NAMES OF PLANTS. 187 



capilla'ris; capillary or hair-like. A name applied to a 

 small species of Carex by Limieus; its leaves are 

 very slender, and its fruits are fixed to hair-like 

 pedicels. 



capita'tum; headed. Applied to a kind of cotton sedge, 

 having an almost round flower-head; ccqntt, a head. 



capreola'ta; from caiKr, a goat. Applied to Eampant 

 Fumitory. 



carina'ta ; carinated, i. e. keeled, referring to the fruit. 



carpinifolius ; hornbeam-leaved. 



carj^ophylla'cea ; clove-scented. 



castan'eus ; like a chestnut. A name applied by Smith to 

 an alpine rush, probably from its colour. 



cathar'ticus ; purging, as Buckthorn and Mountain Flax. 



cer'nuus ; bending, or looking towards the ground. 

 *cheiranthoi'des; like the Cheiranthus, or Wallflower. 

 *chloran'tha; chlor, green, antlia, flower; the Butterfly- 

 orchis, though its flowers are scarcely green. 



cicuta'rium ; from cicuta, hemlock. Applied by Smith to 

 the plant called Hemlock Stork's-bill, referring to 

 the shape of the leaves. 



cilia'ris : cilium, an eyelid, with eyelashes ; fringed. 



cilia'ta ; same as the last. 



circina'tus ; from circinuSf a pair of compasses. Applied to 

 a form of Water-crowfoot, the outline of the leaves 

 of which are circular. 



ciner'ea; ash-coloured. 



cinnamo'mea; cinnamon. Name given to a Rose, Cinna- 

 mon Rose. 



clandesti'na ; hidden, concealed. Name given to a little 

 sedge, which is " remarkable for the few flowers of its 

 fertile spikelets, which are concealed by the com- 

 paratively large membranous sheaths, as the short 

 stems are by the leaves." — Hooker and Arnott. 



