GLOSSARIAL INDEX. 



483 



Bark. 147, 149. 



Basifugal growth (basis, base; fugo, I 

 flee), 156. 



Basipetal growth (basis, base; peto, I 

 move toward), 156. 



Bassorin (C 6 H 10 S ), 358. 



Bast-fibres, 87 ; clinging together of, in 

 inner bark, 147; in cribose portions of 

 fibre-vascular bundles, 104; forming 

 sheaths of collateral bundles, 123; re- 

 actions of, 90 ; separation of, from the 

 stem, 147; size of, 90; solubility of, 

 33, n. ; strength of, 189. 



Beale's carmin, 17. 



Benzol (C 6 H 6 ), a solvent for fats, 10; 

 use of, in preparation of specimens 

 for mounting, 23 ; use of, in section- 

 cutting, 3 ; use of, in treatment of the 

 chlorophyll pigment, 291. 



Benzol-balsam, 23. 



Bibulous paper, use of, 5. 



Bicollateral bundles, 104 ; in stems, 

 123. 



Bifacial arrangement of leaf-parenchy- 

 ma, 158. 



Biforines (biforis, having two doors), 

 53, n. 



Blanching of leaves, 254, 297, 477. 



Blastocolla (0*"i shoot; " AAa > glue), 

 the balsam produced on buds by glan- 

 dular hairs. 



Bleaching processes, 11. 



Bleeding of plants, 264. 



Bloom, 67, 294. 



Bordered pits, 30, 82. 



Boron, occurrence of, in plants, 256. 



Branches, rudimentary and transformed, 

 153. 



Branching of roots, 115, 232. 



Bristles, 69. 



Bromine, occurrence of, in plants, 256. 



Brownian movement, 429. 



Budding, 152, 444. 



Buds on leaves, 162. 



Bud-variations, 444. 



Bundle-sheath, 104. 



Burnettizing, 142. 



Byblis, 345. 



CAESIUM, occurrence of, in plants, 256. 



Caffeine (C 8 H 10 N 4 2 ), 327. 



Calcareous soils, 239. 



Calcic chloride (CaCl 2 ), use of, as a 

 clearing agent, 10 ; use of, as a mount- 

 ing medium, 21 ; use of, in the meas- 

 urement of transpiration, 274. 



Calcic hypochlorite (CaCl 2 2 ), use of, as 

 a bleaching agent, 11. 



Calcium, occurrence of compounds of, in 

 plants, 39, 54, 247, 337 ; office of, and 

 its compounds in the plant, 253. 



Callus, as a means of healing plant 

 wounds, 150 ; in sieve-cells. 93. 



Calyptrogen (<a\vmpa, a cover; yewdu, 

 I produce), 107, n. 



Cambiform cells, 122. 



Cambium, 104, 123, 135, 136; cell- 

 division in, 377. 



Cambium-ring, 137. 



Cambium fibres, 81, n. 



Camera lucida, 4. 



Camphors, 363. 



Canada balsam, 22. 



Cane-sugar (C 12 H 22 O n ), amount of, in 

 plants, 359 ; diffusion of, 223 ; test 

 for, 52. 



Capillary water, 242. 



Caramel, diffusion of, 222, 223. 



Carbohydrates, 51, 357; transfer of, 356. 



Carbolic acid (C H 5 . OH), use of, as a 

 clearing agent, 167; use of, as a test 

 for lignin, 11, 37. 



Carbon, appropriation of, by plants, 

 285 



Carbon disulphide (CS 2 ), 11. 



Carbonates, test for, 9, 54. 



Carbonic acid (used in this work as a 

 term for carbon dioxide, C0 2 ), absorp- 

 tion of, by plants, 299, 305; amount 

 of, decomposed in assimilation, 319; 

 amount of, decomposed by plants pro- 

 portional to the distribution of effective 

 caloric energy in light, 314; amount 

 of, in natural waters, 300; amount of, 

 in rain-water, 299, 300, n.; amount of, 

 most favorable to assimilation, 319; 

 effect of a large supply of, upon vege- 

 tation, 304, 318; roots do not take up, 

 300. 



Carmin, 16; with picric acid, 17. 



Carnivorous plants, 338. 



Carpogonium, 440, n. 



Carpophytes, reproduction in, 440, n. 



Casein of plants, 363. 



Castor-oil, use of, as a medium, 5. 



Caulicle (crtuliculus, a small stem), 403; 

 movements of the, 403; sensitiveness 

 of the, 415; structure of the, 106, 118. 



Caustic soda. See Sodic Hydrate. 



Cell, 25; an osmotic apparatus, 229; 

 origin of name, 25. 



Cell-division, 374; directions of, 380; 

 in plant-hairs, 380; in the cambium 



