BOTANICAL TERMS. a7 
CaNALIcuLaTuM, channelled (leaf.) 
CANCELLATUS, latticed. 
CaPibLLARIs, hair-like. 
CaPiTaTws, growing in heads. 
CarituLuM, knob, or little head (of flowers.) 
Carreouus, see Cirrus and 'Tendril, 
CaPsuLE (capsula) a dry hollow seed-vefsel, which opens 
naturally in some determinate manner; as at the side by 
a small hole in Orchis and Campanula ; horizontally in 
Pimpernel ; longways in Convolvulus ; at the bottom in 
Arrowgrass ; or at the top, as in most plants. Sce pl. 5. 
10 2D 14 * 
Carina, keel. : 
Canrinatus, boat-shaped, or kecled. 
Carwnosvum, fleshy (leaf.) 
CARTILAGINEUM, gristly (leaf.) 
Carkrn (amentum) is a composition of flowers and chaff, on 
a long, slender, thread-shaped receptacle, the figure of 
_ the whole resembling a cat’s tail. The Willow, the Hasel, 
and the Reedmace, are instances. PL 6, & 12. _ 
Canna, tile 9) 658 Seige arene! § 
-CauDeEx, stem, or trunk ; particularly applied to a tree.- 
CavLescens, having a stem, _ OF pie eign s } 
CavuLinus, belonging to. the stem, sree 
CauLIs, stem ; a term of more general signification than either 
_ @scapusior stipes; which see. . 
Cavis, hollow, : 
Cry (oculamentum) having cells (locularis)-a vacuity in the 
~~ capsule for lodging the seed. Capsules have either one 
cell, as in Primrose ; two as in Lhornapple ; three as in 
Tily ; four as in Spindleiree; five as in Rue; six as in 
Asarabacca, &c. Pl, 3. f. 4. Whena capsule has several 
cells, with a single seed in each, it is sometimes called 
Cocca; thus a 2-celled and a 2-seeded Capsule is called 
Capsula dicocca ; but its application seems limited to Cap- 
sules which have external protuberances corresponding 
with the internal cells, and these protuberances being so 
strongly marked, as to give the appearance of so many 
_ Capsules united together, rather than one single Capsule. 
~—It also signifies the cavity in the Anthers which contains 
CENTRAL (flores flosculosi) Frorers ; those which occupy 
the middle part of acompound flower; as the yellow ones 
in the middle of a common Daisy; pl. 4. f. 24. (b.) and 
it likewise is used to signify the Horets in the middle part 
of an Umbel. Site Ne meee aa ae’, Fe 
—~ Lear-Sraxx is fixed not to the base, but to the 
middle = of a leaf, as in the garden Nasturtium, and 
Marsh Pennywort. Pl. 9. f. 4. (a.) a, 
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