GLOSSARY OF GENEEIO AND SPECIFIC NAMES. 



Capsella, little-pod. 



Cardamine, heart-cure. 



Caedinalis, cardinal; chief. 



Carduacea, thistle-like. 



Caeolinense, Carolina. 



Carolinianum, Carolina. 



Castilleia, Castiliejo, a Spanish botanist. 



Castilleioides, Castilleia-like. 



Ceanothus, old name. 



Centeanthifolius, Centranthus-leaved. 



Cerasiformis, cherry-like. 



Ceeastium, from Greek for a horn (refer- 

 ring to the hom-shaped pods). 



Cercocaepus, tailed-fruit. 



Chammissonis, a. von Chamisso, a poet 

 and botanist who visited this coast 

 with Eschaoholtz early in this century. 



Cheiranthifolia, waMower-leaved. 



CHEiEANTHtrs, Arabic name. 



Chilensis, Chili. 



Chimaphila, winter-lover. 



Chloeogalum, greenish milk. 



CiiEysANTHEMiFOLiA, Crysanthemum- 

 leaved. 



Chrtsantha, golden-flowered. 



CiLiATA, hair-fringed. 



CiEcuA, Circe, the enchantress. 



ClEClNATA, coiled; crosier-like. 



Claekia, General Wm. Clarke, who 

 crossed the continent in 1803-1806. 



Claytonia, Dr. John Clayton, an early 

 botanist of Virginia. 



Clematis, ancient name of a climbing 

 plant. 



Cluttonia, Governor De Witt Clinton, of 

 New York. 



CoLUNSiA, Zaccheus Collins, of Philadel- 

 phia. 



CoLLiNSioiDES, Collinsia-Uke. 



CoLLOMiA, from Greek for glue, on acconnt 

 of the mucilaginous seeds. 



CoMosnii, hair-tufted. 

 CoNOiNNUM, beautiful 

 CoNOESTA, bunched. 

 CoEDiFOLiU's, heart-leaved. 

 CoEDTLANTHna, club-flower. 

 COEYMBOS0S, corymbose (flowers in a cor- 

 ymb). 

 CoTUL^FOLiA, Cotula-leaved. 

 Ceassifolia, thick-leaved. 

 Ceenatos, crenate. 

 Ceessa, Cretan woman. 

 Ceetica, Cretan. 

 Ceocea, yellojv; saffron-colored. 

 Ceotellaei^, rattle-pod. 

 Cuneatds, wedge-shaped. 

 CxjRviPBS, curved-pedicel. 

 Cynoglossum, hound's-tongue. 

 Cypeipedium, Venus's slipper. 

 Oytisoides, like snail-clover. 



Dathea, an altered Arabic name. 



Decoeum, comely; pretty. 



Delphinium, dolphin. 



Demissa, lowly; humble. 



Dendeomecon, tree-poppy. 



Densifldeus, dense-flowering. 



Densifolla, densely-leaved. 



Dbntata, dentate; notched. 



Denticulata, denticulate; finely toothed, 



Dicentea, twice-spurred; two spurs. 



DiCHOTOMUS, two-forked. 



DiscoLOE, variable (as to color or form). 



DrvARicATA, spreading. 



DODECATHBON, twelve gods. 



DouGLAsn, David Douglas, a Scottish ex 



plorer of the Botany of this coast. 

 DtJMosA, bushy. 



EcHiNOSPEEMUM, hcdgehog-seed. 

 Elbgans, elegant; beautiful. 

 Ellisia, John Ellis, an English botanist. 

 Emaeginata, emar^wiate; notched. 



