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_Cotyledons._ The foliar portion or first leaves (one, two, or more) of the embryo as found in the seed.

_Crateriform._ In the shape of a saucer or cup, hemispherical or more shallow.

_Creeping._ Running along or under the ground and rooting.

_Crenate._ Dentate with the teeth much rounded.

_Crenulate._ Finely crenate.

_Crested, Cristate._ Bearing an elevated appendage resembling a crest.

_Crown._ An inner appendage to a petal, or to the throat of a corolla.

_Cruciate._ Cross-shaped.

_Crustaceous._ Of hard and brittle texture.

_Cucullate._ Hooded or hood-shaped; cowled.

_Culm._ The peculiar stem of sedges and gra.s.ses.

_Cuneate._ Wedge-shaped; triangular with the acute angle downward.

_Cuspidate._ Tipped with a _cusp_, or sharp and rigid point.

_Cylindraceous._ Somewhat or nearly cylindrical.

_Cyme._ A usually broad and flattish determinate inflorescence, i.e.

with its central or terminal flowers blooming earliest.

_Cymose._ Bearing cymes or cyme-like.

_Deciduous._ Not persistent; not evergreen.

_Decompound._ More than once compound or divided.

_Dec.u.mbent._ Reclining, but with the summit ascending.

_Decurrent_ (leaf). Extending down the stem below the insertion.

_Decurved._ Curved downward.

_Decussate._ Alternating in pairs at right angles, or in threes.

_Definite._ Of a constant number, not exceeding twenty.

_Deflexed._ Bent or turned abruptly downward.

_Dehiscent._ Opening regularly by valves, slits, etc., as a capsule or anther.