The treasury of botany: a popular dictionary of the vegetable kingdom; with which is incorporated a glossary of botanical terms . hreeinches long, and covered, like all parts ofthe plant, with white appressed flower-heads are in dense round clus-ters, at the ends of the branches, eachhead containing three florets. In C. lacteusthe flower-heads are white, and in they are lemon-coloured. [A. A. B.] CALOCHILUS campestris is a slenderleafy-stemmed Australian orchid with tes-ticulate roots and nearly closed greenishflowers, the tip of which is deeply clothedwith long delicate hai
The treasury of botany: a popular dictionary of the vegetable kingdom; with which is incorporated a glossary of botanical terms . hreeinches long, and covered, like all parts ofthe plant, with white appressed flower-heads are in dense round clus-ters, at the ends of the branches, eachhead containing three florets. In C. lacteusthe flower-heads are white, and in they are lemon-coloured. [A. A. B.] CALOCHILUS campestris is a slenderleafy-stemmed Australian orchid with tes-ticulate roots and nearly closed greenishflowers, the tip of which is deeply clothedwith long delicate hairs. C. herbaceus,supposed to be a second species, is regardedby Hooker as a mere form of the other. CALOCHORTUS. A genus of beautifulbulbous plants belonging to the Liliacece,and closely allied to Cyclobothra, fromwhich it differs in being destitute of ahoney-pit on the segments of the perianth,and in having flat smooth instead ofroundish angular seeds. They have tuni-cated bulbs, and produce rigid ensiformleaves, and an erect scape supporting a fewlarge showy flowers which are racemoselyarranged and remain open for several. Calochortus venustus. days. The perianth is deciduous, six-leaved, the three outer or calycine divi-sions linear and beardless, the three innerpetaloid, very much larger and broader CALC-] QLf)C Ersatfurg al ^Sotang. 200 than the outer, and bearded on the inside;the flowers, therefore, appear to consist ofthree large spreading petals, and threenarrow sepals. There are six stamensadherent to the base of the perianth, anda three-celled ovary crowned by threesubsessile stigmas. The few known spe-cies, which are found in Mexico, California,and XW. America, are all plants of gorgeousbeauty, but found to be exceedingly diffi-cult of cultivation. C. venustus is oneof the handsomest; it grows about twofeet high, and produces large flowers,upwards of three inches across, withnarrow green sepals, and broad roundishwedge-shaped petals which form a cup, andare white ab
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