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CLAYTONIA

Volume 2 · 58 words · 1771 Edition

in botany, a genus of the pentandra monogynia clas. The calyx consists of two valves; the corolla has five petals; the stigma is trifid; and the capsule has three valves, and contains three seeds. The species are two, none of them natives of Britain.

Cape CLEAR, a promontory in a little island on the south-west coast of Ireland.