HENDERSON'S HANDBOOK OF PLANTS. 



CUL 



Culmiferous. Producing culms. 



Cultivator. This is the general name ap- 

 plied to implements for stirring the soil, 

 other than hoes, whether used by hand 

 or by horse-power. There are scores of 

 kinds in use known under different 

 names. The one we most prefer for use 

 in garden operations for cultivating be- 

 tween rows is what is known as the Ad- 

 justable Triangular Harrow. It is of the 

 same shape as the ordinary shovel- 

 toothed Cultivator, having instead the 

 ordinary harrow teeth, (about eight 

 inches long,) from ten to fourteen in num- 

 ber. This implement can be so adjusted 

 as to work with a horse between rows, 

 either at eighteen or forty inches apart. 

 In ordinary pulverized soil the teeth sink 

 down from three to four inches, so as to 

 stir the soil to that depth. When extra 

 depth is wanted a weight is put on to 

 sink it deeper. The same implement is 

 made light enough to use by hand, hav- 

 ing a wheel in front. When soils are al- 

 lowed to get weedy, the shovel-toothed 

 Cultivators answer the purpose better 

 than the harrow toothed. 



Cultrate, CuUriform. Shaped like a prun- 

 ing-knife, as in Crassula cultrata. 



Cumulate. Heaped, overflowed. 



Cuneiform-ovate. Between wedge-shaped 

 and egg-shaped. 



Cuneate, Cuneiform. Wedge-shaped; in- 

 versely triangular, with roundel angles. 



Cunieulate. Traversed by a long passage, 

 open at one end, as the peduncle of Tro- 

 pceolum. 



Cunix. The separable space which inter- 

 venes between the wood and bark of Ex- 

 ogens. The word is now obsolete. 



Cunoniacece, (Ochranthacece, Cunoniads.) 

 A family of Dicotyledons, closely allied 

 to Saxifragacece, and very generally con- 



CUR 



sidered as a tribe only of that family, dif- 

 fering more in their habit than in the 

 structure of their flowers or fruit. They 

 are shrubs or trees with opposite leaves, 

 simple or compound, and have stipules 

 between the leaf stalks. The fruit is cap- 

 sular or indehiscent. They are mostly 

 natives of tropical regions, or of the 

 southern hemisphere, and especially of 

 Australia. There are about twenty gen- 

 era and upward of a hundred species. 

 Cunonia, Belangera, Callicoma, Acrophyl- 

 lum, and Weinmannia are examples of the 

 order. 



Cupreus. Of a copper color, yellowish-red 

 with a considerable mixture of gray. 



Gupulate. Shaped like a cup. 



Cupule, Cupula, Cup. The cup or husk of 

 the Acorn, Spanish Chestnut, and simi- 

 lar plants; a collection of bracts; a sort 

 of involucre; a cup-like body found in 

 such Fungi as Peziza. 



Curl. A disease in Potatoes, referrible to 

 Chlorosis. The tubers produce deformed, 

 curled shoots, of a pallid tint, which are 

 never perfectly developed, and give rise to 

 minute tubers. It is a local disease, how- 

 ever, and its cause is not certainly known, 

 It is distinct from the curled foliage pro- 

 duced by the presence of Aphides. This 

 term is also applied to a serious disease 

 affecting the leaves of the Peach tree, in 

 which they are curled and blistered. 

 Some attribute the disease to Aphides, 

 and others to Fungi. There is no known 

 remedy but the destruction of the tree. 



Curia. Broken off, curtailed. 



Curvative. When the margins are slightly 

 turned up or down without any sensible 

 bending inwards. 



Curve-ribbed. When the ribs of a leaf de- 

 scribe curves, and meet at a point, as in 

 Plantago lanceolata. 



