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CHRYSOSPLENIUM

Volume 2 · 61 words · 1771 Edition

in botany, a genus of the dicandra digymia clas. The calyx is divided into four or five coloured segments; it has no corolla; and the capsule has two beaks, and one cell containing many seeds. The species are two, viz. the alternifoliun, or alternate-leaved golden saxifrage; and the oppositifolium, or common golden-saxifrage; both natives of Britain.

CRYSTAL, or Crystal. See Crystal.