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Ciliated. Margined with hairs. 



Ciliary-scabrous. Having rough ciliated 

 margins. 



Ciliately-toothed. The same as ciliato-den- 

 tate, which see. 



CHiately-plumose. Having long hairs on the 

 margin like the feathers of a quill. 



Ciliato-dentate. Toothed and fringed ; 

 when the teeth of anything are finely 

 serrated as if fringed. 



Cilio-serrate. When the serratures of any- I 

 thing end in a hair. 



Cimicine. Smelling of bugs, as Coriander. 



Cinchonacece, (Rubiacece, Cinchonads, the 

 Peru vian Bark family. ) A natural order of 

 gamopetalous (which see) Calycifloral Di- 

 cotyledons, characterizing Lindley's Cin- 

 chonal Alliance. The order is sometimes 

 considered as a sub -order of the natural 

 family of R ubiacece, or Madderworts. The 

 order consists of trees, shrubs, or herbs, 

 with simple opposite leaves, having glan- 

 dular stipules placed between the 

 bases of the leaf-stalks, (interpetiolar,) 

 and flowers arranged in panicles or 

 corymbs. The calyx is adherent, entire, 

 or toothed; the corolla is irregular; the 

 stamens are attached to the corolla. The 

 ovary is two-celled; style one. The fruit 

 is inferior, either dry or succulent, 

 splitting into two, or not opening; the 

 seeds are either definite in number, or 

 numerous, containing a small embryo in 

 horny albumen. They are found chiefly 

 in tropical regions, where they constitute 

 about one twenty-seventh of the flower- ; 

 ing plants. The plants furnish many im- 

 portant products. They supply rem- i 

 edies for intermittent fevers, some are 

 emetic and purgative, while others act in 

 strengthening the tone of the stomach. 

 The famous Peruvian Bark or Quinine is 

 yielded by species of Cinchona, which 



Cffi 



grow in the Andes, between three thou- 

 sand and nine thousand feet above the 

 level of the sea. Coffea Arabica supplies 

 Coffee, which is the hard albumen of 

 the seeds. From Cephaelis Ipecacuanha we 

 get the well-known Ipecacua-n root, so 

 commonly used as an emetic. Among 

 flowering plants may be mentioned the 

 Gardenias, well known for their delicious 

 fragrance, and also the Ixoras. Cincho- 

 na, Coffea, Cephaelis, Ixora, Pentas, Gar- 

 denia, Musscenda, are examples of this or- 

 der. , 



Cinchonads. An English term for Cincho- 

 nacece. 



Cinctus. A term applied to albumen when 

 surrounded by an annular embryo. 



Cinenchyma. That kind of tissue in which 

 latex, (which see,) or the proper juice of 

 plants, is supposed by some to be con- 

 veyed from place to place . It is proba- 

 bly a f onn of the intercellular passagea 



Cinereous, Cineraceous. Ashy gray; a mix- 

 ture of white and black. 



Cinerously-canescent. Between white and 

 ash-colored. 



Ginerouxly-glaucous. Between sea-green 

 and ash-colored. 



Cinerously-pul)escent. Covered with gray 

 pubescence. 



Cinnabar. Scarlet touched with orange. 



Cinnabar inous. The same as Cinnabar. 



Cnnidinomeus. The color of cinnamon. 



Circmal. Resembling a circle. 



Circinalis, Circulate. Bent like the head of 

 a crosier, as in the young leaf of a Fern 

 when it begins to grow. 



Circinately-re volute. Curled round like a 

 circle. 



Gircumpositio. A technical term for what 

 gardeners call a layer, a branch laid into 

 the ground, or layered, in order that it 

 may strike root. See Propagation. 



