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CAPITATUS Flosi as in the Mentha piperi- 

 ta, aquatica^ & Thymus ferpyllunii See Capitulum. 



CAPITULUM [dim. a caput, ahead] a fpe- 

 cies of inflorefcence, in which the flowers arc 

 firmly connedled on the fummit of the pedun- 

 culus, fo as to form a kind of knob or head, 

 as in the Gomphrena. A Capitulum is fubrotun- 

 dum, globojum, dimidiatum, foliofum, or nudum. 



CAPREOLUS [dim. acaprea, a branch that 

 produces tendrils]. A tendril. See Clrrhus. 

 ProceJJus planta filamentoft qulbus ilia vicinis corpO' 

 ribus alUgatur. 



• CAPSULA, a little cheft, or cafket ; a hollow 

 Pericarpium which naturally feparatcs in fome 

 determinate manner. Its feveral members arc 

 called Valvula, DiJJepimentum, Columella, Locu- 

 lamentum. 



CARINA, the keel of a boat or flilp ; the 

 inferior petalwn of a papilionaceous corolla, 



CARINATUM Folium {carina, the keel or 

 bottom of a fhip] ft pars prona difci prominet Ion- 

 (ritudinalitcr, w^hen the inferior difk or back of 

 die leaf refembles the keel of a fliip. 



Carinatu?n 



