50 BOTANICAL NAMES 



Cabbage. French, through L. " caboche " (round- 

 headed) ; the well-known vegetable. 

 Caber (ka-ber). Gaelic. " Caber " (the trunk of a 



tree) ; is the pole used in one of the Highland 



games. 

 Cactus (kak-tus). L. name for some sort of prickly 



plant ; now applied to a large family of plants 



having fleshy, prickly leaf and stem. 

 Caducous (ka-du-kus). L. adj., "falling early"; a 



tendency for leaf or petal to fall off early. 

 Caerulium (se-ru-li-um). L. " Caerulus " (sky-blue); 



blue. 



Caesius (se-zhi-us). L. adj., " grey "; bluish-grey. 

 Casspitosa (ses-pi-toza). L. " Caespitem " (a knot or 



tuft) ; applied to plants which grow in tufts. 

 CakHe (ka-kil). Name for Sea-Rocket. The word is 



an old Arabic name for this or some similar plant. 



Bot. name for one of the groups. 

 Caladium (ka-la-di-um). G. " Kalos " (beautiful); 



name of some variegated foliage plants. 

 Calamagrostis (kal-am-ag-ros-tis). G. " Kalam " (a 



reed); " agrostis " (of the field). Bot. name for 



Small-Reed group. 



Calamint (ka-la-mint). Eng. for Calamintha. 

 Calamiiitha (kal-a-min-tha). G. " Kala " (good); 



" mintha " (mint). Bot. name for Calamint group. 

 Catamites (kal-am-i-tes). L. "Calamus" (a red); 



name given to some fossil stems found in the Coal 



Measures, and so called because they resemble 



gigantic reeds. 



