Crenulate; very finely crenate.
tCres'ed; having an appendage resembling a cock's comb. Crisp; curled, ur wavy at the edges.
Criatate; crested; having s crest.
Cross; or cross-breed. A hybrid or mule, produced by the mixing of two nearly allied species.
Crow led; thickly set; standing in close order.
Crown. A circular series of petaloid appendages at the throat of a corolla; also of chaffy scales at the summit of sn akene.
Crowned; having appendages resembling a crown. Cruciate, or cruciform; having four petals arranged in form of a cross.
Crustaceogs; having a dry brittle shell.
Cryptogamous plants. Plants which are destitute of visi ble genutoe flowers.
tine/it/We; in the form of a cowl; the edges rolled in so as to meet at base, and spreading above, like a hood thrown back.
;Cu/in; The stem of the grasses, and cyperaceous plants. Cuneate, or cuneiform; wedge-shaped; tapering with strsight edges to the base.
'Cupule. The cup-like involucre of the scorn, etc. Cusp. A stiffish, tapering sharp point.
+Cuspidate; tapering to a straight stiffish sharp point. Cuticie. The outer skin, usually thin and membra naceous.
Cyathiform; top shaped and hollowed at the summit like a cum 'Cylindric; long, round and of uniform diameter.
Cyme. A kind of panicle, depressed nearly to t he form of an umbel with the principal peduncles rising from the same centre, hut the subdivisions irregular.
Cyniose; with the flowers in cymes, or approaching that form.
'Cymules. The reduced cymes, or cymos clusters, of the Latiatce; sometimes called l'erticillasters. Decandrous; having ten distinct stamens.
Decidu'os; falling off at the usual time, or at the end of the season; more durable than Coducous; which see. Declinate. or declined; bent off horizontally ; or curved downwards.
Decornpound; several times compound.
_Decumbent; leaning upon the ground, with the base only. erect.
Dec vrrence. A running or extending down, or back wards.
Decurrent leaf. When the two edges are continued down the stem, like wings.
Decussate; growing in opposite pairs and alternately cross ing each other.
Definite; clearly defined, or limited; also of a constant or determinate (and not large) number.
Deflected; bent off, or downwards.
Dehiscent; gaping or opening naturally by seams, at ma turity.
Deltoid; triangular in the outline, like the Greek letter Delta.
Demersed; growing or being under water.
Dense; closely arranged; compact.
Dentate; toothed; edged with toothlike projections. Denticulate; having very small teeth.
Depauperate; with a starved or stunted inflorescence; few-flowered.
Depressed; flatted vertically, or pressed down at summit. Depressed-globose; globular, with the base and apex flatted.
Di; in composition, two.
Diadelphous ; having the filaments united in two parcels, usually nine and one, with a papilionaceous corolla. Diandro us ; having two stamens.
Diaphanous ;transparent; permitting light to pass through. Dichotomal flower. Situated in the fork of a dichotomous stem or branch.
Dichotomous ; forked; regularly divided and subdivided, in two equal branches.
Diclinous ; having the stamens and pistils in distinct flowers, whether on the same or different plants. Dicotyledonous plants. Where the embryo has two lobes, or cotyledons.
Didymous ; twin; growing in pairs, and more or less united.
Didynamous ; having two long and two shorter stamens, mostly in a bilabiate, ringent, or personate corolla. Diffuse; spreading widely in a loose irregular manner. Digitate leaf. Where a simple petiole connects several distinct leaflets, finger-like, at its summit, as in the Horse Chestnut.
Dig ynous ; having two pistils, or two distinct stigmas. Dilated; made wider; stretched or expanded.
Dimerous ; composed of two parts, as a dimerous calyx or corolla, when there are two sepals or petals. Diraidiate ; halved, as if one side, or half, had been cut off.
Dingy; of a dull, soiled, smoky, or leaden-brown color. Dicecious, or dioicous; having staminate and pistillate flowers on distinct plants.