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Bracteolate, having bractlets.

Bulbiferous, bearing bulbs.

Caducous, dropping off very early.

Campanulate, bell-shaped.

Capitate, headlike, or collected in a head.

Carina, a salient longitudinal projection on the center of the lower face of an organ.

Carinate, furnished with a carina, or keel.

Carpel, a simple pistil, or one of the several parts of a compound one.

Ciliate, marginally fringed with hairs.

Clavate, club-shaped.

Claw, the narrowed base, or stalk, which some petals, etc., possess.

Coalescing, cohering; used properly in respect to similar parts.

Column, a body formed by the union of filaments (stamineal); or (in orchids) of the stamens and pistil.

Confluent, blended, or running together.

Connate, growing together; united in one.

Connective, the portion of the filament which connects or separates the cells of an anther.

Connivent, coming into contact or converging.

Cordate, heart-shaped.

Coriaceous, leathery.

Corymb, a flat-topped inflorescence flowering from the margin inward.

Corymbose, in corymbs, or in the form of a corymb.

Cruciferous, of four somewhat similar petals, spreading in the form of a cross.

Cymose, in cymes. (See cyme, in Explanation of Terms, p. xxviii.)

Deciduous, falling at the end of the season.

Declined, bent or curved downward or forward.

Decumbent, reclining, but with summit ascending.

Decurrent, running down the stem; applied to a leaf with blade prolonged below its insertion.

Deflexed, bent or turned abruptly downward.