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 Cartilagineous : firm and tough, like cartilage, in texture. 



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



Carunculate : furnished with a caruncle. 



Caryophyttdceous : 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. 



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



Cell (diminutive Cellule) : the cavity of an anther, ovary, &c., p. 113, 119; one of 

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



Cellular tissue of plants; p. 142. Cellular Bark, 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. 



Ccrnuous : nodding ; the summit more or less inclining. 



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

 glumes, &c. of Grasses. 



Cliaffy : 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. 



CJiaracter : 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. 



Chldrophyll : 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. 



Chrdmule : 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, like 

 the eyelashes fringing the eyelids, whence the name. 



Cinereous, or Cinerdceota : 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. 



Circumscissile, 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. 



Cirrhiferous, or Cirrhose : furnished with a tendril (Latin, cirrhus) ; as the Grape- 

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

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



Class, p. 175, 177. 



Classification, p. 173. 



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