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Carpology : that department of Botany which relates to frUitSi 



Cdrpophore: the stalk or support of a fruit or pistil within the flower; as in 



fig. 276-278.- - ; 

 Cariildginous, xiT CattilagineotfS }6rm and tough, like cartilage, in texture. 

 CdruncU ; an excrescence at the scar of some seeds ; as those of Folygala. 

 Cardnculate : famished with a caruncle: 



Caryophj/lldceous : pink-tike :• applied to a corolla of 5 loilg-clawed. petals ; fig. 200. 

 Catkin: a scaly deciduous spike of flowers, an amenti p:Sl. 

 Caudate: tailed, or tail-pointed. 



Caudex : a sort of trunk, such as that of Falms ; an upright rootstock ; p. 37. 

 Caid€scent : having an obvious stem ; p. 36. 

 CaHlicle : a little stem, or rudimentary stem ; p. 6. . 

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

 Celt (diminutive Cellule): the cavity of an anther, ovary, &c., p. 1 13, 119 j one of 



the elements or vesicles of which plants are composed j p. 140, 142. 

 CMular tissue ot ■plants ; p. 142. Cellular Bark, p, 152, 

 Cellulose, p. 1 59. 

 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. 

 Cereal : belonging to corn, or corn-plants. 

 C&nuous :. nodding ; the summit more or less inclining. 

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



glumes, &c. of Grasses. 

 Chaffy : 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; same as cana(icidate. 

 Character: a phrase expressing the essential marks of a species, genus, &a 



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, which give to herbage its green cplor ; p. 155. 

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

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

 Ctliate : beset on the margin with a fringe of cilia, i, <;. of hairs or bristles, lik* 



the eyelashes fringing the eyelids, whence the name. 

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

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



p. 76, fig.154; the flower-clusters of Heliotrope, &c. 

 Circumscissile, or Circumcissile : divided by a circular line round the sides, as 



the pods of Furslane, Plantain, &c, ; p. 133, fig. 298, 311. 

 Circumscription : the general outline of a thing. 

 Cirrhiferous, or Cirrkote: furnished with a tendril (Latin, cirrhus) ; as the Grape. 



vine. Cirrhose also moans resembling or Coiling like tendrils, as the leaf- 

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

 Oass, p. 175, 177. 

 Classijication, p. 173. 



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