CALYCIFLORiE. A sub-class of ex- 

 ogenous or dicotyledonous plants charac- 

 terised by having both calyx and corolla, 

 petals separate and stamens attached to 

 the calyx. [J. H. B.] 



CALYCINAL. Of or belonging to 

 the calyx. 



CALYCINE. Of or belonging to a 

 calyx; also a calyx of unusual size; or 

 having the texture of a calyx. 



CALTCOIDEOUS. Resembling a calyx. 



CALYCOMIS. A genus of Cunoniacece, 

 described by Don, and eight years after- 

 wards renamed by Bentham, Acrophylhtm. 

 The latter name has been generally 

 adopted, but contrary to the received 

 laws of botanical nomenclature. [J. T. S.] 



CALYCOPHYLLTTM. A genus of Cin- 

 chonacem, remarkable for one of the five 

 segments of the calyx being much larger 

 than the rest and petal-like, a peculiarity 

 observable also in an allied genus, Mhs- 

 scenda. The corolla is bell-shaped, the 

 stamens inserted into its throat ; the 

 stigmas are two, reflexed ; the fruit is an 

 oblong capsule, opening at the top to allow 

 of the escape of the numerous slightly- 

 wins-ed seeds. The plants are natives of 

 the West Indies and Brazil. [M. T. M.] 



CALYCOSERIS. The generic name of 

 a little annual herb of the composite 

 family, found by Mr. Wright in New 

 Mexico, and named after its discoverer 

 C. Wrightii. The plant has pinnatifld leaves 

 with linear segments, and yellow flower- 

 heads; and altogether it bears much 

 resemblance to Crepisvirens, a plant which 

 is very often met with in dry pasture 

 lands throughout Britain. The achenes 

 being furnished with a double pappus, the 

 outer small and cup-shaped, the inner of 

 long soft white hairs, and the receptacle 

 being furnished with numerous capillary 

 bristles, are the most marked characters 

 of the genus. [A. A. B.] 



CALYCOTOME. A genus of the legumi- 

 nous family, distinguished from that of 

 the broom by the teeth of the calyx 

 falling away early and leaving a notched 

 membranous tube. The species are all 

 thorny shrubs. G. spinosa is a stiff spiny 

 bush with trifoliate leaves and numerous 

 yellow flowers, in size like those of the 

 labm-num, but single in the axils of the 

 leaves. It is a native of Southern Europe 

 and North Africa, as are all the species, 

 and is well adapted for growing in shrub- 

 beries. It is in cultivation in England. 

 The pods of C. lanigera are covered with 

 long rusty hairs. All the parts of C. inter- 

 media, an Algerian species, are covered 

 with white silvery hairs. [A. A. B.] 



CALYCULTJS. A partial involucre, con- 

 taining but one, or perhaps two flowers. 

 Also the external bracts of a capitulum, 

 when they form a distinct ring or rings. 



CALYDOREA. The name of an irida- 

 ceous genus separated from Sisyriiichium, 



and of wlivch S. speciosum is taken as the 

 type. This plant, now called Calydorea 

 speciosa, is a beautiful bulbous herb with 

 a few narrow linear leaves, and a slender 

 subramose scape, five to six inches high, 

 bearing deep blue purple flowers with 

 a yellow centre, the segments of which are 

 spreading, the three inner ones smaller 

 than the outer. It is distinguished from 

 Sisyrinchium by its unequal instead of 

 regular perianth, the petaline divisions of 

 which are reflexed and much smaller than 

 the sepaline, its subulate free filaments, 

 and its trifld spreading style, with emar- 

 ginate-spathulate fimbriated stigmas. The 

 species is a native of Chili. [T. M.] 



CALYMELLA. Gleichenia. 



CALYMENIA,CALYXHYMENIA These 

 names occasionally met with in gardens, 

 refer to some inconspicuous plants now 

 referred to Oxybaphus. [M. T. M.] 



CALYMMODON. A small genus of 

 polypodiaceous ferns belonging to the 

 Gymnogrammece. There are three or four 

 species, found in Java and other eastern 

 islands, and consisting of small plants with 

 fasciculate thin pinnatifld fronds, growing 

 from a short erect stem, the fertile lobes 

 folded longitudinally so as to partially 

 cover the sori, which, though elongated, 

 has a tendency to the polypodioid structure. 

 The veins are simple and the sori oblong, 

 seated at the tip of the simple vein 

 which occupies each lobe. [T. M.J 



CALYPSO borealis is the most beau- 

 tiful of northern orchids, being found all 

 over the continent of Europe, America, 

 and Asia in high latitudes, growing in 

 woods, especially of firs, and appearing as 

 soon as snow has melted. It is a tuberous 

 terrestrial plant, with one leaf and one 

 flower only. The leaf is thin, many- 

 nerved, and either ovate or cordate. The 

 rose-coloured flower appears at the end of 

 a slender sheathed stem, and has some- 

 thing the appearance of a Cypripedium, 

 owing to its forming a large pouch. The 

 genus appears to be nearly related to Ccelo- 

 gyne and especially to the section Pleione. 



CALYPTRA (adj. CALYPTRATE). The 

 hood of an urn-moss. 



CALYPTRANTHES. This name of Lid- 

 flower has been applied to a genus of 

 Myrtacece, in allusion to a lid which the 

 upper part of the calyx forms, and which 

 falls off as the flower expands. These 

 flowers have five very small petals, which 

 are sometimes absent ; stamens numerous, 

 distinct; berry one-celled, one to four-seed- 

 ed. They are American and West Indian 

 shrubs, some of which are in cultivation. 

 The flower buds of C. aromatica might 

 according to Lindley, be used in the place 

 of cloves. [M. T. M.] 



CALYPTRIDIUM. A genus of the 

 purslane order, chiefly distinguished from 

 its allies by having the corolla composed 

 of three pieces joined together so as to 

 form a conical tube, three-toothed at the 



