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receptacle. C. Coma aureaisin cultivation, 

 and is said to be a very common species 

 j about Cape Town ; its leaves are linear, 

 j and about half an inch long. [A. A. B.] 



CHRYSOCORYNE. A curious genus of 

 ' small annual Australian plants belonging 

 I to the composite family. They are branch- 

 ; ed from the base, and seldom exceed three 

 i inches in height. The leaves are small, 

 , linear, and covered with loose white wool ; 

 i but the most marked feature in the plants 

 ! is the arrangement of the flower-heads : 

 i these are disposed in short yellow club- 

 shaped spikes, and each flower head is al- 

 most hidden by a yellow bract, and contains 

 but two florets. The florets are tubular 

 and bi- or tridentate, an unusual circum- 

 stance in this family. The achenes are 

 ! covered with wart-like glands, and are des- 

 | titute of pappus. Five species are known ; 

 they are chiefly found in the western and 

 southern parts of Australia. [A. A. BJ 



CHRYSOCYCNIS Schlimii is a New 

 Grenada epiphytal orchid, with a thick 

 creeping rhizome, from which arise at long 

 intervals small flat pseudo-bulbs, each 

 bearing one stalked oblong leathery leaf. 

 From the base of the pseudo-bulbs rise 

 numerous short one-flowered peduncles 

 clustered in the manner of some Maxll- 

 larias. The flowers are furnished with a 

 sagittate stalked lip, and are rose-coloured 

 or dull purple, by no means yellow, as 

 shown in Reichenbach's Xenia, t. 55, and 

 as the Dame implies. The genus, if it be 

 one, is near Camaridium. 



CHRYSODIUM. A synonyme of the 

 typical species of Acrostichum, represented 

 by A. aureum. [T. MJ 



CHRYSOGLOSSUM. Under this name 

 Blume has a genus of two species only, C. 

 ornatum and villosum, inhabiting the 

 mountainous parts of Java. Both are 

 terrestrial one-leaved orchids, allied to 

 Liparis, and have fleshy subterranean 

 rhizomes. In C. villosum, a shaggy plant, 

 and the best known of the two species, the 

 leaf is large, plaited and ovate, while the 

 scape is about two feet high, bearing 

 orange and yellow flowers the size of a 

 wild pansy. 



CHRYSOGONUU. This genus of the 

 composite family differs from its allies in 

 its achenes being crowned with a two or 

 three-toothed pappus. Its only representa- 

 tive is C. virginianum, a dwarf perennial 

 herb found in many parts of the United 

 States. All its parts when young are 

 covered with hairy tomentum. It is nearly 

 stemless when it begins to flower, but 

 soon sends out several stems, some of 

 which are erect and flower-bearing, while 

 others take the form of runners and 

 creep alonp the ground. The leaves are 

 opposite on long stalks, ovate, with notched 

 margins. The flower-heads, stalked, soli- 

 tary, and terminating the branches, are 

 made up of numerous bright yellow 

 florets, those of the ray few and strap- 



shaped, and those of the disc numerous 

 and tubular. [A. A. B.] 



CHRYSOMA. A genus of North Ame- 

 rican plants of the composite family, con- 

 sidered by the authors of the Flora of 

 North America to be the same as that of 

 the golden rod (Solidago). The species are 

 perennial plants, with alternate lance- 

 shaped entire or serrated leaves, sometimes 

 furnished with pellucid dots, and they bear 

 terminal corymbs of yellow flower-heads, 

 each of which contains from six to eight 

 florets, one to three of them being strap- 

 shaped. [A. A. B.] 



CHRYSOPHYLCUM. A name expres- 

 sive of the golden colour on the underside 

 of their leaves, which the trees of this 

 genus possess. It is a group of Sapotacew, 

 and consists of trees with a milky juice, 

 alternate leaves with numerous trans- 

 verse closely aggregated ribs, and golden 

 hairs on the under surface.- The corolla 

 is somewhat companulate ; its tube bears 

 five fertile stamens and no sterile ones ; 

 the ovary is five to ten-celled with a short 

 style ; the fruit is a berry with ten cells, 

 or one only from the suppression of the 

 rest. Some of the species are grown in 

 this country for the sake of their hand- 

 some foliage ; while in the West Indies 

 the fruit of C. Cainito is esteemed a deli- 

 cacy under the name of the Star apple, in- 

 asmuch as it is of the size of a large apple, 

 while the interior, when cut across, reveals 

 ten cells, and as many seeds disposed re- 

 gularly around the centre. [M. T. MJ 



CHRYSOPSIS. A genus of annual or 

 perennial North American plants of the 

 composite family, the greater portion of 

 the species having all their parts covered 

 with villous or silky hairs. The oblong 

 or linear leaves are usually entire and 

 sessile. The showy yellow flower-heads, 

 usually terminating the branches and 

 often corymbose, have an involucre of 

 many linear scales enclosing numerous 

 florets : those of the ray strap-shaped and 

 bearing pistil only, those of the disc 

 tubular and perfect. The genus differs 

 from its allies in having the pappus of the 

 ray and disc florets similar and double, 

 the exterior short and scale-like, the 

 inner copious and capillary. C. villosa, a 

 plant with oblong hairy leaves about an 

 inch and a half long, and numerous yellow 

 flower-heads, half an inch in diameter, is 

 said to be one of the commonest plants on 

 the prairies of the Saskatchawan. C. gra- j 

 minifolia extends southwards to Mexico; j 

 its leaves are clad with beautiful close- 

 pressed silvery hairs. [A. A. B.] 



CHRYSOPTERIS. A synonyme of 

 ridebodium, a genus of ferns which in- 

 cludes Linnffius's Polypodium aureum, the 

 specific appellation seeming to have sug- 

 gested this generic name. [T. M.] 



CHRYSORRHOE. A genus of Chamaz- 

 lauciacece, consisting of a rigid shrub from 

 the Swan river, with narrow terete leaves, 

 and terminal corymbs of bright yellow 



