INDEX 



3 2 3 



Hippon, rhizotomus of note, 58, 114, 



!7S 

 Historia Naturalis of Pliny, 157 



Historia Plantarum, of Theophrastus, 



58, 228 



of Valerius Cordus, 274, 275 

 Historia Stirpium of Fuchs, 195 

 Historian of botany, duty of, 14 

 Historians of botany, methods of, 



1416 



History antedated by science, 21 

 History of botany in general, 9 

 Hollyhock, Tragus on, 230 

 Holly-leaved oak, ecology of, 126 

 Holly tree, ancient habitat of, 130 

 Homer and Hesiod, 20, 51 

 Homo, genus characterized by Lin- 



naeus, 73 



Hordeum, genus, 1 1 1 . 

 Hornbach, residence of Tragus, 171, 



222 



Hortus Sanitatis, 167, 173, 195 

 Hotbeds in ancient gardens, 151 

 Hugo Bretzl on Theophrastus, 101 

 Humboldt, Theophrastus compared 



to, 132 



Humulus, genus, 253 

 Hydrophilous plants of Theophras- 



tus, 126 



Hyoscyamus, genus, 185, 284 

 Hypericum, description of, 245 



olympicum, 145 

 Hyphene coriacea, 131 

 Hypogynous insertion first noted, 



91, 141 



Icones, Herbarum Vivae, of Brunfels, 

 165, 169, 192 



artist of, 171 

 Iconography, in use anciently, 167 



German fathers of, 167, 168 

 Ilex, Greek name of an oak, 41 

 Impatiens, genus, 304 

 Indusium of ferns seen first by 



Cordus, 294 

 Industrial botany, 60 

 Industrialist and systematist, 29, 59 

 Industrialists' use of word fruit, 93 

 Inflorescence, Cordus on, 282, 283 



Fuchs on, 201, 202 



Meyer on history of, 282 



Theophrastus on, 92, 93, 141 

 Initial book of botany, 189 

 Insertion of flower, Theophrastus on, 



90, 141 



Intybaceae, family, 303 

 Intybus sativus, 303 



silvestris, 302, 303 

 Inula Helenium, 224 

 Involucrum, term used first by Cor- 



dus, 279 



Iris, aestivation of, first noted, 288 

 Isatis, affinities of, 250 



Isophyllon, prior name of Bupleu- 



rum, 304 



Italian efforts to restore botany, 196 

 Ivy, noted plant anciently, 103 

 leaf of, a descriptive type, 103 

 Ixos, Greek for mistletoe, 74 



Januensis, Simon, author, i 73 

 Jecoraria, genus, 176 

 Jerome, Saint, on Theophrastus, 56 

 Juglans, genus, 29, 40 



alba, 29 



nigra, 29 



regia, 29 

 Juli of hazel, Theophrastus on, 87 



Pliny on, 87 



Julus, Latin for ament, 87 

 Juncaceous plants, Theophrastus on, 



112 



Jung, J., student of leaves, 80, 81 

 Juniper, ecology of, 88, 126 

 flowering of, 89, 90 



Kalamos, same as Calamus, 77 



Kalmia, genus, 33 



King's Torch, popular plant name, 



225 

 Kuntze, Otto, and Gansblum, 187 



Labiatae, 179, 181, 201, 242, 288 

 Lactuca, genus, 302 

 Laertius, Diogenes, biographer, 57 

 Lamarck dedicates Virgilia, 150 

 Lamium, genus, 215 



maculatum, 179 

 Lappa, genus, 254 

 Lappae, family, 254 

 Latinity, as to nomenclature, 29 



not necessary to system, 29 

 Laurus nobilis, 33 



Theophrastan leaf- type, 102 

 Layandula, genus, 202 

 Leaf, anatomy of, 101, in 



criterion of affinity, 31-33 



faces of, 82 



physiology of, 81 



transient organ, 64 

 Leaves, classifications of, 104, 128 



descriptive types of, 102-104, 22 4 



margins of, 105 



outlines of, 102, 105 

 Lepidium, genus, 247, 250 



ruderale, 247 



Lesbos, ancient name of Mitylene, 54 

 Leucippus, tutor of Theophrastus, 55 

 Leucoion, Greek for Matthiola, 184, 



231 

 Life, seat of, in plants, 131 



of plants, how shortened, 92 

 Lily of the valley first described, 225, 



226 



Limnesion, genus, 304 

 Linnaeanism of Sprengel, 20 



