GLOSSARY OF GENERip AND SPECIPIO NAMES. 



Capsella, little-pod. 



Cardamine, heart-cure. 



Cardinalis, cardinal; chief. 



Carduacea, thistle-like. 



Carolinense, Carolina. 



Carolikianum, Carolina. 



Castilleia, Castillejo, a Spanish botanist. 



Castilleioides, Castilleia-like. 



Ceanothus, old name. 



Centranthifolius, Centranthus-leaved. 



Cerastformis, cherry-like. 



Cerastium, from Greek for a horn (refer- 

 ring to the horn-shaped pods). 



Cercocarpus, tailed-fruit. 



Chammissonis, a. von Chamisso, a poet 

 and botanist who visited this coast 

 with Eschscholtz early in this century. 



Cheiranthifolia, wallflower-leaved. 



Cheiranthus, Arabic name. 



Chilensis, Chili. 



Chimaphila, winter-lover. 



Chlorogalum, greenish milk. 



Chrysanthemifolia, Crysanthemum- 

 leaved. 



Chrtsantha, golden-flowered. 



CiLiATA, hair-fringed. 



CmcaiA, Circe, the enchantress. 



CiRClNATA, coiled; crosier-like. 



Clarkia, General Wm. Clarke, who 

 crossed the continent in 1803-1806. 



Claytonia, Dr. John Clayton, an early 

 botanist of Virginia. 



Clematis, ancient name of a climbing 

 plant. 



Clintonia, Governor De Witt Clinton, of 

 New York. 



CoLLiNSiA, Zaccheua Collins, of Philadel- 

 phia. 



CoLLiNSioiDES, Collinsia-lillfe. 



CoLLOMiA, from Greek for glue, on account 

 of the mucilaginous seeds. 



CoMOSUM, hair-tufted. 

 CoNCiNNUM, beautiful 

 CoNGESTA, bunched. 

 Cordifolius, heart-leaved. 

 CoRDYLANTHUS, club-flower. 

 CoRYMBosus, corymbose (flowers in a cor- 

 ymb). 

 CoTULjEFOLiA, Cotula-leaved. 

 Crassifolia, thick-leaved. 

 Crenatus, crenate. 

 Cressa, Cretan woman. 

 Cretica, Cretan. 

 Crocea, yellow; saff'ron-colored. 

 Crotellarle, rattle-pod. 

 CuNEATUS, wedge-shaped. 

 CuRViPES, curved-pedicel. 

 Cynoglossctm, hound's-tongue. 

 Cypripedium, Venus's slipper. 

 Cytisoides, like snail-clover. 



Datttra, an altered Arabic name. 

 Decorum, comely; pretty. 

 Delphinium, dolphin. 

 Demissa, lowly; humble. 

 Dendromecon, tree-poppy. 

 Densiflorus, dense-flowering. 

 Densifolia, densely-leaved. 

 Dektata, dentate; notched. 

 Denticclata, denticulate; finely toothed. 

 DiCENTRA, twice-spurred; two spurs. 

 DiCHOTOMns, 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, hcdgehog-seed. 

 Eleoans, elegant; beautiful. 

 Ellisia, John Ellis, an English botaniat. 

 Emarginata, emarginate; notched. 



