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INDEX AND GLOSSARY. 



Blanched (plants), whitened for the want 



of light, 486 (See Etiolated.) 

 Bloom, a fine white powder on some plants 

 Border, 91, 92. 

 Botany defined, 18. 

 Botany, Elementary, 20. 368, etc. 

 Botany, Physiological, 21, 436. 

 Botany, Systematic, 22, 153. 

 Brdchiate, with opposite, spreading branch- 



es (arms). (Fig. 275.) 

 Bract, 3-29, a 15. 

 Bracteate. having bracts. 

 Bracteoles or bractlets, 345. 

 Branches. 34, 214. 

 Bristles, stiff, sharp hairs. 

 Bryology, the science of Mosses. 

 Bud, 33. Budding, 259. 

 Buds, axillary. 247 ; accessory, 250. 

 Buds, adventitious, 251. 

 Buds, suppression of, 248. 

 Bud-scales, 246, 319. 

 Bulb. 240: tunicated, 242; scaly, 212. 

 Bulblets, 260. 



Caducous, dropping off early, 109. 



Cces])itous, forming tufts or turf. 



Calceolate, slipper-shaped. 



Cdlycine, calyx-like. 



Calyculate. having an outer calyx or calyx- 



like involucre. 

 Calyptra. the hood of the sporange (spore- 



case) of a Moss. 



Calyx, the outer floral envelope, 51 

 Cambium, 418. , 



Uarnpanylate, bell-shaped, 102. 

 Campylotropous, 141. 

 Canaliculate, channelled. 

 Ca/iescent, grayish white. 

 Capillary, capillaceous, hair-shaped. 

 Capitate, head-shaped, growing in close 



clusters or heads. 

 Cqpitulum, a little head, 3fil. 

 Cdpreolate, bearing tendrils. 

 Capsule, 1R7. 



Carbon, 443. Carbonic Acid, 490. 

 C'arina, 101. Carinate, boat-shaped, having 



a sharp ridge beneath. 

 Carpel, Carpellary, 126. 

 Carpophore, 149, 151. (Fig. 177.) 

 Cartilaginous, firm and tough in texture, 



like cartilage. 

 Caruncle, 175. 

 Caryopliyllaceous, 100. 

 Caryopsift, 153. 

 Catkin. 357. (See Ament.) 

 Caudex, 227. 



Caulescent, 223. Caulis, 223. 

 Caiilinc, relating to the stem, 2C2. 

 Cellular tissue, 886. Cell. 369. 

 Cell-growth, 448 ; life, 439. 



Cellulose, 379. 



Centrifugal inflorescence, 35 



Centripetal inflorescence, 352. 



Cephalous. same as Capitate. 



Cereal, relating to grains, corn, etc. 



Cernuous, nodding (less inclined than pen- 



dulous). 



Chaff, chaffy, 349. (See Paleaceous.) 

 Chalaza, 140. 



Channelled, hollowed out like a gutter, 

 Chartaceous, with the texture of paper. 

 Chlorophyll 381, 435. 



Chorisis, 76. 



Ciliate, fringed with marginal hairs. 



Cienchyma. 393. 



Cion or Scion, 218. 



Cinereous, ash-gray, ash-color. 



Circinate, rolled inward from the top, 255 



Circulation of the sap, 468. 



Circumscissi'le, 149. 



Cirrhous, furnished with a tendril. 



Cirrhous roots. 206. 



Classes, natural, 501. 



Classification, artificial, 503. 



Clarate, club-shaped. 



Codrctate. contracted, drawn together. 



Coccus, a berry ; Cocci (plural), the 1-seeded 



carpels of separable fruits. 

 Cochleate, spiral, like the snail-shell. 

 Cohesion. 82. 

 Cohorts, 512. 



Collateral, placed side by side. 

 Collum, 199. 

 Colored, of any color except green, which 



in botany is not a color, while white is. 

 Column, the combined stamens and styles. 

 Coma, 173. 

 Commissure, the jofried faces of the carpcla 



of the cremocarp (151). 

 Common, belonging alike to several. 

 Complete flower, 60. 

 Complicate, folded up upon itself. 

 Compound leaf. 300. 

 Compound flower, 348. 

 Comf.reseed. flattened on the sides. 274. 

 Conduplicate, folded on itself lengthwise. 

 Cone, Kii). 



Confluent, uniting; same as Coherent. 

 Conglomerate, clustered or crowded. 

 Conjugate, coupled, joined by pairs. 

 Connate. 311. 



Connectile, connective, 113, 114. 

 Conidieiit, converging, coining together. 

 Continuous, the reverse of Jointed. 

 Contorted, twisted, 338. 

 Convolute, 256, 339. 

 Cordate, heart-shaped. 291. 

 Coriaceous, leather-like, 315. 

 Conn, 239. 



Corneous, horn-like in texture. 

 Corniculate, with a small horn or spur. 

 Corolla, 52, etc. 



Corolline, pertaining to the corolla. 

 Corona, crown, 435, 407. 

 Cortical bark, 414. 

 Corymb, corym'bous, .358. 

 Cost ate. ribbed, with nb-like ridges. 

 Cotyledons, ISO, 320. 

 Crassula, (a genus of plants), 63. 

 Crateriform, of the form of a goblet. 

 Creeper, Creeping stems, 231. 

 Cremocarp, 151. 



Crenate, bordered with rounded teeth. 

 Crenulate, 309. 



Crested or Cristate, with an elevated ridge 

 Crispate or Crisped, 310. 

 Crown of the root, 236. 

 Cruciform (corolla), 100. 

 Crude sap, 472. 



Crustaceous, hard, thin, and brittle. 

 Cryptogamia, Cryptogams, 507. 

 Cucullate, rolled up into a hood-shape. 

 Culm, the straw of Grasses, 224. 

 Cuneate. Cuneiform, wedge-shaped, 290. 

 Cup-shaped, 102. 



