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CRISPUM Folium, undulated from tlie mar- 

 gin of the leaf being too long for the difk, cum 

 peripheria folii major evad'it qiuvn difcus admittit, 

 ut imdulatum fiat. Folia crifpa are alwa^.'S mon- 

 ftrous productions. 



CRISTATUS fios [a crijia, a tuft or creft.] 

 creftcd, as in the Polygala. 



CRUCIFORMES Fiom {Crux, a crofs, & 

 forma'] crofs-ihaped ; confiilitig of four petala 

 regularly difpofed in the form of a crofs : they 

 conftitute the fifth clafs in Tournefoi-t, and the 

 Tctradynainia of LinnKus. 



CRYPTANTHERtE [a y.(v-7^u, occfdto, to 

 hide, & «v^05, fio<, a flower] the nineteenth clafs 

 in Royen's fyftem, comprehending thofe plants 

 whofe fructification is conccaledj w'z. part of 

 the Filices, Mujci, Algcs, & Fungi. 



CPvYPTOGAMIA [icei^^ra?, occultus, con- 

 Cealed, & Va^oc, nuptiit, nuptials] the twenty- 

 fourth clafs in the Linnican fyftem, compre- 

 hending thofe plants whofe fruftification is con- 

 cealed, either through minutenefs, or within 

 tiie fruit : nuptia chtn cehbraiitur. The orders 

 are four, viz. Filices, containing i6 genera, 

 viz. Equifetinn, (Jnodea, Gpbioglojfum.^ Ofmunda, 

 ' V Achrojrichum, 



