The treasury of botany: a popular dictionary of the vegetable kingdom; with which is incorporated a glossary of botanical terms . the origin of all the culti-vated varieties of carnations, as picotees,bizarres, and flakes. The common duckweed(Stellaria media), and spurrey {Spergula ar-vensis) used as .fodder for sheep, are otherexamples. There are about sixty generaand 1,100 species. Illustrative genera:Dianthus, Saponaria, Silene, Lychnis, Al-sine, Armaria, Stellaria, Cerastium, Mol-lugo. [J. H. B.] CARYOPHYLLACEOUS, CARYOPHYL-LATUS. A corolla whose petals have longdistinct claws, as in the c
The treasury of botany: a popular dictionary of the vegetable kingdom; with which is incorporated a glossary of botanical terms . the origin of all the culti-vated varieties of carnations, as picotees,bizarres, and flakes. The common duckweed(Stellaria media), and spurrey {Spergula ar-vensis) used as .fodder for sheep, are otherexamples. There are about sixty generaand 1,100 species. Illustrative genera:Dianthus, Saponaria, Silene, Lychnis, Al-sine, Armaria, Stellaria, Cerastium, Mol-lugo. [J. H. B.] CARYOPHYLLACEOUS, CARYOPHYL-LATUS. A corolla whose petals have longdistinct claws, as in the clove pink. CARYOPHYLLATA. (Fr.) Gemn urba-num. CARYOPHYLLUS. One of the generaof Myrtacece, characterised by a long cylin-drical calyx, whose limb is four-cleft; fourpetals adherent at their points; stamensnumerous in four parcels; berry oblong,one or two-celled, and as many seeded. The tree producing the well-known spicecalled Cloves (C. aromaticus) is a handsomeevergreen, rising to from fifteen to thirtyfeet, with large elliptic leaves and purplishflowers arranged in corymbs on short-jointed stalks. The Cloves of commerce. Caryophyllus aromaticus. aretheunexpanded flower-buds, and derivetheir name from the French word clou, anail, in allusion to the shape of the budwith its long calyx tube, and the roundI knob or head of petals at the top. Thesebuds are collected by hand, or by heatingthe tree with sticks, when the buds, fromthe jointed character of their stalks,readily fall, and are received on sheetsspread for the purpose. The Cloves arethen dried by the sun. For many yearsthe Dutch exercised a strict monopoly inthe growth of this spice, by restricting itscultivation to the island of Amboyna, andeven there extirpating all but a limitednumber of the trees: but they are nowextensively grown in the West Indies andelsewhere. All parts of the plant are aro-matic, from the presence of a volatile oil,but especially the flower-buds, hence itsuse for culinary purposes. The oil is oc
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