GLOSSARY. 209 



Carpology : that department of Botany which relates to fruits. 



Carpophore: the stalk or support of a fruit or pistil within the flower; as in 



fig. 276-278. 



Cartilaginous, or Cartilagfneous : firm and tough, like cartilage, in texture. 

 Caruncle : an excrescence at the scar of some seeds ; as those of Pol jgala. 

 Carunculate : furnished with a caruncle. 



Caryopht/lldceous : pink -like : applied to a corolla of 5 long-clawed petals ; fig. 200. 

 Catkin: a scaly deciduous spike of flowers, an ament; p. 81. 

 Caudate : tailed, or tail-pointed. 



Caudex: a sort of trunk, such as that of Palms ; an upright rootstock ; p. 37. 

 Caulescent : having an obvious stem ; p. 36. 

 Caulicle : a little stem, or rudimentary stem ; p. 6. 

 Catiline: of or belonging to a stem (caulis, in Latin), p. 36. 

 Cell (diminutive Cellule) : the cavity of an anther, ovary, &c., p. 1 13, 119 ; one of 



the elements or vesicles of which plants arc composed ; p. 140, 142. 

 Cellular tiss ue of plants ; p. 142. Cellular Baric, p. 152. 

 Cellulose, p. 159. 

 Centrifugal (inflorescence) : produced or expanding in succession from the centre 



outwards ; p. 82. The radicle is centrifugal, when it points away from the 



centre of the fruit. 



Centripetal: the opposite of centrifugal ; p. 79, 83. 

 Cereal: belonging to corn, or corn-plants. 

 Ce'rnuous : nodding ; the summit more or less inclining. 

 Chaff: small membranous scales or bracts on the receptacle of Compositaj ; the 



glumes, &c. of Grasses. 



Chaffy : furnished with chaff, or of the texture of chaff. 

 Chaldza : that part of the ovule where all the parts grow together; p. 122. 

 Channelled: hollowed out like a gutter; same as canaliculate, 

 diameter : a phrase expressing the essential marks of a species, genus, &c. 



which distinguish it from all others ; p. 180. 

 Chartdceous : of the texture of paper or parchment. 

 Chlorophyll : the green grains in the cells of the leaf, and of other parts exposed 



to the light, which give to herbage its green color; p. 155. 



Chrtfmule : coloring matter in plants, especially when not green, or when liquid. 

 Cicatrix : the scar left by the fall of a leaf or other organ. 

 Ciliate : beset on the margin with a fringe of cilia, i. e. of hairs or bristles, lika 



the eyelashes fringing the eyelids, whence the name. 

 Cinereous, or Cinerdceous : ash-grayish ; of the color of ashes. 

 Circinate : rolled inwards from the top, like a crosier, as the* shoots of Ferns ; 



p. 76, fig. 154; the flower-clusters of Heliotrope, &c. 

 Ctrcumscissile, or Circumcissile : divided by a circular line round the sides, as 



the pods of Purslane, Plantain, &c. ; p. 133, fig. 298, 311. 

 Circumscription : the general outline of a thing. 

 Ctrr/tiferous, or Clrrhose: furnished with a tendril (Latin, cirrhm) ; as the Grape, 



vine. Clrrhose also means resembling or coiling like tendrils, as the leaf- 

 stalks of Virgin's-bower ; p. 37. 

 Class, p 175, 177. 

 Classification, p. 1 73. 



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