GLOSSARY OF GENEEIO AND SPECIFIC NAMES. 



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CaPSELLA, little-pod. 



Cardamine, heart-cure. 



Cardixalis, cardinal; chief. 



Carduacea, thistle-like. 



Carolixense, Carolina. 



Carolixianum, Carolina. 



Castilleia, Castillejo, a Spanish botanist. 



Castilleioides, Castilleia-like. 



Ceaxothus, old name. 



Cextraxthifolius, Centranthus-leaved. 



Cerasiformis, cherry-like. 



Cerastium, from Greek for a horn (refer- 

 ring to the horn-shaped pods). 



Cercocarpus, taiied-fruit. 



Chammissoxis, a. von Chamisso, a poet 

 and botanist who visited this coast 

 with Eschscholtz early in this century. 



Cheiraxthifolia, wallflower-leaved. 



Cheiraxthus, Arabic name. 



Chilexsis, Chili. 



Chimaphila, winter-lover. 



Chlorogalum, greenish milk. 



Chrysanthemifolia, Crysanthemum- 

 leaved. 



Chrysaxtha, golden-flowered. 



CiLiATA, hair-fringed. 



C.jRojF.A, Circe, the enchantress. 



CiRCiXATA, coiled; crosier-like. 



Clarkia, General Wm. Clarke, who 

 crossed the continent in 1803-1808. 



Claytoxia, Dr. John Clayton, an early 

 botanist of Virginia. 



Clematis, ancient name of a climbing 

 plant. 



Clixtoxia, Governor De "Witt Clinton, of 

 New York. 



CoLLixsiA, Zaccheus Collins, of Philadel- 

 phia. 



CoTiLixsioiDES, Collinsia-like. « 



CoLLOiMiA, from Greek for glue, on account 

 of the mucilacciuous seeds. 



CoMOSUM, hair-tufted. 

 CoxciNXUM, beautifuL 

 CoxGESTA, bunched. 

 CoRDiFOLius, heart-leaved. 

 CoRDYLAXTHUs, club-flower. 

 CoRYJiBosus, corymbose (flowers in a cor- 

 ymb). 

 CoTUL^FOLiA, Cotula-leaved. 

 Crassifolia, thick-leaved. 

 Crexatus, crenate. 

 Cressa, Cretan woman. 

 Cretica, Cretan. 

 Crocea, yellow; safi'ron-colored. 

 Crotellarle, rattle -pod. 

 Cuxeatds, wedge-shaped. 

 CuRViPES, curved-pedicel. 

 Cyxoglossctm, hound's-tongue. 

 Cypripedium, Venus's slipper. 

 C\TisoiDES, like snail-clover. 



Datura, an altered Arabic name. 

 Decorum, comely; pretty. 

 Delphixium, dolphin. 

 De^ussa, lowly; humble. 

 Dexdromecox, tree-poppy. 

 Dexsiflorus, dense-flowering. 

 Dexsifolia, densely-leaved. 

 Dextata, dentate; notched. 

 Denticulata, denticulate; finely toothed. 

 Dicextra, twice-spurred; two spurs. 

 DiCHOTOMCS, two-forked. 

 Discolor,- variable (as to color or form). 

 DiVARiCATA, spreading. 

 Dodecatheox, twelve gods. 

 DouGLASii, David Douglas, a Scottish ex- 

 plorer of the Botany of this coast. 

 DuMOSA, bushy. 



Echixospermum, hedgehog-seed. 

 Elegaxs, elegant; beautiful. 

 Ellisia, John Ellis, an English botanist. 

 Emargixata, emarginate; notched. 



