Calyx. The flower-cup, or outer (and aometimea the only) covering of a flower, usually green.
nulate ; in the form of a bell.
Campykotropous ovule, or seed. Where the ovule curves upon itself, and thus brings the orifice, or apex, near to tile funiculus.
Ca aliculate ; channelled or furrowed.
Ca dfrant; whitish.
Caneseerd. Hoary; clothed with a whitish or grey pubes cence.
Ca illaceous, or capillary; long and fine, or slender, like a ha r.
Ca Nate. Head-form; growing in a bead, or globular mass.
Ca ; 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 Umbelliferce.
Cartilaginous • hard, yet somewhat flexible, like gristle. Canine/e. A. fleshy excrescence, sometimes found at the bllum of seeds.
Caryopais. A fruit where the pericarp is very.thin, inde hiscent, and closely adherent to the surface of the seed, as In the grasses, etc.
Catkin; (See Ament.) Gouda; a tail. Caudate; having a tail, or tail-like ap pendage.
Cautescent ; having an evident or true stem.
Co/dine; belonging to, or growing on, the main stem. Cellular; made up of little cells, or cavities, formed of membranaceous sacs.
Cellular,. made up of little oells, or cavities, formed of membranaceous 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 oyme precedes the others; i. e. the flowering commences at the center and extends successively to the oircum ' ferenee.
Centripetal inflorescence; where the outer flowers' of a eorymh, or umbel precede the inner ones; i. e. the flow era expand in succession, from the oiroumferenoo to the center.
Clephaloid; Cereal. Pertaining to Ceres ; belonging is those farinace ous grains, or seeds, of which bread s 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. Chaffy. Bearing chaff; also resembling chaff.
Channels. Longitudinal grooves; the Interstices between the ribs on the fruit of umbelliferous plants.
Chanelled; grooved or furrowed.
Character. In natural history. the features of objects, 0/ classes of objects, by which they are known, and dis tinguished from each other.
Chartaceous; a texture resew bi;,-,o that of pans*. Cieatrice. A. soar, 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 surface.
Ciliate; fringed, or edged with parallel hairs, like eye lashes.
having serratures resembling cilia, or short eye-lashes. • Cilifo/a. 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.
Cifturrascissed; cut round transversely, or opening hori zontally, like a snuff box.
Cirahose; bearing tendrils, or terminating in a tendril.. Cirrhus. A tendril ; which see.
Class. One of the higher or primary divisions of plants, or other natural objects; in a systematic arrangement. Clavate, Clnb-shaped; thicker towards the summit, or outer end.
Cava/ate. In the form of a little chin; i. s.,larger at the summit.
Claw or a petal. The slender tapering portion at the base or below the middle: Cleft; split or divided, leas than half way to the base; sometimes the division itself is called a cleft.
Clypeate; in the form of an ancient shield or buckler. Cortaneous flowers; appearing at the same time with the leaves.