GLOSSARY OF GENERIO AND SPECIFIC NAMES. 



Cap^ella, littlc-poJ. 



Card AMINE, heart-cure. 



Cardina-LIS, cardinal; chief. 



CaRDUacea, thistle-like. 



Ca-kolinense, Carolina. 



Carolinianum, Carolina. 



Castilleia, Castillejo, a Spanish botanist. 



Castilleioides, Castilleia-like. 



CeaJs'othus, old name. 



Centranthifolius, Centranthus-leaved. 



Cerasiformis, cherry-like. 



Cerasticm, from Greek for a horn (refer- 

 ring to the horn-shaped pods). 



Cercocarpus, tailed-fruit. 



CuAiiMissoNis, A. von Chamisso, a poet 

 and botanist who visited this coast 

 with Eschscholtz early in this century. 



Cheir.anthifolia, wallflower-leaved. 



Cheiranthus, Arabic name. 



CniLENSis, Chili. 



Chimaphila, winter-lover. 



Chlorogalum, greenish milk. 



CiiRYSANTHEMiFOLiA, Crysanthemum- 

 leaved. 



Chrysantha, golden-flowered. 



CiLiATA, hair-fringed. 



CiRCiEA, Circe, the enchantress. 



CiRCiNATA, coiled; crosier-like. 



Clarkia, General Wm. Clarke, who 

 crossed the continent in 1803-1806. 



Cl.aytonia, Dr. John Clayton, an early 

 botanist of Virginia. 



Cleiiatis, ancient name of a climbing 

 plant. 



Clintonia, Governor De Witt Clinton, of 

 New York. 



CoLLiKSiA, Zaccheus Collins, of Philadel- 

 phia. 



CoLLiNSioiDES, Colliusia-like. 



CoLLOMiA, from Greek for glue, on account 

 of the mucilajriuous seeds. 



CoMosuji, hair-tufted. 

 CoNciNNcnvi, beautiful 

 CoNGESTA, bunched. 

 CoRDiFOLiDS, heart-leaved. 

 Cordylanthus, club-flower. 

 Corymboscs, corymbose (flowers in a cor- 



ymb). 

 CoTUL^FOLiA, Cotula-leaved. 

 Crassifolia, thick-leaved. 

 Crenatus, crenate. 

 Cressa, Cretan woman. 

 Cretica, Cretan. 

 Crocea, yellow; safi'ron-colorcd. 

 Crotellarle, rattle-pod. 

 Cuneatds, wedge-shaped. 

 CuRViPES, curved-pedicel. 

 Cyngglgssum, hound's-tongue. 

 Cypripedium, Venus's slipper. 

 Cytisoides, like snail-clover. 



Datura, an altered Arabic name. 

 Decorum, comely; pretty. 

 Delphinium, dolphin. 

 Demissa, lowly; humble. ' 



Dendromecon, tree-poppy. 

 Densiflorus, dense-flowering. 

 Densifolia, densely-leaved. 

 Dent ATA, dentate; notched. 

 Denticulata, denticulate; finely toothed. 

 Dicentra, twice-spurred; two spurs. 

 DicnoTOMUS, two-forked. 

 Discolor, variable (as to color or form). 

 DrvARiCATA, spreading. 



DODECATHEON, twelve gods. 



DouGLASii, David Douglas, a Scottish ex 



plorer of the Botany of this coast. 

 DuMOSA, bushy. 



EcHiNOSPERMUM, hedgchog-seed. 

 Elegans, elegant; beautiful. 

 Ellisia, John Ellis, an English botanist. 

 Emarginata, emarir»'\ate ; notched. 



