Botanical Glossary 'C'

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Cadoucous: falling: off at an early stage.
Calcicole: soils with free Calcium Carbonate.
Calcifuge: not on soils with free Ca C.
Calyx: sepals as a whole.
Canaliculate: longditudinal groove.
Capitate: head like.
Capitulaum: head of sessile firs, surrounded
    by involcure of bracts.
Carpel: 1 of 2 units of which gynoecium is composed. S
Carpophore: slender; simpledivided axis which joins carpels. Cartilaginous: resembling cartilage in consistency.
Cauline: borne on aerial parts of stem especially upper part,
    but not subtending a flower or inflorescence.
Chromosome: small deeply staining bodies found in all
    nuclei which determine most, or all of the inheritable
    characters of organisms. 2 sets are present in a cell
    (diploid No. 2n) Sexually reproductive cell contain 1/2 : n.
Ciliate: regularly arranged hairs, projecting from the margin.
Commissure: the faces by which the two carpels are
    joined together. .
Compound: of an inflorescence. with axis branched.
Connate: organs of same kind growing together &
    becoming joined but distinct in origin.
Connivent: of 2 or > organs with bases wide apart but
    apices approaching one another.
Convex: curved.
Cordate: See Fig. 012.
Coriaceous: leathery texture.
Cotyledon: first leaf of a plant from seed.
Crenate: See Fig. C3.
Crispate: curled.
Cuneate: See Fig. C4.
Cuspidate: See Fig. C5.
Cyme: of an inflorescence, obconical, growing points
    terminated by a flower, so further growth of
    inflorescence is lateral.

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