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CAL 



interest Calycera, Adcarpha, and Boo- 



Calycine, Calyainal.Ot or belonging to a 

 calyx; also a calyx of unusual size; or 

 having the texture of a calyx. 



Calycatus. Furnished with a calyx; or 

 where the calyx is large or remarkable. 



Calyciform. Formed like a calyx. 



Cdycaideous. Besembling a calyx. 



Calyculate. When the flower appears as 

 though it possessed a double calyx, as 

 Myoseris. 



Calyptra. Literally, an extinguisher; ap- 

 plied to the body which tips the theca of 

 a Moss, and the like; having a calyptra. 



Calyptra, (adj. Calyptrate^The, hood of an 

 Urn Moss. 



Calyx. The most external of the floral en- 

 velopes; it is called adherent or superior 

 when it is not separable from the ovary; 

 free or inferior when it is separate from 

 that part; and calyculate when it is sur- 

 rounded at the base by bracts in a ring. 

 Also the receptacle of some kinds of 

 fungi. 



Calyxulus. A partial involucre, containing 

 but one, or perhaps two flowers. Also 

 the external bracts of a capitulum, (which 

 see,) when they form a distinct ring or 

 rings. 



Calyplriformis.Lik.e a calyptra or an ex- 

 tinguisher, as the calyx of Eucalyptus. 



Camara. A carpel; the core of the Ap- 

 ple, etc. 



. Cambium. The viscid fluid which appears 

 between the bark and wood of Exogens, 

 when the new wood is forming. Also the 

 mucus of vegetation out of which all new 

 organs are produced. 



Campaniform. Shaped like a bell; the 

 same as Campanulate, which see. 



Campanulacece, (Campanula;, Sellworts, 

 Hare-bell family.) A natural order of 



CAM 



Calycifloral Gamopetalous Dicotyledons, 

 and characterizing Lindley's Campanal 

 Alliance. They are milky herbs or un- 

 dershrubs, with alternate leaves, having no 

 stipules, and usually bearing showy blue 

 or white flowers. The calyx is above the 

 ovary, (superior,) and is commonly five- 

 cleft, persistent; the corolla regular, bell- 

 shaped, and usually five-lobed, wither- 

 ing; stamens, five, distinct; style with 

 hairs. The fruit is one or two-celled, or 

 many-celled, the capsule opening by slits 

 at the sides, or by valves at the apex; 

 the seeds are numerous, albuminous, and 

 attached to a central placenta. The 

 plants are chiefly natives of the north of 

 Asia, Europe, and North America, and 

 are scarcely known in hot regions. The 

 chains of the Alps, Italy, Greece, the 

 Caucasus and the Altai, are their true 

 homes. Several are found at the Cape 

 of Good Hope. The species opening 

 with lateral slits in the seed vessels are 

 chiefly natives of the northern hemi- 

 sphere; while those opening by valves at 

 the top of their seed-vessels belong to the 

 southern hemisphere. The plants have 

 a milky, acrid juice, but the roots and 

 young shoots are often cultivated as arti- 

 cles of food, as, for example, the Ram- 

 pion, ( Campanula Eapunculus.} There are 

 twenty-nine known genera, and five hun- 

 dred and forty species. Some of them 

 furnish handsome flowers for the border. 

 Jasione, Phyteuma, Campanula, Adonopho- 

 ra, and Platycodon are examples of the 

 order. 



Campanulate. Bell-shaped, as the corolla 

 of Campanula. 



Campaniform. The same as campanulate. 



Camptotropal. An orthotropal ovule, 

 curved downward like a horseshoe, with 

 the sides adherent. See Orthotropal. 



