Crentaate; very finely crenate.
Created; having an appendage resembling a cock's comb. Crisp; curled, or wavy at the edges.
Cristate; crested ; having a crest.
Cross; or cross-breed. A hybrid or mule, produced by the mixing of two nearly allied species.
Crowded; thickly set; standing in close order.
Crown. A circular series of petaloid appendages at the threat of a corolla; also of chaffy scales at the summit of an akene.
Crowned; appendages resembling a crown. Cruciate, or cruciform; having four petals arranged in form of a cross.
Crustaceous; having a dry brittle shell.
Cryptogamous plants. Plants which are destitute of visi ble genuine flowers.
Cucuitate; in the form of a cowl; the edges rolled in so as to meet at base, and spreading above, like a hood thrown back.
Calm; The stem of the grasses, and cyperaceoua plants. Cuneate, or cuneiform; wedge-shaped; tapering with straight edges to the base.
Cupule. The cup-like involucre of the acorn, etc. Cusp. A stiffish, tapering sharp point.
Cuspidate; tapering to a straight stiffish sharp point. Cuticle. The outer akin, usually thin and membra naceoua.
Cyathiform; top shaped and hollowed at the summit like a cap.
Cylindric; long, round and of uniform diameter.
Cyme. A kind of panicle, depressed nearly to the form of an umbel the principal peduncles rising from the same centre, but the subdivisions irregular. Cymose; with the flowers in cymes, or approaching that form.
The reduced cymes, or cymos- clusters, of the Labiatce; sometimes called Verticillastera.
Dscandrous; having ten distinct stamens.
Deciduous; falling off at the usual time, or at the end of the season; more durable than Caducoue; which see. Declinate, or declined; bent off horizontally; or curved downwards.
Decompound; several times compound.
Decumbent; leaning upon the ground, with the base only erect.
Deeurrence. 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 se4ms, at ma turity.
Deltoid; triangular in the outline, like the Greek letter Delta.
Demented; growing or being under water.
Dense; closely arranged; compact.
Dentate; toothed; edged with tooth-like projections. Denticulate; having very small teeth.
Depauperate; with a starved or stunted inflorescence; few-flowered.
Depressed; flatted vertically, or pressed down at summit. Depreeeed-globoee; globular, with the base and apex flatted.
Di; in composition, two.
Diadelphoua ; having the filaments united in two parcels, usually nine and one, with a papilionaceoue corolla. Diandroua; having two stamens.
Diaphanous ; tranaparent; permitting light to pass through ?ichotomal flower. Situated in the fork of a dichotomous stem or branch.
Dichotomous ; forked; regularly divided and subdivided, in two equal branches.
Diclinow s ; 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.
Didymoue; twin; growing in pairs, and more or less united.
Didynamoue; having two long and two shorter stamens. mostly in a bilabiate, ringent, or personate corolla. 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.
Digynoue; having two pistils, or two distinct stigmas. Dilated; made wider ; stretched or expanded.
Dimeroua ; composed of two parts, as a dimerous calyx or corolla, when there are two sepals or petals. Dimidiate; halved, as if one aide, or half, had been cut off.
Dingy; of a dull, solled, smoky, or leaden-brown color. Dice= ua, or dioicous; having ataminate and pistillate flowers on distinct plants.
Diceciouely, or dioicously polygamous; having perfect and imperrect flowers on different plants.