ITORTUS JAMAICENSIS. 



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!&re, in his Fragments of a Natural Me- 

 thod, an J his Natural Orders. 



Castrata. Without anthers. 



Catkin. See Ament. 



Cauda. See Tail. 



Caudex. The stem or trunk of a tree. 



Caulescent plant. Having a stem differ- 

 ent from that which produces the flower. 



Cauline leaf Growing immediately on 

 the stem, without the intervention of 

 branches. 



Caulis. The stalk of herbs. 



Cell. The hoi low part of a pericarp, and 

 particularly of a capsule in which the 

 set-ds are lodged According to the 

 number of these, pericarps are called one- 

 cell ed, two celled. &c. 



Cekm'U.s drooping, and must be distin- 

 guished from nutans, nodding. 



Gespitosa. A cespitose or turfy plant, 

 has many stems from the same root, 

 usually forming a close thick carpet, or 

 matted together. 



Chaff. The dry calyx of corn and grasses, 

 in common language. 



Chaffy receptacle. In which the florets 

 are divided by interposed chaffs or scales. 



Channelled. Hollowed above with a deep 

 longitudinal groove ; convex underneath. 

 Applied to the stem, leaf, and petiole. 



Chinked. Applied to the outer bark of 

 trees, especially old ones. 



Chive. Put by some English writers for 

 stamen. 



GlCATR'S \ rus truncus. A scarred stem 

 Marked with the remains of leaves that 

 have fallen off. 



ClLlATUM. The edge guarded by parallel 

 bristles longitudinally. 



Cinereous I'ne colour of wood ashes 



GlRClNAi.lS vernatio. A term in foliation 

 or U; fing; importing that the leaves are 

 rolled in spirally downwards, the tip oc- 

 cupying the centre. 



C'RCUMSCi s\ capsula. Opening, not lon- 

 gitudinally or vertically, as in most cap- 

 sules, but transversely or horizontally, 

 like a snuff-box -, usually about the 

 middle, so as to fall nearly in two equal 

 hemispheres. 



ClRREFERUM. Tendril-bearing. 

 CiR&OSUM. Terminating in a cirrus or 



tendril. 

 Cirkos. See T.adril. 

 Cl vatus. Club-shaped. 

 Claw. The lower narrow part of the petal 

 in a polypetalous coroiia, by which it is 

 fixed to the receptacle. 

 Cleft leaf: Divided by linear sinuses, 



with straight margins. 



Climbing plant. Ascending by means of 



b ndrils, or sometimes by the stem or 



branches, but without twining, which see. 



Club-shaped. Growing thicker toward 



the top. 

 CoabunaTA f.jlia (coadunate leaves). Se- 

 veral joined together, or united at the 

 base. 

 Co\nuNAT/E, the fifty-second of Linneus's. 



Natural Orders 

 Coakctatus. Squeezed or pressed toge- 

 ther. 

 Coated or tunicated. Composed of con- 

 centric layers, as the bulb of the onion ; 

 or clothed with membranes, as some 

 stems. 

 Cobwebmed. Covered with a thick inter- 

 woven pubescence. 

 Coccum. Liuneus applies this term to 

 some fruits of a particular structure, 

 having several cells with a single seed in 

 each. 

 Cochlf.atum. Screw-sbaped or snaiU 



shaped. 

 Coiled. Bent or twisted like a rope. 

 Coi.LUM, The neck or upper part of the 



tube, in a oaonopetalous corolla. 

 Columella. The central pillar in a cap 



side 

 Columnar. Like the shaft of a column. 

 Cui.ummfers. The name of the thirty- 

 fourth order, in the Fragments of a Na- 

 tural Method, in Linneus's Philosophies 

 Botanica ; the thirty- seventh of his Na- 

 tural Orders, at the end of Genera Plana 

 tarum ; and the fourteenth order of 

 Itoyeii's System. It includes the maiva- 

 ceous, or mallow-like plants, which are 

 to be found in tiie class Monodelphla of 

 Linneus's Artificial System. 

 Aaa Coma. 



