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CeVlular. Made up of little cells or 

 cavities. 



Ceno'bioti. From the Greek, signifying 

 a community ; one of Mirbel's gen- 

 era of fruits. 



Cerioii. A carceruiate fruity forming 

 one of Mirbel's genera of Iruits. 



Cerca'lls. Any grain from which 

 bread is made. (From Ceres, god- 

 dess of corn.) 



Cer'nuus. When the top only droops. 



Chaffy. Made up of short membra- 

 nous portions like chaff. 



Cha'mcpy'lhis. From the Greek ka- 

 mia, on the ground, pithiis, the pine- 

 tree. This is the specific name of 

 some plants. 



Ckan'nelUd. Hollowed out longitudi- 

 nally with a rounded groove. 



Cho'rlon. A clear limpid liquor con- 

 tained in a seed at the time of flow- 

 ering After the pollen is received, 

 this liquor becomes a perfect embryo 

 of anev/ plant. 



Cicatrice. The mark or natural scar 

 from whence the leaf has fallen. 



CiViate. Fringed with parallel hairs. 



Cine'reous. Ash-coloured. 



('ill' gens. Surrounding, girding around. 



Cir'rose. Bearing tendrils. From Cir- 

 rus, a tendril or climber. 



Clasp' in g. Surrounding a stem with 

 the base of the leaf. 



Class. The highest division of plants 

 in the system of Botany. Linnagus 

 divided all plants into 24 classes ; 3 of 

 these are now rejected, and tlie plants 

 which ihey included placed in the re- 

 maining 21 classes. The ancient bot- 

 anists knew neither methods, systems, 

 nor classes : they described under 

 chapters, or sections, those plants 

 which appeared to them to resemble 

 each Other in the greatest number of 

 relations. 



Cla'vate. Club-shaped, larger at the 

 top than the bottom. 



Clau'sus. Closed, shut up. 



Claw. The narrow part by which a 

 petal is inserted. 



Cleft. Split, or divided less than half 

 way. 



Climb'ing. Ascending by means of 

 tendrils, as grapes ; by leaf-stalks, as 

 the Clematis; by cauline radicles or 

 little fibrous roots, as the creeping 

 American ivy. 



Clinanthe. The dilated summit of a 

 peduncle, bearing flowers. The re- 

 ceptacle. 



Club-shaped. See Clavate. 



Clus'tered. See Racemed. 



CWpeale. Form of a buckler. See 

 Peltate. . 



Coad'nate. United at the base. 



Coarctate. Crowded. 



Coated. With surrounding coats or 

 layers. 



Coccineous. Scarlet-coloured. 



Cochleate. Coiled spirally, like asnaii- 

 shell. 



Coc'cum. A grain or se^d ; tricoccous. 

 3-seeded, &c. 



Cceru'leus. Blue. 



Coleop'tile. From koleos, an envelope, 

 and ptilon, a bud. 



Co'leorrhize. From koleos, an envelope, 

 and riza, a root. 



Coili'nus. Growing on hills. 



Col'oured. Different from green ; in 

 the language of botany, green is not 

 called a colour. White, which in re- 

 ality is not a colour, is so called in 

 botany. The primitive colours and 

 their intermediate shades and grada- 

 tions, are by botanists arranged as 

 follows: 

 Water-colour, hyalinus. 

 White, albas. 



Lead-colour, cinereus. 

 Black, niger. 



Brown, fuscus. 



Pitch-black, ater. 

 C Yellow, luteus. 



< Straw-colour, Jlavus. 

 f Flame-colour, fulvus. 

 ( Red, rubex. 



< Flesh-colour, incarnatus. 

 f Scarlet, coccineus. 



! Purple, purpureus. 



Violet-colour, cccruleo-purpureus, 

 i Blur, cceruleus. 



\ Green, viridis. 



White is most common in roots, 

 sweet berries, and the petals of spring 

 flowers. Black, in roots and seeds. 

 Yellow, in anthers, and the petals of 

 compound flowers. Red, in the pe- 

 tals of summer flowers and acid 

 fruits. Blue and violet-colour, in 

 the petals. Green, in the leaves and 

 caly.x. 



Columella. The central pillar in a cap- 

 sule or fruit of any kind. 



Column. The filaments in gynandrous 

 plants united with the style ; the 

 whole is termed a column. 



Co' ma. A tuft of bracts on the top of 

 a spike of flowers. 



Comose. Sessile bracts. 



Cojnvion. Any part is common, wnich 

 includes or sustains several parts sim- 

 ilar among themselves. 



Compound. Made up of similar sim- 

 ple parts. 



— flowers. Such a are in the 



class Syngenesia, having florets with 

 united anthers. 



