Coarctate • contracted, or crowded into a narrow compass. Coccus (plural, cocci). A kind of semi-baccate indehis cent carpel.
Cosh leate; coiled like a snail-shell.
Coherent; united with an organ of the same kind, as stamens coherent with each other, etc. (See Adherent.) Collateral; placed aide by side; or on the same aide of another organ.
Colored,' of any other color than green.
Columella; a little column.
Column. The axis or central pillar of s. capsule: or the combined filaments, and style of a Gynandrous or Orchi daceous plant.
Coma; a terminal tuft of hair, bracts, etc.
Commissure. The line of junction of two bodies, as the face of the carpels. (or mericarps) in Umbelliferce. Common (petiole, peduncle, etc.): belonging to, or sus taining, several similar subordinate parts.
Commie; having a tuft nr topknot of hairs, bracts or leaves, at the summit or at one end.
Compact; condensed or pressed together.
Complete flower; having both calyx and corolla. Compound; not simple, but made of similar simple parts. Compound flower. An aggregated cluster, or head of syngenesious florets, seated on a common receptacle, and embraced by an involucre, or many-leaved common calyx.
Compound leaf. Consisting of several leaflets, or laminae, each articulated with the common petiole, and ultimate ly falling from it.
Compound pistil. Consisting of two or more carpels, or simple ovaries, cohering together.
Compound umbel. Au umbel in which each primary peduncle, or ray, beat s a small umbel at summit. Compressed; flatted, as if squeezed or pressed.
Concave ; presenting a hollow or depressed surface. Concentric layers, or circles. Circles of different sizes, or diameters, with a common centre.
Concrete; grown together. or united.
Conduplzcate; double lengthwise, or folded together like a sheet of paper. or the leaves of a book.
Cone. The woody ament of the pines.
Conic, conical. nr conoid; having the figure of a cone. Confluent; blended, nr running together; forming &junc tion.
Congener. A plant belonging to the same genus; nearly related.
Conglomerate; clustered or heaped together.
Conjugate. In pairs ; coupled.
Connate-pet/0/We leaves; their bases united round the stem.
'Connate; growing together, or cohering.
Connective, ur connectivum. The organ which connects the two cells of an anther, conspicuous in some of the Labiatce.
Connivent; the summits meeting, or bending towards each other.
Constant; invariable; also never tailing, or wanting. Contiguous; ao near as to seem to touch.
Continuo•As; without interruption, or articulation.
• Contorted; twisted; or obliquely overlapping. Contracted; narrowed, or reduced into a smaller compass. Contrary; dissepiment; not parallel, but at right angles, or nearly so, with the valves of the pericarp.
Convex; presenting an elevated rounded surface. Convolute; rolled into a cylindrical form.
Cordate; heart-shaped, with the sinus, or notch, at the base.
Cordate-oblong; oblong, with a cordate base.
Coriaceous ; tough and leather like.
Corm, ur Cornius. A fleshy subterraneous stem, of a round or oval figure, and an uniform compact texture, as in .A.rum, or Indian Turnip.
Corneous; having the consistence or appearance of horn. Cornicutree; having little horns or spurs.
Cornute; having appendages like horns.
Corolla. The delicste inner covering of the flower, be tween the calyx and stamens, mostly colored.
• Coro& furni; in the shape of a crown.
Corrugated; contracted into wrinkles.
'Cortical; belonging to the bark.
'Corticate; clothed with bark.
Corymb. A mode of flowering ; a kind of raceme, with the lower peduncles elongated so as to form a level top.
•orymbose; in the manner of the Corymb.
Corymbulose; having the flowers in little corymbs. Costate; ribbed.
'Cotyledons. The seed lobes, or first crude leaves of a plant; formed in the seed, and sometimes becoming green leaves in vegetation.
•Craterifornz; in the form of a cup or bowl, or hemispheri cal cup.
'Creeping; running along the ground, and putting forth small roots.
Crenate; notched on the edge, with the segments rounded, and not inclining towards either extremity.