48 3 DICTIONARY OF 
Crernuvs, bent, (fruit-stalk.) | . : : 
Cuarr (palea) a thin membranaceous substance growing upon 
a common receptacle, to separate the florets from each 
other, as in Teasel ; Scabious ; Willow; Burdock. 
Cuarry (acerosus) Leaves; these are hard, dry, strap- 
shaped, permanent, surrounded at the base by a kind 
of membranaceous chaff-like substance. The leaves of 
the Fir, the Yew, the Pine, and the Cedar are so called. 
Pl. 9. f. 3.-(e.) : 
Receptacie, Frower, or Husk (paleaceus) set 
with a substance like chaff. 
CHANNELED (canaliculatus) Leaves, Lear-sTaLK, or 
Frvuit-sraLx ; having a deep furrow or channel éxtend+ 
ing from the base to the end.. ~ Md : 
Curve, see Stamen. 
CICATRISATUS, scarred. 
Cr11arus, fringed. 
CrncGews, binding round. 
Crrcunar (circularis) round and flat ; nearly in the form of 
a circle, as are the leaves of the Alder, or the petals of 
the Strawberry and Hawthorn. PI. 7. f. 2. 4. 
Crrcumctssa, cut round. 
CircuMreRENCe, (circulus) the part of a circle most distant 
from the centre. _Thus in a shilling or half crown, the 
inscription is round the circumference. It is used in 
botany to exprefs the florets that are furthest from the 
centre of a compound flower ; as the white ones which 
surround the yellow ones in the Common Daisie, or the 
florets in the outer part of an Umbel. Pl. 4. f£ 24. ss 
(a. a, a, a.) be ce 
Crrrosvum (fol.) terminating in a tendril. 
Cirrus, tendrily  — ee. 
Ciammy (viscosus) adhesive like bird-lime ;as are the leaves 
of the Alder ; or the stalks of Frarinella ; and Gum Cistus. 
CLASPER, see tendril, ores oe 
Crass (clafsis) see the introduction. 
CLausus, closed. - 
Ciavarus, club-shaped, | 
-CLAVICULA, the same as Cirrus, 
CLaw (unguis) blofsoms that are composed of several petals, 
have frequently those petals so formed as to admit of two 
distinct names ; the claw and the limb. The claw is the” 
~ lower part, or that next to the base; thus if you take a 
Pink, a Campion, or a Wi allflower, and draw out one of the 
_ petals, the lower and the slender part by which it was 
connected, and which was included within the cup, is the 
part which is called the Claw. Pl.4.f.11, (aa) 
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CLEFT, see cloyen, 
