CALX

A name applied by the alchemists to all products of combustion, especially those obtained from the metals, which were supposed to be converted into a species of earth. CALYBIO. {Gr. xciXvQvi, a cottage.) A name adopted by some carpologists, for such a one-celled. Inferior, one or few-seeded fruit, enclosed in a cupule, as the acorn of the oak, the mast of beech, . CALYCANTHACEiE. (Calycanthus, one of the genera.) A small natural order of plants related to RosacetE. They are all shrubs with fragrant flowers, and inhabit North America or Japan. Some of them resemble the genus Jllicium in their flowers. CALYCERACEiE. (Calycera, one of the genera.) A natural order of plants related to Compositce, from which they difier very little, excepting that their seeds are pendulous and albuminous, and their anthers half united. The species are woody herbaceous plants, inhabiting the warmer parts of South America. [s. 196]