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flowers. The sepals are five in number, 

 and cut into many pilose segments ; the 

 petals Ave, serrate ; the stamens free, ten 

 fertile and ten imperfect and shorter than 

 the others ; the ovary completely covered 

 by the disc. The genus is closely allied to 

 Verticordia, but that has monadelphous 

 stamens, and the sterile ones longer than 

 the fertile. [J. T. S.] 



CHRYSOSPLBNI UM. Golden Saxifrage. 

 A small genus of unimportant herbaceous 

 plants belonging to the Saxifragacem, 

 among which they are discriminated by 

 their one-celled seed-vessel, and by being 

 destitute of petals. Two species are in- 

 digenous to Britain, and scarcely differ 

 from one another, except that one has the 

 leaves opposite, the other alternate. They 

 grow on the margins of streams, forming 

 extensive patches, and in hilly districts 

 often betray, by a line of bright green, the 

 course of a, mountain-spring which has 

 worn a narrow way for itself down the 

 slope. The roots are intermatted and send 

 up numerous delicate green very succulent 

 stems, to the height of three or four 

 inches. The leaves are roundish, some- 

 what fleshy, and sprinkled with longish 

 hairs. The flowers, which are bright 

 yellowish-green, appear in April and 

 May, growing in flat tufts at the summit 

 of the stems C. oppositifolium is the com- j 

 monest species. C. alternifolium is more ! 

 abundaut in the north. The genus is ! 

 represented in various parts of the world i 

 by plants of similar habit, none of which 

 are worthy of cultivation. In the Vosges, j 

 the species are used as a salad under 

 the name of Cresson de Roche; French, ; 

 Dorine ; German, Goldmilz. [C. A. J.] j 



CHRYSOSTEMMA. Under the name of | 

 C. tripteris is sometimes cultivated in l 

 gardens a tall smooth North American 

 herb of the composite family, with opposite 

 leaves, those on the lower part of the 

 stem pinnately five-parted, the upper ones 

 three-parted, with lance-shaped segments ! 

 one to four inches long, and having the 

 yellow-rayed flower-heads arranged in a 

 corymbose manner at the ends of the ; 

 twigs, each head one to two inches across. 

 The plant is placed by modern authors in 

 the genus Coreopsis, with the same specific 

 name, and may be recognised from others : 

 in that genus by the achenes being nar- 

 rowly-winged, with a toothed fringe at the , 

 summit of the wing. [A. A. B.] j 



CHRYSOXYLON. The name of a South 

 Bolivian tree, now referred to Howardia, i 

 which see. It derived its name from the 

 yellow colour of its wood. 



CHRYSURUS. A genus of grasses 

 belonging to the tribe Festucece. Only 

 one species is described, C. cynosuroides, 

 which is the Lamarkia aurea of some j 

 authors. This handsome dwarf-habited ' 

 annual grass is a native of the south of 

 Europe and north of Africa, and is occa- I 

 sionally cultivated in botanical gardens, ! 

 where it makes a pretty appearance during i 

 the summer months. [D. M.] > 



CHUICHUNCHULLI. The root of loni- 

 dium microphyllum. 



CHU-LAN. Chlorantlius inconspicuus, a 

 tea-scent used in China. 



CHUMBELEE. Jasminum grandiflo- 

 rum. 



CHURN-STAFF. Euphorbia heliosco- 

 pia. 



CHURRAS. The Nepalese name of the 

 resinous exudation of the Hemp, Cannabis 

 sativa. 



CHUSSALONGO. The vulnerary, Matico, 



Eupatorum glutinosum. 



CHYMOCARPITS. A genus of scandent 

 herbs belonging to the Tropceolacece. The 

 flowers consist of a coloured calyx, pro- 

 longed behind into a hollow spur, and 

 divided at the margin, in a somewhat two- 

 lipped manner, into five nearly equal lobes ; 

 a corolla of two petals inserted in the 

 mouth of the tube-like spur; and eight 

 hypogynous stamens. The sessile three- 

 lobed three-celled ovary grows into a 

 three-lobed sweet fleshy edible berry, 

 which remains attached to thefrontof the 

 persistent calyx. This black juicy berry, 

 which is not unlike in appearance and 

 flavour to the Zante or currant grape, is 

 the most remarkable peculiarity of the 

 genus, which was founded on C. pentaphyl- 

 lus, a plant of Buenos Ayres, long culti- 

 vated in our gardens. This is a handsome 

 species, with a thick fleshy fusiform tuber, 

 and smooth filiform stems, climbing se- 

 veral feet high, and furnished with alter- 

 nate stalked five-parted leaves, having 

 oblong-elliptic leaflets. The Howers are 

 solitary in the axils of the leaves, the spur 

 of the calyx funnel-shaped, above an inch 

 long, bright orange-red, the limb green, 

 marked with dark red spots. The two 

 petals are very small, purple. [T. M.] 



CHYSIS. Under this name are collected 

 about four species of orchids from tropical 

 America, with fleshy stems covered with 

 sheaths, thin-ribbed leaves, and lateral 

 spikes of large handsome white or yellow 

 flowers of the consistence of wax. The 

 finest species is Chysis bractescens. They 

 all have eight pollen masses attached to a 

 broad yellow pulverulent somewhat rect- 

 angular plate. 



CIBOTIUM. A genus of polypodiaceous 

 ferns, belonging to the Bicksoniece, among 

 which it is distinguished by having the 

 indusia or involucres two-valved, both the 

 valves being coriaceous, the outer one 

 larger and cucullate, the inner one opercu- 

 liform. They are large growing and very 

 handsome ferns, in some cases arborescent, 

 the fronds bipinnate and often glaucous 

 beneath. The fructification is remarkably 

 pretty. C. Barometz, sometimes called C. 

 glaucescens, is believed to be the Baranetz, 

 Agnus Scythicus, or Tartarian Lamb, about 

 which travellers have told so wondrous a 

 tale. This ' Lamb' consists mereiy of the 

 decumbent shaggy caudex of a kind of 



