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Campan'ulate. Bell-form. 



Campesftris. Growing in uncultivated fields. 



Canes' cent. White or hoary. 



\Caj/ill<iry. Hair-form./ 



\^ap'itate. Growing mneads. 



Cap'sule. A .little chest; that kind of ho'low seed-vessel which be- 

 comes dry and opens when ripe j a capsule that never opens k* 

 called a samara. 



Cari'na. The keel or lower folded petal of a papilionaceous flower. 



Car'inated. Keeled, having a sharp back like the keel of a vessel. 



Carno'se. Of a fleshy consistence. 



Carpos. From the Greek Karpos, fruit. 



Caryophyl'leous. Pink-like corolla, having five petals with long claws, 

 all regular and set in a tubular calyx. 



Cat'kin. See Ament. 



COM' date. Having a tail ; as in some seeds. 



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



Caulcs'cent. Having a stem exclusive of the peduncle or scapes. 



Cau'line Growing on the main stem. 



Ca-u'lis. The main herbage-bearing stem of all plants, called in French, 

 la tige 



Ceil. The hollow part of a pericarp or anther ; each cavity in a peri- 

 carp that contains one or more seeds, is called a cell. According to 

 the number of these ceils the pericarp is one-celled, two-celled, three- 

 celled, &c. 



Cellular. Made up of little cells or cavities. 



Cerealis. Any grain from which bread is made. (From Ceres, god- 

 dess of com.) 



Ccr'nuus. When the top only droops. \l 



Chaffy. Made up of short membranous portions like chaff. 



Channelled. Hollowed out longitudinally, with a rounded groove. 



Cho'non. A clear limpid liquor contained in a seed at the time of 

 flowering. After the pollen is received, this liquor becomes a per- 

 fect embryo of a new plant. 



Cic'atrice. The mark or natural scar from whence the leaf has fallen. 



Cil'iate. Fringed with parallel hairs. 



Cine'reous. Ash-coloured. 



Cin'gens. Surrounding, girding around. 



Cir'rose. Bearing a tendril. From Cir'rus, a tendril or climbei. 



Clasp' ing. Surrounding the stem with the base of the leaf. 



Class. The highest divisions in the system of Botany. Linnaeus di- 

 vided 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, nor classes ; they 

 described under chapters, or sections, those plants which appeared 

 to them connected to each other by the greatest number of relations. 



da' vale. Club-shaped, larger at the top than at the bottom. 



Clau'svA. Closed, shut up. 



Claw. The narrow part by which a petal is inserted. 



Cleft. Split or divided less than half way. 



. Ascending by means of tendrils, as grapes ; by leaf stalks, 



