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as the Clematis; by cauline radicals or little fibrous roots, as tne 
creeping American ivy. 
Ctub-shaved. See clavate. 
Clus’tered. See racemed. 
Cly’peate. Form ofabuckler. See Peltate. 
- Coad’nate. United at the base. 
Coc’cineous. Scarlet coloured. 
Coch’leate. Coiled spirally, like a snail shell. 
Coc’cum. A grain or seed; tricoccous, 5-seeded, &c. 
Ceru‘leus. Blue. 
Colli’/nus. Growing on hills. 
Col’oured. Different from green; in the language of botany, green 
is not called a colour. White, which in reality is not a colour, is 
so called in botany. The primitive colours and their intermediate 
shades and gradations, are by botanists arranged as follows: 
Water-colour, hyalinus. 
White, albus. 
Lead-colour, cinereus. 
Black, niger. 
Brown, Suscus. 
Pitch-black, ater. 
Yellow, luteus. 
Straw-colour, flavus. 
Flame-colour, fulvus. 
Red, ruber. 
Flesh-colour, incarnatus. 
Scarlet, coccineus. 
Purple, purpureus. 
Violet-colour, c@ruleo-purpureus. * 
Blue, ceruleus. 
Green, viridis. 
White is most common in roots, sweet berries, and the petals of 
spring flowers. Black, in roots and seeds. Yellow, in anthers, and 
the petals of compound flowers. Red, in the petals of summer flowers 
and acid fruits. Blue and violet, in the petals. Green, in the leaves 
and calyx. 
Columel/la. ‘That which connects the seed to the inside of the peri- 
carp. ‘The central pillar in a capsule. 
Column. The style of gynandrous plants; used for columella. 
Co’ma. A tuft of bracts on the top of a spike of flowers. 
Compound flowers. Such as are in the class Syngenesia, having flo- 
rets with united anthers. ; 
leaf. When several leafets grow on one petiole. 
raceme. When several racemes grow along the side of a 
peduncle." 
umbcl. Having the peduncles subdivided into peduncles of 
lesser umbels. 
petiole. A divided leaf stalk. 
—— peduncle. A divided nower stalk. 
Compres’scd. Flatiened. 
Conchol’ogy. ‘The science which treats of shells. 
