CENTRANTHIFOLIUS, Centranthus-leaved.
Crrasirormis, cherry-like.
Cerastium, from Greek for a horn (refer-
ring to the horn-shaped pods).
Crrcocarpvs, tailed-fruit.
Cuammissonis, A. von Chamisso, a poet
and botanist who visited this coast
with Eschscholtz early in this century.
CHEIRANTHIFOLIA, wallflower-leaved.
Cuerrantuvs, Arabic name.
CHILENSIS, Chili.
CHIMAPHILA, winter-lover.
CHLonoGaLuM, greenish milk.
CURYSANTHEMIFOLIA, Crysanthemum-
leaved.
CurysantHa, golden-flowered.
Crit, hair-fringed.
Circa, Circe, the enchantress.
CrrornaTa, coiled; crosier-like.
CuargKra, General Wm. Clarke, who
crossed the continent in 1803-1806.
Cuaytoni4, Dr. John Clayton, an early
botanist of Virginia.
CLEMATIS, ancient name of a climbing
plant.
Curyton1a, Governor De Witt Clinton, of
New York.
Cotiinsta, Zaccheus Collins, of Philadel-
phia. :

CoLLinstorpEs, Collinsia-like.
Co.tomia, from Greek for glue, on account
of the mucilaginous seeds.
Comosum, hair-tufted.
Concrnnum, beautiful.
Congesta, bunched.
CorDIFOLIUs, heart-leaved.
CorpyLantTuus, club-flower.
CorymBosus, corymbose (flowers in a cor-
ymb).
CoTuL&Fo.ia, Cotula-leaved.
CRASSIFOLIA, thick-leaved.
CRENATUS, crenate.
Cressa, Cretan woman.
Cretica, Cretan.
Crocea, yellow; saffron-colored.
CROTELLARLA, rattle-pod.
CuNEATUS, wedge-shaped.
Curvirzs, curved-pedicel.
CynocLossum, hound’s-tongue.
CyprirEepium, Venus’s slipper.
Cyrisorss, like snail-clover.
Datura, an altered Arabic name.
Decorum, comely; pretty.
De.puinium, dolphin.
Demissa, lowly; humble.
DENDROMECON, tree-poppy.
DensrFLorus, dense-flowering.
Dewsirout, densely-leaved.
Dentata, dentate; notched.
DenticvLata, denticulate; finely toothed,

DicENTRA, twice-spurred; two spurs.
DicHotomvs, two-forked.
Discotor, variable (as to color or form).
DrvaricaTa, spreading.
DopEcaTHEON, twelve gods,

Dovexasu, David Douglas, a Scottish ex
plorer of the Botany of this coast.
Dvumosa, bushy.
EcurnosPermum, hedgehog-seed.
Execans, elegant; beautiful.
Exuis14, John Ellis, an English botanist.
EmMaRGINATA, emarginate; notched.
GLOSSARY OF GENERIO AND SPECIFIC NAMES.
EMMENANTHE, persistent-flower.
EPILOBIUM, a violet on a pod.
Eriantuvs, woolly-flowered.
Eriopycryon, a network of wool (on the
leaves).
ERITRICHIUM, woolly-hair.
Eropium, from Greek for heron (the fruit
like the bill of a heron).
Erysimum, from a word meaning to blister.
Eryraraa, from a word meaning red.
