GLOSSARr- 209 



Carpolofiy : that department of Botany which relates lo fruits. 



Carpophore: 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 sear of some seeds ; as those of Polygala. 

 Cardnculate : furnished mth a caruncle. 



Caryophylldceous : pink -like : applied to a corolla of 5 long-clawed petals ; figi 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. 

 Caiiline: of or belonging to a stem (caulis, in Latin), p. 36. 

 Cell (diminutive CAfe) ; 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. Cdlular 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. 

 Cerealt belonging to corn, or corn-plants. 

 Cirnuous: nodding; the summit more or less inclining. 

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



glumes, &c. of Grasses. 

 Chaffg : 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; s&mQ.B.s canaliculate. 

 Oiaracter: a phrase expressing the essential marks of a species, genus, &e. 



which distinguish it from all others ; p. 180. 

 Chartdceous : of the texture of paper or parchment. 

 Chldrophyll ;■ the green grains in the cells of the leaf, and of other parts exposed 



to the light, \yhich give to herbage its gi"een color; p. 155. 

 Chrdinule : coloring -matter in plants, especially when not green, or when liquid. 

 Cicatrix : the scar left by the fall of a leaf or other organ. 

 CUiate : beset on the margin with a fringe of cilia, i. e. of hairs or bristles, like 



the eyelashes fringing the eyelids, whence the name. ' 



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

 Clrcinate : rolled inwards from the top, like a crosier, as the shoots of Ferns ; 



p. 76, fig. 1 54 ; 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. 

 Cirrhlferous, or Cirrhose ; furnished with a tendril (Latin,- cirrhus) ; as the Grapc< 



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



stalks of Virgin's-bower ; p. 37. 

 C7avs, p 175, 177. 

 Classijicafian, p. 173. 



