e of grasses, 20.

C

Callus the projecting part or an extension of the flowering
glume below its point of insertion, 168.

Caryopsis a one-celled, one-seeded, superior fruit in which the
pericarp has fused with the seed-coat.

Chartaceous papery, i.e., thin and somewhat rough, 47.

Ciliate fringed with hairs, 54.

Ciliolate very sparsely fringed with hairs, 70.

Clavate club-shaped, 104.

Clavellate thickened towards the apex, 252.

Coleorhiza the sheath of a monocotyledonous embryo which is
pierced by the radicle during germination, 18.

Collar the white or colourless band at the base of the blade
of a grass leaf just where it joins the sheath, 3.

Conduplicate folded together lengthwise, 12.

Convolute rolled round from one margin to the other, so that one
margin is inside and the other outside, 12.

Coriaceous leathery, 49.

Corymbosely arranged in corymbs, i.e., flat-topped flower
clusters, 56.

Crinite bearded with weak, long hairs, 137.

Crisped curled, 59.

Cuneate wedge-shaped or triangular, 49.

Cuspidate tipped with a small triangular piece at the apex, 70.

D

Decumbent reclining but with the upper part ascending, 80.

Digitate lingered, arranged at the end of the stalk, 51.

Dioecious having the sexes separated on two distinct
individuals, 45.

Distichous two-ranked or two-rowed, 19.

E

Embryo young plant contained in the seed, 18.

Endodermis the innermost layer of the cortex abutting on and
forming a sheathing layer round the stele, 32.

Exodermis the layer or layers of thickened cells beneath the
piliferous layer of roots, 32.

Extra vaginal applied to shoots or branches that come out piercing
the leaf sheath in grasses, 9.

F

Fascicle a cluster or bundle, 95.

Filiform thread shaped, slender and thin, 54.

Flexuous bent alternately in opposite directions, 62.

Foveolate marked with small pits, 180.

G

Geniculately bent abruptly so as to resemble a knee-joint, 118.

Geminate in pairs, 59.

Germ-sheath a sheath enclosing the bud or the plumule in a grain,
18.

Gibbous