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on a candle. Although called a calyx, it Cine'reous. Ash coloured. 

 is iu reality the corolla of the moss Cin'gens. Surrounding, girding around. 



Cir'rose. Bearing a tendril. From Cir'- 

 rus, a tendril or climber. 



closed. 

 Calyx. From 



the Greek, signifying a 



flower cup ; in most plants it incloses, 

 and supports the bottom of the corolla. 

 It is defined by Linmeus to be the ter- 

 mination of the outer bark. 



Cam'bium. The descending sap, which 

 every year forms a new layer of bark 

 and one of wood. It descends between 

 the bark and the wood, so that the new 

 wood is formed externally and the new 

 bark internally. 



Campari ulate. Bell-form. 



Campes'tris. Growing in uncultivated 

 fields. 



Canes' cent. White or hoary. 



Capillary. Hair-form. 



Cap'itate. Growing in heads. 



Cap'sule. A little chest ; that kind of hol- 

 low seed vessel which becomes dry and 

 opens when ripe ; a capsule that never 

 opens is called a samara. 



Carcer'ular. (From career, prison.) A 

 seed contained in a covering, whose 

 sides are compressed. One of Mirbel's 

 genera of fruits, in the order Carceru- 

 lares. 



Cari'na. The keel or lower folded petal 

 of a papilionaceous flower. 



Car'inatcd. Keeled, having a sharp back 

 like the keel of a vessel. 



Carno'se. Of a fleshy consistence. 



Carpos. From the Greek karpos fruit. 



Caryopjiyl'leous. Pink-like corolla, hav- 

 ing five petals with long claws, all regu- 

 lar and set in a tubular calyx. 



Cat' kin. See Ament. 



Can' date. Having a tail ; as iu some 

 seeds. 



Cau'dex. The main body of a tree, or root. 



Caules'cent. Having a stem exclusive of 

 the peduncle or scape. 



Can' line. Growing on the main stem. 



Clasp' ing. Surrounding the stem with 

 the base of the leaf. 



Class. The highest division of. plants in 

 the system of Botany. Linnaeus divided 

 all plants into 24 classes ; 3 of these are 

 now rejected, and the plants which they 

 included placed , in the remaining 21 

 classes. The ancient botanists knew 

 neither methods, systems, or classes ; 

 they described under chapters, or sec- 

 tions, those plants which appeared to 

 them to resemble each other in the great- 

 est number of relations. 



Cla'vate. Club-shaped, larger at the top 

 than the bottom. 



Clau'sus. Closed, shut up. 



Claw. The narrow part by which a petal 

 is inserted. 



Cleft. Split or divided less than halfway. 



Climb'ing. Ascending by means of ten- 

 drils, as grapes ; by leaf stalks, as the 

 Clematis; by cauline radicles or little 

 fibrous roots, as the creeping Ameriean 

 ivy. 



Club-shaved. See clavate. 



of all plants, called in French, la tige. 



Cell. The hollow part of a pericarp or an- 

 ther ; each cavity in a pericarp that con- 

 tains one or more seeds is called a cell. 

 According to the number of these cells 

 the pericarp is one-celled, two-celled, 

 three-celled, &c. 



Cel'lular. Made up of little cells or cavi- 

 tias. 



Ceno'bion. From the Greek, signifying a 

 community; one of Mirbel's genera of 

 fruits. 



Ccrion. A carcerulate fruit, forming one 

 of Mirbel's genera of fruits. 

 ' 



Clustered. See racemed. 



Cly'peate. Form of a buckler. See pel- 

 tate. 



Coad'nate. United at the base. 



Coat'ed. With surrounding coats or layera 



^occin'eous. Scarlet coloured. 



Coch'leate. Coited spirally, like a snail 

 shell. 



Coc'cum. A grain or seed ; tricoccous, 

 3-seeded, &c. 



Cwru'leus. Blue. 



Coleop'tile. From koleos, an envelope, and 

 ptilon a bud. 



Co 'leorrhize. From koleos, an envelope, 

 and riza, a root. 



Colli'nus. Growing on hills. 



Cau'lis. The main herbage-bearing stem Coloured. Different from green ; in the 



language of botany, green is not called a 

 colour. White, which in reality is not 

 a colour, is so called in botany. The 

 primitive colours and their intermediate 

 shades and gradations, are by botanists 

 arranged as follows : 



( Water-colour, hyalinns. 



\ White, albus. 



( Lead-colour, 



C BLACK, 

 < Brown, 

 f Pitch-black, 



cinereus. 



niger. 



fuscus. 



ater. 



luteus. 



l YELLOW, 



< Straw-colour, flavus. 



( Flame-colour, fulvus. 



CerKa'lis. Any grain from which bread is 



made. (From Ceres, goddess of corn.) 

 Cer'nuiis. When the top only droops. 

 Chaffy.' Made up of short membranous 



portions like chaff. 

 Channelled. Hollowed out longitudinally, 



with a rounded groove. 

 Cho'rion. A clear limpid liquor contained 



in a seed at the time of flowering. Af- . * u^*., r^.f,*, <.*. 



tcr the pollen is received, this liquor be- \ Violet-colour, ccBruleo-purpureug. 



comes a perfect embryo of a new plant. I 

 Cie'atricp. The mark or natural scar J BLUE, caruleus. 



from whence the leaf has fallen. j GREEN, viridis. 



Cil'iate. Fringed with parallel hairs. White is most common iu roote, iweet 



RED, 



Flesh-colour, 



Scarlet, 



( PURPLE, 



rubex. 



incarnatus. 



coccincus. 



purpureus. 



