380 CANNABIS, CASTANF.A. 



american'a (E b. Au. 4), leaves ovate lanceolate, long acuminate ; lower ones 

 sub-cordate, with the petioles ciliate ; flowers axillary, nearly sessile, in a 

 terminal leafy raceme ; corolla sub-rotate ; style exsert. Cultivated. 2. f. 

 20-5. CANNABIS. 53. 98. 



Exotic. 



fati'va (hemp. G. Au. <3), stem pilose ; leaves petioled, digitate ; leafets lance- 

 olate, serrate, pilose ; staminate flowers solitary, axillary ; pistillate one* 

 spiked. 410 f. 



51. CAPSICUM. 28. 41. 



Exotic. 



an"nuum (guinea pepper, red pepper, cayenne pepper, y-g. w. Au. G), item 

 herbaceous ; peduncles solitary. From South America. 10 18 i. 



142. CARDAMINE. 39. 63. 



pennsylva'nica (American water cress. O. w. M. 4), glabrous, branching ; 

 leaves pinnate ; leafets roundish oblong, obtuse, tooth angled ; silique nar- 

 row, erect. S. 



171. CARDUUS. 49. 54. 



pectina'ttu (E. p. 4 ), unarmed ; leaves decunrent, lanceolate, pectinately pinna- 

 tifid ; peduncles almost leafless, terminal, very long, about 1 flowered ; 

 flowers nodding, often discharging the pollen ; scales of the calyx linear 

 spreading. 



193. CAREX. 3. 9. 



tter"ilis (barren sedge. O. M. 4), spikelets in fives, sessile, approximate ; fruit 

 ovate, acuminate or somewhat beaked, 2 cleft, 3 sided compressed, scabrous 

 at the margin ; equalling the ovate acutish scale. 8 i. Wet. N. 

 retrqfl,ex"a (O. M. 4), apikelets about in fours, alternate, ovate sub-approximate, 

 sessile, bracted ; fruit ovate acutish, 2 toothed, margin glabrous or scabrous, 

 reflex spreading, about equal to the ovate acute scale. 1 f. Woods. >'. 

 171. CARTHAMUS. 49. 54. 



Exotic. 



tincto'rius (false saffron, safflower. y. J. ), leaves ovate, entire, serrate 

 aculeate. 



52. CARUM. 45. 60. 



Exotic. 



cu'riti (caraway, w. S ), stem branching ; leaves with ventricose sheaths ; par- 

 tial involucrum none. \ 

 1912. CARYA. 50. 94. 



al"ba (shag walnut, shag bark hickory, O. M. V ), Icafets about?, long petioled, 

 lance oblong, acuminate, sharply serrate, villose beneath ; the terminal leafet 

 essile ; araent filiform, glabrous ; fruit globose, a little depressed ; nut com- 

 pressed, oblique. 5. 



101. CASSIA. 33. 93. 



mariland"ica (wild senna, O. y. Au. 4), somewhat glabrous ; leaves in 8 pairs, 

 lance oblong, mucronate ; flowers in axillary racemes, and in terminal 

 panicles ; legumes linear, curved. An excellent mild cathartic. B. River 

 alluvion. 2 4 f. 



chatruKcrisfa (cassia, partridge pea. E. y. Au. ), somewhat glabrous ; leaves 

 linear, in many pairs, the glands on the petioles sub-pedlcelled ; two of the 

 petals spotted : legumes pubescent. A most elegant plant. 8 16i. Dry 

 sand, &c. . 



nic"titoris (E. y. Ju. ^ ), spreading, pubescent ; leaves in many pairs, linear ; 

 glands of the petioles pedicelled ; peduncles short, supra-axillary, 2 or 3 

 flowered ; flowers pentandrous. The leaves of this species, and of the cha- 

 maecristi, possess a considerable degree of irritability. 12 i. 

 Exotic. 



tenn"a (Egyptian senna. Q), leaves in 6 pairs : petioles glandless ; legume 

 reniform. 



1912. CASTANEA. 50. 99. 



america'na (chesnut. O. g. J. *? ), leaves lance-oblong, sinuate serrate, with the 

 erratures mucronate, glabrous both sides. Large tree. S. 



