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spreading like a star, the three outer pu- 

 bescent ; stamens six. The ovary is one- 

 ceiled with three ovules. [J. T. S.] 



CALEE KTJSTOOREE. An Indian name 

 for the Musk Ochro, Abelmoschus mos- 

 chatus. 



CALELYNA. A section of Evelyna. 



CALENDULA. The name of a genus 

 belonging to the composite order, having 

 numerous flowers grouped on a nearly flat 

 surface, those at the circumference strap- 

 like, in two or three rows and with pistils 

 only, those in the centre tubular with 

 stamens only, both kinds hairy at the 

 base, the whole surrounded on the outside 

 by a series of scale-like leaflets. The name 

 Calendula is founded on the circumstance 

 that species may be in flower on the 

 calends of every month. They are annual or 

 perennial, chiefly natives of the Mediter- 

 ranean borders, with yellow or orange- 

 yellow flowers, usually of a powerful, not 

 pleasant odour. One of them, C. officinalis, 

 the Pot Marigold, formerly enjoyed repute 

 as a domestic remedy, being used in form- 

 ing a distilled water or vinegar. [G. D.] 



CALF'S SNOUT. Antirrhinum Oron- 

 tium. 



CALICATE. Furnished with a calyx. 



CALICINAR. When a flower becomes 

 double by an increase in the number of 

 lobes of the calyx or sepals. 



CALICIUM, CALICIEI. A genus and 

 family of lichens known at once by the 

 sporidia forming ultimately a dusty stra- 

 tum over a little orbicular disc which is 

 either nearly sessile or supported upon a 

 short stalk so as to look like a little nail 

 more or less completely driven home. The 

 sporidia, as in other lichens, are at first 

 contained in asci, which soon, however, 

 disappear. One of the most familiar 

 species is C. inquinans, which is common 

 upon gate-posts, and attracts notiGe from 

 leaving the print of its discs upon the 

 finger when touched. The crust is some- 

 times very obscure or almost obsolete. 

 All the species of Calicium are, we believe, 

 found in Europe, though several of them 

 occur elsewhere. [M. J. B.] 



CALICO BUSH. Kalmia latifolia. 



CALICULAR. A term of aestivation, 

 when the outer bracts of an involucre are 

 much shorter than the inner. 



CALIMERIS. The generic name of 

 plants belonging to the composite order, 

 having the flowers in heads, those at the 

 circumference in one row, strap-like, the 

 heads surrounded externally by two to 

 four rows of nearly equal scale-like leaves. 

 The surface supporting the flowers has 

 numerous four-cornered pits or depres- 

 sions toothed at the angles. The fruit is 

 flat and hairy- The name Calimeris is of 

 Greek derivation, and indicates general 

 beauty of parts. The species are perennial 

 herbs, natives of middle and Northern 



Asia, with the leaves entire ortoothed and 

 cut at the margin ; the heads of flowers 

 yellow in the middle, and white or blue at 

 the circumference. [G. D.] 



CALIPHRURIA. A genus of amaryl- 

 lids, forming a link between Eurycles and 

 Griffinia, and having, except in the inflo- 

 rescence, much the appearance of Eucrosia. 

 The species, C. Hartwegiana, has ovate 

 bulbs, petiolate depressed perennial oval 

 acuminate somewhat plaited leaves, with 

 a blade six inches long or more, a glaucous 

 scape a foot high bearing an umbel of 

 about seven subdeclinate flowers, having a 

 green tube and white limb. The tube of 

 the perianth is narrowly funnel-shaped 

 and nearly straight, the limb regular with 

 the segments turned back in the form of 

 a star, the sepaline ones rather the broader. 

 The filaments of the six stamens are in- 

 serted at the base of the segments of the 

 perianth, and have a white bristle on each 

 side, and they are associated with a straight 

 style terminated by a somewhat recurved 

 three-lobed stigma. C. Hartwegiana is a 

 native of New Grenada. [T. M.] 



CALLA. A genus of Orontiacece, con- 

 sisting of herbaceous marsh plants with 

 creeping or floating stems, heart-shaped 

 entire leaves, the stalks of which emerge 

 from a sheath. The flowers cover a spadix, 

 which is protected by a flat spathe, the 

 flowers themselves having neither calyx 

 nor corolla. The upper flowers are female, 

 consisting of a one-celled ovary, from the 

 base of which arise the ovules ; the lower 

 flowers are hermaphrodite with numerous 

 thread-shaped stamens, flattened and di- 

 lated at the top, and springing from 

 below the ovary. The species are natives 

 of Northern Europe and North America, 

 and possess acrid caustic properties. The 

 rootstocks of G. palustris yield eatable 

 starch, prepared by drying and grinding 

 them, and then heating the powder till the 

 acrid properties are dissipated. [M. T. M.] 



CALLA D'ETHIOPIE. (Fr.) Bichardia 

 cethiopica. 



CALLCEDRA-WOOD. The timber of 

 Flindersia australis. 



CALLERYA. The name formerly given 



to a plant of the leguminous family, but 



now found to be a species of Milletia, and 



• perhaps the same as M. nitida, which is, 



like this, a native of NE. China. It is 



j a small tree, with alternate unequally pin- 



I nate leaves, about a foot long, with two 



pairs of ovate leaflets from one to three 



inches in length; numerous flowers in 



terminal panicles; and two-valved pods 



one to three inches long, containing one 



■ to five seeds, covered externally with a 



! velvety pubescence. [A. A. B.] 



i CALLIANDRA. A beautiful genus of 

 leguminous plants peculiar to America, 

 found as far north as California, and ex- 

 tending southwards to Buenos Ayres. A 

 few are herbs not more than a foot high, 



[ but the greater portion shrubs or small 



