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the weather ; fometimes on the old bark of trees. The recep- 

 tacks are, moft frequently, each elevated on a (lender br.lUe- 

 like ftalk, ufuaUy black, like a horfe-hair, and fo ditterent 

 from the chalky or granulated cru/l from whence they grow, 

 as to appear altogether paraf.tical. Their powder when 

 touched ftains the fingers. Sixteen fpecies are defcnbed 

 and figured in Eng. Bot, cfpecially in vol. xxxv. 



CALLICOMA, Curl. Mag. t. i8ii. See Codia. 



CALLISTACHYS, or rather Callistachya, bee 



OXYEOBIUM. .„ r /-. 1 ■ o 



CALNE. The borough and parilh ot Calne, in ibii, 

 contained 750 houfes, and 3547 perfons ; vl'^. 1621 males, 

 and 1926 females: 325 families employed m agriculture, 

 and 402 in trade and manufafturcs. 



CALOCHILUS, in Botany, from xaXof, beautiful, and 



P(;el^o;, a lip Brown Prodr. Nov. Holl. v. I. 320.— Clafs 



and order, Gynandria Monandria. Nat. Ord. Orchides. 



EiT. Ch. Calyx ringent ; two lower leaves under the 

 lip. Petals feffile, fmaller, ereft. Lip longer than the 

 calyx, feffile, pointed ; bearded at the margins and on the 

 di(l<. Anther parallel to the fl.igma, permanent. 



Herbage fmooth. Bulbs undivided, naked. Leaves few, 

 all on the ftem ; the lower one channelled, much longer than 

 the reft. Spike racemofe, lax, with prominent, reddilh, 

 rather large fioiuers. Nearly akin to Neqttia ; fee that 



article. 



1. C. cainpejlris. Br. n. I Lip not much longer than 



the calyx, with a half-lanceolate point, one-fifth its own 

 length. Column with two glands at the bafe. Bradeas 

 longer than the germen. Flowers from four to eight. — 

 Gathered by Mr. Brown at Port Jackfon, as well as in the 

 tropical part of New Holland. 



2. C. paludofus. Br. n. 2.— Lip twice the length of the 

 calyx, with a hgulate zigzag point, half its own length. Co- 

 lumn without glands. Brafteas (horter than the germen. 



Flowers from two to four Found by Mr. Brown, at Port 



Jackfon. 



CALOCHORTUS, from y-^Aoc, beautiful, and jjoeV, 

 a grafs. Furfli 240. — Clafs and order, Hexandria Trigy- 

 nia. Nat. Ord. Coro/iaria, Linn. Junci, Juff. Melanthaceie, 

 Brown. 



Efl". Ch. Corolla in fix deep fpreading fegments ; three 

 innermofl; largeft ; woolly above, with a fmooth fpot at the 

 bafe. Filaments very fhort, inferted into the bafe of each 

 fegment. Anthers ereft, arrow-lhaped. Stigmas reflexed. 

 Capfule of three cells. 



I. C. elegans. Graffy Woolly-flower. Purfh n. 1.— 

 Found by governor Lewis, at the head-waters of the 

 Koofkooflcy, North America, flowering in May. Bulb 

 foUd, globular, eaten by the natives. Leaf folitary, radi- 

 cal, graffy, ribbed, nearly fmooth, taller than the fower- 

 ftalk, which is fimple, round, fmooth, bearing two or three 

 very elegant, drooping, white Jlowers, the fize of Hypoxis 

 ereHa, on flender partial ftalis, each accompanied by a linear- 

 lanceolate bradea. The three inner fegments of the 

 corolla are covered with long down, and marked with a 

 roundifli, fmooth, purple fpot at their bafe. 



CALOGYNE, from xaXo;, handfome, and yvn, a female. 



Brown Prodr. Nov. Holl. v. i. 579. — Clafs and order, 



Pentandria Monogynia. Nat. Ord. Campanofete, Linn. 

 Campanulacee, Juff. Goodenovix, Brown. 



Eff. Ch. Calyx fuperior, in five deep equal fegments. 

 Corolla two-lipped. Anthers feparate. Style three-cleft. 

 Stigmas each with a cup-fliaped integument. Neftary a 

 gland between the two lower filaments. Capfule imper- 

 feaiy two-celled. Seeds imbricated, compreffed. 



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I. C. pilofa. Br. n. i. the only fpeciss, found by Mr. 

 Brown in the tropical part of New Holland. An annual 

 hairy plant, fmcUing when dried like our Anthoxanthum. 

