Capsule. A dry dehiscent fruit composed of more than one carpel; the spore-case of Hepaticæ, etc.

Capsuliferous. Capsule-bearing.

Carinate. Having a keel or a projecting longitudinal medial line on the lower surface.

Carpel. A simple pistil, or one member of a compound pistil.

Cartilaginous. Of the texture of cartilage; firm and tough.

Caruncle. An excrescence or appendage at or about the hilum of a seed.

Carunculate. Having a caruncle.

Caryopsis. A grain, as of grasses; a seed-like fruit with a thin pericarp adnate to the contained seed.

Castaneous. Of a chestnut color; brown.

Catkin. An ament.