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_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.
