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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 machine, combining magic lantern and kinetoscope features, for projecting on a screen a series of pictures, moved rapidly (25 to 50 a second) and intermittently before an objective lens, and producing by persistence of vision the illusion of continuous motion; a moving-picture machine; also, any of several other mach…

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.

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

essive 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.

h as the reading of the class histories and poem, the delivery of the class oration, the planting of the class ivy, etc.

ute, closed flowers, without petals or with minute petals; -- said of certain species of plants which possess flowers of two or more kinds, the closed ones being so constituted as to insure self-fertilization. Darwin.

A genus of flowering plants, of many species, mostly climbers, having feathery styles, which greatly enlarge in the fruit; -- called also virgin's bower.

ine (Naut.), a rope by which a clew of one of the smaller square sails, as topsail, topgallant sail, or royal, is run up to its yard. -- Clew-line block (Naut.), The block through which a clew line reeves. See Illust. of Block.

The receptacle of the flowers in a composite plant; -- also called clinium.

ckwork, by means of wich the action of external agents, as light and gravity, on growing plants may be regulated or eliminated.

Adjoining; near; either in space; time, or thought; -- often followed by to. Plant the spring crocuses close to a wall. Mortimer. The thought of the Man of sorrows seemed a very close thing -- not a faint hearsay. G. Eliot.

A plant of differend species of the genus Trifolium; as the common red clover, T. pratense, the white, T. repens, and the hare's foot, T. arvense. Clover weevil (Zoöl.) a small weevil (Apion apricans), that destroys the seeds of clover. -- Clover worm (Zoöl.), the larva of a small moth (Asopia costalis), often very de…