from a rounded base upwards. 
Dactylosus. A figure intermediate between a cylinder and a 
cone, as in the flower spikes of many verbenacese. 
DiEDALOUS. Having a broad, irregularly divided apex. 
Dasyphyllus. Having leaves either densely covered with short, 
thick hairs, or growing close together in clusters. 
Dealbatus. Having a silvery appearance. Gray, covered with 
a white mealy substance. 
Deciduous. Descriptive of that portion of the vegetable king¬ 
dom which annually and at a certain time lose all their leaves. 
The term is also applied to other organs than the leaves, as 
the calyx or corolla, when they decay or fall sooner than the 
connected parts. 
Declinate. Twined on one side. 
Decumbent. Having a trailing habit, with an inclination to 
grow upwards at the extremities. 
Decurrent. Decursivus. Applied to a leaf whose sides con¬ 
tinue down the stem to which it is attached, beyond the 
point of union of the midrib and the stem. 
Decussate. Decussativus. Where the leaves are placed in op¬ 
posite pairs, and each alternate pair crosses the preceding at 
right angles. Synonymous with Brachiate. 
