The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Part 229

_Chaff._ A small thin scale or bract, becoming dry and membranous.

_Chaffy._ Having or resembling chaff.

_Channelled._ Deeply grooved longitudinally, like a gutter.

_Chartaceous._ Having the texture of writing-paper.

_Chlorophyll._ The green grains within the cells of plants.

_Chlorophyllose._ Containing chlorophyll.

_Ciliate._ Marginally fringed with hairs.

_Ciliolate._ Minutely ciliate.

_Cinereous._ Ash-color.

_Circinate._ Coiled from the top downward, as the young frond of a fern.

_Circ.u.mscissile._ Dehiscing by a regular transverse circular line of division.

_Clavate._ Club-shaped; gradually thickened upward.

_Cleistogamous._ Fertilized in the bud, without the opening of the flower.

_Cleft._ Cut about to the middle.

_Climbing._ Ascending by laying hold of surrounding objects for support.

_Cl.u.s.ter._ Any a.s.semblage of flowers on a plant.

_Cl.u.s.tered._ Collected in a bunch of any sort.

_Coalescence._ The union of parts or organs of the same kind.

_Coccus_ (pl. _Cocci_). One of the parts into which a lobed fruit with 1-seeded cells splits.

_Cochleate._ Spiral, like a snail-sh.e.l.l.

_Cohesion._ The union of one organ with another.

_Columella._ The persistent axis of some capsules, spore-cases, etc.

_Columnar._ Like a column.

_Commissure._ The surface by which one carpel joins another, as in the Umbelliferae.

_Comose._ Furnished with a _coma_ or tuft of hairs.

_Complicate._ Folded upon itself.

_Compound._ Composed of 2 or more similar parts united into one whole.

_Compound leaf_, one divided into separate leaflets.

_Compressed._ Flattened laterally.

_Conceptacle._ In some Cryptogams a case or receptacle containing the organs of fructification.

_Conduplicate._ Folded together lengthwise.

_Confluent._ Running into each other; blended into one.

_Coniferous._ Cone-bearing.

_Connate._ United congenitally.

_Connective._ The portion of a stamen which connects the two cells of the anther.

_Connivent._ Coming into contact; converging.

_Conoidal._ Nearly conical.

_Convergent._ Approaching each other.

_Convolute._ Rolled up longitudinally.

_Cordate._ Heart-shaped with the point upward.

_Coriaceous._ Leathery in texture.

_Corm._ The enlarged fleshy base of a stem, bulb-like but solid.

_Corolla._ The inner perianth, of distinct or connate petals.

_Coroniform._ Shaped like a crown.

_Corrugate._ Wrinkled or in folds.

_Corymb._ A flat-topped or convex open flower-cl.u.s.ter, in the stricter use of the word equivalent to a contracted raceme and progressing in its flowering from the margin inward.

_Corymbose._ In corymbs, or corymb-like.

_Cosmopolite._ Found in most parts of the globe (of plants).

_Costa._ A rib; a midrib or mid-nerve.

_Costate._ Ribbed; having one or more longitudinal ribs or nerves.