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HOTITUS JAMAICENSIS.. 



Bractea, bracte, or floral leaf. 



Biactbd. Furnished with bractes. 



Branch H) or branching. Furnished with 

 lateral divisions. 



B;!A.\c'.ii.i r. A subdivision of a branch, 

 a twig, 



Branch peduncle. A peduncle spring- 

 ing- from a bi anch. 



Bristle. A species of pubescence, in 

 form of a stiff roundish hair. 



Bristi.e-shaped ; of the thickness and 

 length of a bnstle. 



Bkis-1 lv. Set with" bristles." 



Bulb fhulbusj.. A hybernacte, or win- 

 ter receptacle of a plant, composed of 

 the bases of past leaves, and placed 

 immediately upon the root. It is vul- 

 garly considered as a root ; and was 

 called so by botanists till Linneus cor- 

 rected the error, and shewed that it was 

 a sinyle bad, enveloping the whole plant. 



Bulbous plants. Growing from bulbs. 



Bi/llate Leaf. When the substance rises 

 high above the veins, so as to appear 

 like blist srs. 



Bundle or fascicle. Several roots, leaves, 

 or Bowers, collected together, or pro- 

 ceeding from the same point. 



Burr. A prickly pericarp. 



Caducous. Falling off quickly. 



CalamarI/E (from calamus, arced). The 

 thirteenth order in Linneus's Fragments 

 of a Natural Arrangement, in Philoso- 

 fliiu Botanica , and the third of the natu- 

 ral orders, at the end of Genera PI 

 rum. It contains the sedges, and other 

 plants, allied to the grasses. 



CaLCARATUS call x. Furnished with a spur. 

 Calcaratum nectarium, a calcarate or 

 spur-shaped nectary. In shape resem- 

 bling a cock's spur. 



CALYCANTHEMf. The fortieth order in 

 Linneus's Fragments of a Natural Ar- 

 rangement. 



Calyune. Of or on the calyx ; as caly- 

 cine scales caiycine thorns. 



Cai.YCLE. A row of small leaflets placed 

 ced at the base of the calyx, on the out- 

 ride. Calyclc of the seed is the outer 



proper covering or crown of the seeeL> 

 adhering to it in order to facilitate its 

 dispersion; 



CaL'i culate or ca'ycled. A calyx having' 

 ;; calycle or little cup at the base, on the 

 outside. 



Cai.YPTRA, calyptre, or veil. The calyx 

 of mosses, covering the anther like a 

 hood. 



Calyx. The outer covering of the flower, 

 or the first of the seven parts of fructifi- 

 cation, formed, according to Linneus, 

 of the cortex or outer bark. 



CaMPANACEI. The thirty-second order in 

 the Fragments of a Natural Method, by 

 Linneus; containing plants with bell- 

 shaped llowers 



Ca.vpanulata. Bell-shaped. 



Canai.k ulatum. A canal or channel. 



Caxceli.atus. Latice work. 



Candrlares (candelet, a candle). The 

 sixty-second order in Linneus's Frag- 

 ments of a Natural Method. 



Capillary. Long and fine, like a hair. 



Caimllus (a hair). 



C'AriTAT.B (caput, a head). The second 

 division of die twenty-first order in Lin- 

 neus's Fragments of a Natural Method, 

 in Philosophic Botanica; and the first 

 division of the forty-ninth order in the 

 Ordines Nalurales, at the end of Gene- 

 ra 1'luilarum. 



Capitatus. Capitate, growing in a head. 



Capsule. A membranaceous hollow peri- 

 carp, opening in some determinate man- 

 ner ; or, differently in different plants. 



Carina. The lower petal of a papiliona- 

 ceous corolla 



CarinaTED. A keeled leaf, and nectar}'.. 

 Having a longitudinal prominency upon 

 the back, like the keel of a vessel. 



Carnosum folium. A fleshy leaf. 



Cartilaginous leaf Having the edge 

 strengthened by a tough nm of a sub- 

 stance very different from the disk. 



Caryophill/EUS. Having five regular pe- 

 tals, ending at the bottom in a long, nar- 

 row claw. Hence Linneus has constitu- 

 ted an order of plants, culled Carj/op/iyl- 



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