 The leaves are cut or toothed ; floral ones auricled at the 

 bafe. Stalks axillary, lingle -flowered, without bniUeas ; 

 reflexed as the fruil ripens. 



This plant is feparated from Goodexia, (fee that article,) 

 folely on account of the three-cleft _/?y/c, and thrive fligmas, 

 and Mr. Brown hefitates about the propriety of the 

 meafure. 



CALOMERIA. See Humea. 



CALOPOGON, from kkXoc, handfome, and Toywv, a 

 beard. — Brown in Ait. Hort. Kew. v. 4. 204.— Clafs and 

 order, Gynandria Monandria. Nat. Ord. Orclitdete. 



Eff. Ch. Flower reverfed. Calyx and petals fpreading, 

 dift;inft. Lip ftalked; difx bearded. Style unconnefted. 

 Anther terminal, permanent ; pollen angular. 



I. C. pulchellus. Tuberous Calopogon. Ait. 

 (Limodorum tuberofum ; Linn. Sp. PI. 1345. Curt. 

 t. 116. Cymbidium pulchellum ; Swartz Nov. Ail. 

 v. 6. 75. Willd. Sp. PI. V. 4. 105. Purfli 592. 

 Boft. 208.) — Native of meadows and moffy bogs, in North 

 America, from Canada to Florida, flowering in July. An 

 elegant plant, eighteen inches high, unbranched, vi-ith a imall, 

 tuberous, white root, one flieathing fword-diaped leaf, and a 

 fimple lax^;/ff, of three or four large, beautiful,'purple^oa»iTj, 

 whofe lip bears a yellow tuft of round-headed fibres. We 

 cannot but think, with Mr. SaUfbury, Parad. 89, that this 

 IS a genuine Arethufa, agreeing precifely in habit with A. 

 bulbofa. Few orchideous genera are more natural. 



CALOSTEMMA, from xol>.o;, beautiful, and rsjii^ia, 

 a croiun. — Brown Prodr. Nov. HoU. v. i. 297. — Clafs and 

 order, Hexandria Monogynia. Nat. Ord. Spathacex, Linn. 

 Narcifi, Juff. 



E(f. Ch. Petals fix. Neftary v/ith twelve fegmw.ts, 

 bearing the ftamens. Berry globofe, vv'ith one or two feeds. 

 Diftinguifhed from Pancratium, as Mr. Brown ob- 

 ferves, chiefly by the fl:ru<9;ure of the fingle-celled germen 

 and pericarp. The flowers are fmall, not an inch long, 

 either white or purple. "Yht feeds germinate in the berry. 



n. I. 



, Mag. 

 Upf. 

 Big. 



1. C. album. Br. n. I. — Leaves elhptic -oblong, moilly 

 folitary. Barren fegments of the neftary linear, emargi- 

 nate. — Native of the tropical part of New Holland. 



2. C. purpureum. Br. n. 2 Flower-fl.alk earlier than 



the leaves. Barren fegments of the neftary triangular. — 

 Found on the fouthern coafl of New Holland. 



CALOTHAMNUS, fo named from y.aXof, beautiful, and 

 Safivo?, ajlirub, and it well deferves the ajjpellation. — Labill. 

 Nov. Holl. V. 2. 35. Brown in Ait. Hort. Kew. v. 4. 417. 

 — Clafs and order, Polyadelphia Icofandria. Nat. Ord. Hef- 

 peridee, Linn. Myrii, Juff. 



Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth half-fuperior, of one leaf, tur- 

 binate ; limb in four or five fliort, broad, deciduous fegments. 

 Cor. Petals four or five, ovate, twice the length of the calyx, 

 and alternate with its fegments. Stam. Filaments very 

 numerous, in four or five lets, oppofite to the petals, the 

 claw of each fet flattened, oblong, many times longer than 

 the corolla, fome of them either combined together, or par- 

 tially imperfeft, pinnate, or otherwife many-cleft, in the 

 upper part, with capillary fegments ; anthers terminal, in- 

 ferted by their bafe, linear-oblong, undivided. Pijl. Germen 

 in the bottom of the calyx, fmall, roundifli ; ftyle thread- 

 ihaped, ereft, fliorter than the ftamens ; ftigma acute. 

 Peric. Capfule coated with the bafe of the calyx, and firmly 

 united to the branch, roundifli, of three cells. Seeds nu- 

 merous, fmall, oblong. 



Eff. 



