Capitate: in a globular or head- shaped cluster. 

Capsule: a dry dehiseent fruit made of more than 1 carpel (segment) 

Cordate: heart- shaped. as seen at the base of a deeply- notched leaf: see p.6 

Corolla: petals. collectively. 

Cotyledon: the embryo leaf in a seed. often functioning as the first leaf of a seeding. 

Caducous: falling off early. 

Carpel: a modified leaf forming an ovary bearing the ovules . 

Catkin: a type of inflorescence having usually of unisexual flowers without petals, solitary or twin in the axils of  
bracts. 

Caudate: with a tail-like ending. 

Cilia: a marginal hair. 

Ciliate: hairy along margins. 

Clavate: club shaped. 

Clawed: with a narrow, tapering base, especially of petals. 

Column: a solid body formed from fusion of stamens and styles. 

Coma: a tuft of hairs at the end of seeds. 

Compound: formed of similar parts grouped in a whole, usually of leaves consisting more than one separate  
leaflet. 

Connate: united to one another. 

Convolute: rolled up along the margins. 

Cordate: deeply notchsd at base, conventional heart-shaped. 

Coriaceous: leathery. 

Corolla: the interior series of the perianth. 

Corona: an inner appendage to the corolla or petals sometimes appears like a second corolla, or a ligular  
outgrowth of the stamens. 

Corymb: a type of inflorescence with several flower-stalks arising at different levels which reach more or less  
the same level at the top. 

Culm: the stem of a grass or bamboo. 

Cuneate: wedge-shaped. 

Cyme: a type of inflorescence in which the secondary or lateral branches continue to grow and may extend  
beyond the main axis.