198 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 



Caducous, dropping off very early, compared with other parts ; as the calyx in the 



Poppy, falling when the flower opens. 

 Cairuleous, blue. Ccerulescent, becoming bluish. 

 Ccespitose, or Cespituse, growing in turf-like patches or tufts. 

 Calathiform, cup-shaped. 



Calcarate, furnished with a spur (calcar), 86, 87. 



Calceolate or Calceiform, slipper-shaped, like one petal of the Lady's Slipper. 

 Callose, hardened ; or furnished with callosities or thickened spots. 

 Calvous, bald or naked of hairs. 



Calycijlorus, when petals and stamens are adnate to calyx. 

 Calycine, belonging to the calyx. 

 Calyculate, furnished with an outer accessory calyx (calyculus) or set of bracts 



looking like a calyx, as in true Pinks. 

 Calyptra, the hood or veil of the capsule of a Moss, 163. 

 Calyptrate, having a calyptra. 



Calyptriform, shaped like a calyptra or candle-extinguisher. 

 Calyx, the outer set of the floral envelopes or leaves of the flower, 14, 79. 

 Cambium, Cambium-layer, 140. 

 Campanulate, bell-shaped, 90. 

 Campy lotropous, or Campylotropal. curved ovules and seeds, 111. Campylospermous, 



applied to fruits of Umbelliferae when the seed is curved in at the edges, 



forming a groove down the inner face; as in Sweet Cicely. 

 Canaliculate, channelled, or with a deep longitudinal groove. 

 Cancellate, latticed, resembling lattice-work. 

 Candidus, Latin for pure white. 

 Canescent, grayish-white; hoary, usually because the surface is covered with fine 



white hairs. Incanous is whiter still. 

 Canous, whitened with pubescence; see incanous. 



Capillaceous, Capillary, hair-like in shape; as fine as hair or slender bristles. 

 Capitate, having a globular apex, like the head on a pin. 

 Capitellate, diminutive of capitate. 



Capitulum, a close rounded dense cluster or head of sessile flowers, 74. 

 Capreolate, bearing tendrils (from capreolus, a tendril). 

 Capsule, a dry dehiscent seed-vessel of a compound pistil, 122. 

 Capsular, relating to, or like a capsule. 

 Capture of insects, 154. 



Carina, a keel ; the two anterior petals of a papilionaceous flower, 92. 

 Carinate, keeled, furnished with a sharp ridge or projection on the lower side. 

 Cariopsis, or Caryopsis, the one-seeded fruit or grain of Grasses, 121. 

 Carneous, flesh-colored; pale red. Carnose, fleshy in texture. 

 Carpel, or Carpidium, a simple pistil or a pistil-leaf, 106. 

 Carpellary, pertaining to a carpel. 



Carpology, that department of botany which relates to fruits. 

 Carpophore, the stalk or support of a pistil extending between its carpels, 113. 

 Carpos, Greek for fruit. 



Cartilaginous, or Cartilagineous, firm and tough in texture, like cartilage. 

 Caruncle, an excrescence at the scar of some seeds, 126. 

 Carunculate, furnished with a caruncle. 



Caryophyllaceous, pink-like: applied to a corolla of 5 long-clawed petals. 

 Cassideous, helmet-shaped. 

 Cassus, empty and sterile. 



Catenate, or Catenulate, end to end as in a chain. 

 Catkin, see Ament, 75. 

 Caudate, tailed, or tail-pointed. 



Caudex, a sort of trunk, such as that of Palms; an upright, rootstock, 39, 44. 

 Caudicle, the stalk of a pollen-mass, &c. 

 Caulescent, having an obvious stem, 36. 



