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or having the substance of chalk, or car- 

 bonate of lime. 



Calcariform. Shaped like a calcar or spur. 

 See Calcar. 



Calceiform. Formed like a little shoe, as 

 Cypripedium. 



Calceolate. Having the form of a slipper or 

 round-toed shoe, as in Cypripedium in- 

 signe, Venus's Slipper. 



Calceous. Dead white, like chalk. 



Calicate. Furnished with a calyx. 



Calicinar. When a flower becomes double 

 by an increase in the number of lobes of 

 the calyx or sepals. 



Calicular. A term of aestivation, (which 

 see,) when the outer bracts of an involu- 

 cre are much shorter than the inner. 



Catti. Small callosities or rough protuber- 

 ances. 



Callose. Callous, hardened. 



Calloso-serrate. When serratures are callos- 

 ities. 



Callously - glandula. Having hardened 

 glands. 



Cillously-serrated. Having hardened serra- 

 tures. 



Callus, (adj. Callose.) A hardened part ; 

 anything which has acquired unusual 

 hardness and toughness; also used in the 

 sense of verruca, (which see,) meaning a 

 wart; also the hymenium, (which see,) or 

 fructifying surface of certain Fungi. This 

 term is best known as used to denote the 

 cambium that forms at the cut end of a 

 slip or cutting before the roots appear, 

 and heals the wound over. It has a gran- 

 ular or warty appearance, and hence the 

 name. 



Calvous. Quite naked; bald; having no 

 hairs, or other such processes. 



Calybio, Calybium. A hard, one-celled, in- 

 ferior dry fruit, seated in a cupule; as, 

 for example, an acorn or a hazel-nut. 



CAL 



Calycanthacece, (Calycanths.)The Carolina 

 Allspice family, a natural order of Caly- 

 cifloral Dicotyledons belonging to Lind- 

 ley's Bosal Alliance. Shrubs with square 

 stems having four woody axes (which see) 

 surrounding the central one, opposite en- 

 tire leaves without stipules, and solitary 

 lurid flowers. The calyx consists of numer- 

 ous colored sepals compounded with the 

 petals, and all united below with a fleshy 

 tube bearing numerous stamens on its 

 rim; the outer stamens open outwardly; 

 the inner ones are barren. There are 

 several ovaries, which are one-celled and 

 adherent to the caly cine tube ; the ovules 

 are one or two. The fruit consists of 

 achenes inclosed by the calyx; the seeds 

 are without albumen. The flowers have 

 an aromatic fragrance. The plants are 

 natives of North America and Japan. 

 The bark of Calycanthusjloridus (Carolina 

 Allspice, Sweet-scented or Strawberry 

 Shrub) is sometimes used as a substitute 

 for Cinnamon. There are only two known 

 genera, the Calycanthm of America and 

 the Chimonanthus of Japan, the two con- 

 taining six species. 



Calycanths. An English name for Calycanth- 

 acece. 



Calyceracece, (Boopidece.) The Calycera 

 family, a natural order of gamopetalous 

 Calycifloral Dicotyledons included in 

 Londley's Campanal Alliance. They con- 

 sist of herbs with alternate leaves with- 

 out stipules, and with flowers collected in 

 heads. The order occupies an interme- 

 diate place between Composites and Dip- 

 uacacece, differing from the former in their 

 seed, which is pendulous and albuminous, 

 as in Dipsacacece, and from the latter in 

 their anthers being united around the 

 style, as in Composites. They are natives 

 of South America, but have no special 



