GLOSSARIAL INDEX. 



487 



Extine (exter, on the outside), 428. 

 Exudation of water from uninjured parts 



of plants, 267. 

 Eye-pieces, 2. 



FALL of the leaf, 162, 217. 



Fascicles of mosses (fasciculus, a small 

 bundle), 155. 



Fascicular system, 102. 



Fats, occurrence of, in plants, 360; sol- 

 vents for, 10, 11, 12. 



Fermentation, 333, n., 369, n., 372. 



Ferments, 326, 365, 467. 



Ferns, epidermis of, 154; reproduction in, 

 442, 446 ; stems of, 154. 



Ferric acetate (Fe[C 2 H 3 2 ]6) used as a 

 test for tannin, 12. 



Ferric chloride (Fe 2 Cl 6 ) used as a test 

 for tannin, 12. 



Ferric sulphate (Fe 2 [S0 4 ] 3 ) used as a 

 test for tannin, 12. 



Fertilization, close, 447; cross, 447; 

 grades of partial, 456; in angiosperms, 

 435; in different degrees of consan- 

 guinity, 446; in gymnosperms, 437; 

 in hybrids, 456; results of different 

 methods of, contrasted, 448. 



Fibres (Jibra, a ribre), 57, 79; bast, 87 ; 

 cambium, 81; liber, 87; libriform, 30; 

 septate, 80; substitute, 80; woody, 

 80. 



Fibro-vascular bundles (fibra, a fibre; 

 vasculum, a small vessel), 103; bicol- 

 lateral, 104; closed, 104, 128; col- 

 lateral, 104, 121; concentric, 104; 

 parts of, 104, 111 ; course of, 105, 125; 

 distribution of, in dicotyledons, 130; 

 distribution of, in palms, 127, 130, 

 131, n.-, formation of, 136, 137; in the 

 flower, 170; in the leaf, 156; in the 

 ovary, 172; in the stem, 120; number 

 of, in the central cylinder, 111 ; open, 

 104; radial, 104; relation of the num- 

 ber of, in the leaves to the number of, 

 in the stem, 125. 



Fibro-vascular system, 57, 103. 



Filtering-paper, use of, 5. 



Filtration through soils, 243. 



Fire-weeds, 469. 



Fixed air, 304. 



Floral clock, 412. 



Florideae, coloring-matters of, 295. 



Flowers, colors of, 170, 453; develop- 

 ment of, 166 ; odors of, 454 ; regarded 

 as modified branches, 166 ; times of 

 opening and closing of, 412. 



Fluorescence of the chlorophyll pigment, 

 294. 



Fluorine, occurrence of, in plants, 256. 



Foliar trace (folium, a leaf), 125. 



Food, effects of improper, upon plants, 

 473; materials for, in seeds, 182, 437, 

 467; methods of utilization of, 354. 



Foramen of the ovule, 175. 



Force exerted during growth, 395. 



Forcing, 444. 



Forests, effect of, upon the amount of 

 water in the soil, 283 ; effect of, upon 

 rain-fall, 282 ; humidity of, 281. 



Formic aldehyde (CH 2 O) hypothesis in 

 assimilation, 322. 



Forms of life of the plant, 470. 



Fovilla (foveo, I cherish), 429. 



Franchimont's test for resins, 12. 



Frauuhofer's lines, 293. 



Free nitrogen not available to plants, 

 327. 



Free veins in leaves, 157. 



Fremy's process for extraction of the 

 chlorophyll pigment, 290. 



Frey's glycerin-carmin, 17. 



Fronds of the palm-stem (frons, a leafy 

 branch), 131. 



Frost, effect of, upon plants, 471; not 

 necessary to the production of the au- 

 tumnal changes of color in leaves, 

 298. 



Fruits, changes in the ripening of, 460 ; 

 classification of explosive, 400 ; color- 

 ing-matters of, 177 ; fastening of, in 

 the soil by hygroscopic movements, 

 399; hard parts of, 176; movements 

 due to changes in ripening of, 400 ; 

 nature of, 176. 



Fruit-sugar, 359. 



Fundamental cells, 56, 60. 



Fundamental system. See Cellular Sys- 

 tem. 



Fungi, injuries to plants by, 474, 476; 

 solutions for cultivation of, 251, n. 



Funiculus (funiculus, a slender cord), 

 175. 



GALLIC ACID (C 7 H 6 5 ), 361. 



Gamogenesis (ya^os, marriage; YVe<ris, 

 formation), 426. 



Gases, absorption of, by water, 300, n. ; 

 condensation of, by soils, 244; diffu- 

 sion of, 301 ; effect of noxious, upon 

 plants, 473; effect of various, upon 

 growth, 384: in rain-water, 300, n.; 

 passage of, through epidermis free 



