Coarctate; contracted, or crowded into a narrow compass. Coccus (plural, coed). A kind of semi-baccate indehis rent carpel.
Cochleete; 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 side of another organ.
Colored; of any other color than green.
Columella; a little column.
Column. The axis or central pillar of a capsule; or the combined filaments, and style of a Gynandrous or Orchi daceous plant.
Coma;, a terminal tat of hair, bracts. etc.
Commas ure. 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.
Comose; having a tuft or 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 lower. An aggregated cluater, 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. Consistingof two or more carpels, or simple ovaries, cohering together.
Compound umbel. An umbel in which each primary peduncle, or ray, hea• 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.
Conduplicate; double lengthwise, 6r folded togetherlike a eheot of paper, or the leaves of a book.
Code. The woody ament of the pines.
Conic, conical, or conoid; having the figure of a cone Confluent; blended, or running together; forming a junc tion.
Congener. A plant belonging to the same genus; nearly related.
Conglomerate. clustered or heaped together.
Conjugate. In pairs; coupled.
Connate-perfoliate leaves; their bases united round the stem.
Connate; growing together, or cohering.
Connotive, or connectimem. The organ which connects the two dells of an anther, conspicuous in some of the Labiate:.
Connivent; the summits meeting, or bending towards each other.
Constant; invariable; also never failing, or wanting. Contiguous; so near as to seem to touch.
Continuous; 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 pericurp.
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.
Coriaceoua; tough and leather like.
Corm, or Commie. A fleshy eubterraneous stem, of a round or oval figure, and an uniform compact texture, as in Arum, or Indian Turnip.
Corneous; having the consistence or appearance of horn. Corniciaate; having little horns or spurs.
Comae; having appendages like horns.
Corolla. The delicate inner covering of the flower, be tween the calyx and stamens, mostly colored. Coroniform; in the shape of a crown.
Corrugated; contracted into wrinkles.
Cortical; belonging to the bark.
Corticate; qlothed with bark.
Corymb. A mode of flowering ; a kind of raceme, with the lower peduncles elongated so as to form a level top. Corymbose; in the manner of the Corymb.
Corymbuloae; having the flowers in little corymbe. Gestate; ribbed.
Cotyledons. The seed lobes, or first crude leaves of a plant; formed in the seed, and aometimee becoming green leaves in vegetation.
Crateriform; 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.