Alpine flora of the Canadian Rocky MountainsBrown, Stewardson
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Alpine flora of the Canadian Rocky Mountains
Brown, Stewardson
Mountain plants -- Canadian Rockies (B.C. and Alta.)
CÆSPITOSE: growing in tufts.
CALYX: the outer whorl of floral leaves forming usually a green cup.
CAMPANULATE: bell-shaped.
CANESCENT: greyish-white, due usually to fine hairs.
CAPILLARY: hair-like.
CAPITATE: arranged in a head; knob-like.
CAPSULE: a dry, dehiscent seed-vessel.
CARPEL: a pistil-leaf. The pistil is regarded as being composed of
one or more such carpels.
CATKIN: the scaly, cylindrical flower-cluster of Willow, Birch, etc.
CAUDATE: with a tail-like appendage.
CAUDEX: the perennial rootstock of an otherwise annual plant.
CHARTACEOUS: papery or parchment-like.
CILIATE: fringed with marginal hairs.
CINEREOUS: ashen or greyish.
CLEISTOGAMIC: (flowers) never opening as the late flowers of
violets, etc.
CONNATE: united.
CORDATE: heart-shaped.
CORIACEOUS: leathery.
CORM: a solid bulb.
CORYMBOSE: with a flat-topped or convex flower-cluster, the
flower-stalks of which arise at different points on the axis,
and of which the outermost flowers are the oldest.
CRENATE: with rounded teeth.
CRENULATE: with small rounded teeth.
CUNEATE: wedge-shaped.
CUSPIDATE: ending in a sharp, hard point.
CYME: a flat-topped or convex flower-cluster, the flower-stalks of
which arise at different points on the axis, and of which the
innermost flowers are the oldest.
DECIDUOUS: subject to fall, as leaves of most trees and calyx and
corolla of most flowers before the fruit forms.
DECUMBENT: (stems) reclining on the ground with summit tending
to rise.
DECURRENT: (leaves) with base prolonged below insertion and forming
a sort of wing.
DELTOID: broadly triangular.
DENTATE: toothed, usually with teeth projecting outwards.
DENTICULATE: with little, outwardly projecting teeth.
DIŒCIOUS: having staminate and pistillate flowers on separate
plants.
DISC: the central part of a head as opposed to the ray,
_e. g._, in the sun-flower. Also a fleshy expansion
of the receptacle of the flower.
DRUPE: a stone-fruit.
DRUPELET: a small stone-fruit.
ELLIPTIC: with the outline of an ellipse.
ENTIRE: with the margin even and not toothed, lobed, or divided.
EROSE: irregularly margined.
FIMBRIATE: fringed.
FLOCCOSE: with loose tufts of wool-like hairs.
FOLIACEOUS: leaf-like.
FOLLICLE: a fruit of one carpel (pistil-leaf) which splits only
by one suture.
FUSIFORM: spindle-shaped.
GALEA: a helmet-shaped body.
GLANDULAR: with small prominences which appear to have a secreting
function.
GLAUCOUS: covered with a bluish or white bloom.
GLOBOSE: spherical.
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