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Campan’ulate. Bell-form. 
Campes’tris. Growing in uncultivated fields. 
Canes’cent. White or hoary. 
Capillary. Hair-form. 
Cap’itate. Growing in heads. 
Cap’sule. A little chest; that kind of ho!low seed-vessel which be- 
comes dry and opens when ripe; a capsule that never opens is 
called a samara. 
Cari/na. The keel or lower folded petal of a papilionaceous flower. 
Car’inated. Keeled, having a sharp back like the keel of a vessel. 
Carno’se. Ofa fleshy consistence. 
Carpos. From the Greek Karpos, fruit. 
Caryophyl’leous. Pink-like corolla, having five petals with long claws, 
all regular and set in a tubular calyx. 
Cai’kin. See Ament. 
Cau’date. Having a tail; as in some seeds. 
Cau'dex. ‘The main body of a tree, or root. 
Caules’cent. Having a stem exclusive of the peduncle or scapes. 
Cau/line. Growing on the main stem. 
Cans. The main herbage-bearing stem of all plants, called in French, 
a lige. 
Cell. ‘The hollow part of a pericarp or anther; each cavity in a peri- 
carp that contains one or more seeds, is called a cell. According to 
the number of these cells the pericarp is one-celled, two-celled, three- 
celled, &c. 
Cellular. Made up of.little cells or cavities. 
Cerealis. Any grain from which bread is made. (From Ceres, god- 
dess of corn.) 
Cer’nuus. When the top only droops. 
Chaf’fy. Made up of short membranous portions like chaff. 
Chan’nelled. Hollowed out longitudinally, with a rounded groove. 
Cho’rion. A clear limpid liquor contained in a seed at the time of 
flowering. After the pollen is received, this liquor becomes a per- 
fect embryo of a new plant. 
Cic’atrice. The mark or natural scar from whence the leaf has fallen. 
CiViate. Fringed with parallel hairs. 
Cine’reous, Ash-coloured. 
Cin’gens. Surrounding, girding around. 
Cir’rose. Bearing atendril. From Cir’rus, a tendril or climber. 
Clasp’ing. Surrounding the stem with the base of the leaf. 
Class. ‘The highest divisions in the system of Botany. Linnzus di- 
vided all plants into 24 classes; 3 of these are now rejected, and the 
plants which they included placed in the remaining 21 classes. The 
ancient botanists knew neither methods, systems, nor classes; they 
described under chapters, or sections, those plants which appeared 
to them connected to each other by the greatest number of relations. 
Cla’vate. Club-shaped, larger at the top than at the bottom. 
Clau’/sus. Closed, shut up. . 
Claw. The narrow part by which a petal is inserted. 
Cleft. Split or divided less than half way. 
Climb’ing. Ascending by means of tendrils, as grapes; by leaf stalks, 
