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A white, fatty, crystalline substance, tasteless and odorless, found in animal and plant products and tissue, and especially in nerve tissue, in the bile, and in gallstones.

The outer membrane of seeds of plants.

oration in winter. -- Christmas flower, Christmas rose, the black hellebore, a poisonous plant of the buttercup family, which in Southern Europe often produces beautiful roselike flowers midwinter. -- Christmas tree, a small evergreen tree, set up indoors, to be decorated with bonbons, presents, etc., and illuminated…

An abnormal coloring of plants.

One of the granules of protoplasm, which in mass give color to the part of the plant containing them.

A general name for coloring matter of plants other than chlorophyll, especially that of petals.

A genus of composite plants, mostly perennial, and of many species including the many varieties of garden chrysanthemums (annual and perennial), and also the feverfew and the oxeye daisy.

A sedgelike plant (Cyperus esculentus) producing edible tubers, native about the Mediterranean, now cultivated in many regions; the earth almond.

A perennial alliaceous plant (Allium fistulosum), sometimes called Welsh onion. Its fistular leaves areused in cookery.

Any one of several umbelliferous plants, of the genera Myrrhis, Osmorrhiza, etc.

Belonging to, or resembling, a suborder of composite plants of which the chicory (Cichorium) is the type.

a genus of poisonous umbelliferous plants, of which the water hemlock or cowbane is best known.

Allied or pertaining to cinchona, or to the plants that produce it.

A Linnæan genus of free-flowering composite plants, mostly from South Africa. Several species are cultivated for ornament.

cups, used in windows, panels, etc. Gwilt. Marsh cinquefoil, the Potentilla palustris, a plant with purple flowers which grows in fresh-water marshes.

iving elementary constituent. Also, the movement of the sap in the vessels and tissues of plants.

cessive bowing or bending in different directions of the growing tip of the stems of many plants, especially seen in climbing plants.

Bearing cirri, as many plants and animals.

Formed like a cirrus or tendril; -- said of appendages of both animals and plants.

A plant (Salvia sclarea) of the Sage family, used in flavoring soups. Clary water, a composition of clary flowers with brandy, etc., formerly used as a cardiac.