Calyx. The flower-cup, or outer (and sometimes the only) covering of a flower. usually green.
Cfunpa n elate ; in the form of a bell.
Campylotropous ovule, or seed. Where the ovule curves upon itself, and thus brings the orifice, or apex, near to the fnniculus.
Canaliculate ; channelled or furrowed.
ant ; whitish.
Canescent. Hoary; clothed with a whitish or grey pubes cence.
Capillaceous, or capillary; long and fine, or slender, like a hair.
Capitate. Head-form; growing in a head, or globular mass.
resembling, or being, a capsule.
Capsule. A dry, hollow seed-vessel, usually opening by regular valves and definite seams.
Carina; keel.
Carinate ; keeled: having a ridge on the back, like the keel of a boat.
Carnose. Fleshy ; more firm than pulp.
Carpel. A little fruit; usually a partial pistil, or constitu ent portion of a compound fruit.
Carpophore. A slender central axis, bearing the carpels, as in Unibelliferce.
Cartilaginous; hard, yet somewhat flexible. like gristle. Caruncle. A fleshy excrescence, sometimes found at the hilum of seeds.
Caryopsis. A fruit where the pericarp is very thin, inde hiscent, and closely adhereut to the surface of the seed, as in the grasses, C yperacecs, etc.
Catkin ; (See Ament.) Cauda ; a tail. Caudate ; having a tail, or tail-like ap pendage.
Caules cent ; having an evident or true stem.
Cauline ; belonging tu, or growing on, the main stem. Cellular; made up of little cells, or cavities, formed of membranaccous sacs.
Cellular plants. The lower order of plants (including the mosses, and those below them), composed exclusively of cellular tissue.
Centrifugal inflorescence; where the central flower of a cyme precedes the others ; i. e. the flowering commences at the centre and extends successively to the circumfer ence.
Centripetal inflorescence; where the outer flowers of a corymb, or umbel precede the inner ones ; i. e. the flow ers expand in succession, from the circumference to the centre.
Cephaloid ; head-shaped.
Cereal. Pertaining to Ceres; belonging to those farinace ous grains, or seeds, of which bread is made, and over which the goddess Ceres was supposed, by the ancients, to preside.
Cernuous. Nodding; the apex or summit drooping, or turned downwards.
Cespitose; having many stems growing from the same root, forming a tuft or tussock: Chaff. A dry membrane, usually the small husks, or seed-covers of the grasses ; also the bracts on the recep tacle of many compound, and other aggregate flowers. Chgry. Bearing chaff; also resembling chaff.
Channels. Longitudinal grooves; the interstices between the ribs on the fruit of umbelliferous plants.
Cl/fine/Jed; grooved or furrowed.
Character. In natural history, the features of objdcts, or classes of objects, by which they are known, and dis tinguished from each other.
Chartaceous; a texture resembling that of paper. Cicatrice. A scar, such as that left at the place of artic ulation, after the fall of a leaf, etc.
Cilia. Hairs arranged like eye-lashes along the margin of the surtace.
Ciliate; fringed, or edged with parallel hairs, like eye lashes.
Ciliate-serrate; having serratures resembling cilia, or short eye-lashes.
Cilifolce. Diminutive of cilia; hairs like miniature eye lashes.
Cinereous; of the color of wood ashes.
Circinate; with the apex rolled back on itself, like the young fronds of a fern.
Circuniscissed; cut round transversely, or opening hori zontally, like a snuff box.
Cirahose; hearing tendrils, or terminating in a tendril. Cirrhus. A tendril : which see.
Class. One of the higher or primary divisinns of plants, or other natural objects; in a systematic arrangement. Ctavate. Club-shaped; thicker towards the summit, or outer end.
Clavellate. In the form of a little club ; i. e. larger at the summit.
Claw of a petal. The slender tapering portion at the base or below the middle.
Cleft ; split or divided, less than half way to the base; sometimes the division itself is called a cleft.
Ctypeate; in the form of an ancient shield or buckler. Cortaneous flowers; appearing at the same time with the leaves.