The treasury of botany: a popular dictionary of the vegetable kingdom; with which is incorporated a glossary of botanical terms . r with thepectinately-toothed calyx leaves of those ofthe females, serve to distinguish it fromits allies. The wiry stems are furnishedwith distant nettle-like heart-shaped leaves,and the small green flowers are disposedin racemes which arise from opposite theleaves. [A. A. BJ CTENOPTERIS. A name originally pro-posed as a sectional division of Polypodiumby Blume, a Dutch botanist, and subse-quently adopted as a genus, with variousmodifications by modern pteridologis
The treasury of botany: a popular dictionary of the vegetable kingdom; with which is incorporated a glossary of botanical terms . r with thepectinately-toothed calyx leaves of those ofthe females, serve to distinguish it fromits allies. The wiry stems are furnishedwith distant nettle-like heart-shaped leaves,and the small green flowers are disposedin racemes which arise from opposite theleaves. [A. A. BJ CTENOPTERIS. A name originally pro-posed as a sectional division of Polypodiumby Blume, a Dutch botanist, and subse-quently adopted as a genus, with variousmodifications by modern pteridologists. Itis, however, synonymous with the true ortypal species of Polypodium. [T. M.] CUBEBA. A genus of Piperacece, thedistinguishing features of which are, thedioecious flowers partially covered by ses-sile bracts and the fruits elevated on a sort of stalk, formed from the contractionof the hase of the fruit itself, so thatthey are not really hut only apparentlystalked. They are shrubs frequently ofclimbing habit, indigenous in the tropicsof Asia and Africa. C. officinalis, a nativeof Java, furnishes the cubeb fruits of com-. Cubeba canina. nierce, which are like black pepper butstalked. They have an acrid hot aromatictaste, and are specially useful in diseasesof the bladder and urinary passages. Inlarge doses they give rise to symptoms ofirritant poisoning. C. canina is also said\ to furnish some portion of the commercialcubebs. [M. T. M.] CUBEBS. The fruits of various speciesof Cubeba, as C. officinalis, C. canina, andothers. CUCHUNCHULLY or CUICHUNCHUL-LI. Ionidium TREE. Acacia comigera. CUCKOO-FLOWER. Cardamine praten-sis ; also Lychnis Flos-cuculi. CUCKOO-PINT. Arum maculatum. CUCUBALUS. A genus of Caryophyl-lacem, of the tribe Silenece, containing asingle European herb which has beenfound in the Isle of Dogs, hut doubtlessintroduced. It has trailing stems, oppositeovate leaves, and shortly stalked droopingwhitish flowers in dichotomous calyx
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