GLOSSARY. 209 



Carpology : that department of Botany which relates to fruits. 



Cdrpophore: 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. 



Caryophylfdceous : 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. 

 Cau.'ine: 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. 

 Ce'rnnous : nodding; the summit more or less inclining. 

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



glumes, &c. of Grasses. 



Chaffy : 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. 

 Character : 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. 

 Chlorophyll : 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. 1 55. 



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, ]ike 



the eyelashes fringing the eyelids, whence the name. 

 'Cinereous, or Cinerdceous : ash-grayish ; of the color of ashes. 

 Circinate : rolled inwards from the top, like a crosier, as the shoots of Ferns j 



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. 

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



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



stalks of Virgin 's-bower ; p 37. 

 C7as-s, p 175, 177. 

 Classification, p. 173. 



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