C^muous: nodding; the summit more or less inclining.
Chaff: small membranous scales or bracts on the receptacle of Ck>mposit8B ; the
glumes, &c. of Grasses.
Chc^ :■ furnished with chaff, or of the texture of chaff.
Chaldza : that part of the ovule where all the parts grow together; p. 122.
Ouumeiled: hollowed out like a gutter; same as canaliculate.
Character: a phrase expressing the essential marks of a species, genus, &c.
which distinguish it from all others ; p. 180.
Chartdceous : of the texture of paper or parchment

Chl&nphyU : the green grains in the cells of the leaf, and of other parts exposed
to the light, which give to herbage its green color; p. 155.
Ckrdmule : coloring matter in plants, especially when not green, or when liquid.
Cicatrix : the scar left by the fall of a leaf or other organ.
CUiate : beset on the margin with a fringe of d/to, i. e. of hairs or bristles, like
the eyelashes fringing the eyelids, whence the name.
Cinereous, or Cinerdceous : ash-grayish ; of the color of ashes.
Cirdnate: rolled inwards from the top, like a crosier, as the shoots of Fems;
p. 76, fig. 154; the flower-clusters of Heliotrope, &c.
CircumscissHe, or CircumcissHe : divided by a circular line round the sides, as
the pods of Purslane, Plantain, &a ; p. 133, fig. 298, 311.
Circumscriptum : the general outline of a thing.
Cirrhtfercusj or Cirrhose: furnished with a tendril (Latin, cirrhus) ; as the Grape-
vine. Cirrhose also means resembling or coiling like tendrils, as the leaf-
stalks of Viigin's-bower ; p. 37.
Class, p. 175, 177.
Cku^icadon, p. 173.
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210 GLOSSJLBT.
ddthraU : latticed ; same as canceUate,

QdvaU : club-shaped ; slender below and thickened upwards.
