INDEX AND GLOSSARY. 



»% The figures refer to paragrapha. 



A ; (««, privative) in composition signifies 

 without. 



Abortion; an imperfect development of 

 any organ. Abbreviations, 12S. 



Absoi-ption, 157, 158, 272, 273, 274. 



Acanlescent, 184. 



Accessory ; something added to the usual 

 parts. 



Accretion ; the growing of one thing to 

 another. 



Accumbent; lying upon. In the Cru- 

 ciferas it denotes the radicle lying upon 

 the edges of the cotyledons. 



Acerose, 234, 26. 



Achenium, 116, 9. 



Achlamydeous, 54. 



Acicnlar; needle-shaped. 



Acine ; a separate grain or carpel of a col- 

 lective fruit. 



Acotyledonous, 48. 



Acrogens, 351. 



Aculeate ; armed with prickles. 



Acuminate, 236, 3. 



Acute, 236, 1. 



Adherent, 97. 



Adnate ; growing to or upon, 69, 2. 



Estivation, 108. 



Aggregate ; assembled closely together. 



Aglumaceous, 350. 



Alas, 105, 5. 



Alburnum, 203. 



Albumen, 122. 



Alternative, 108, 5. 



Alveolate ; with partitions like a honey- 

 comb. 



Ament, 299. 



Amplexicaul, 222, 3. 



Anastomosing; tiie uniting of vessels; 

 inosculating. 



Anatropous, 121. 



Ancipital; two-edged. 



Androecitim, 57, 65. 



Androgynous; with both stamens and 



pistils. 

 Angiosperms, 349. 



Anthelmintic ; expelling or killing worms 

 Animal, definition of, 11. 

 Antiseptic; eflBcacious against putrcfac 



tion. 

 Anther, 68. 



Apetalae, 354. Apetalons, without petals. 

 Appressed; pressed closely upon some- 

 thing else. 

 Apterous ; without wings (or margins). 

 Aquatics ; growing in or belonging to the 



water. 

 Arachnoid ; 41, a. 

 Arboreous ; tree-like. 

 Arborescent ; belonging to a tree. 

 Areolae ; having the surface divided into 



little spaces, or areas. 

 Aridity; dryness. 

 Aril, 119. 

 Aristate; bearded, as in the glumes of 



barley. 

 Armed, 235, 7. 



Aroma ; the spicy quality of a thing. 

 Articulation; a jomt; tiie place whex» 



one thing is joined to another. 

 Artificial Classes, 73. 

 Artificial Orders, 80. 

 Ascidiaj 245. 



Ascendmg; arising obliquely, assurgent 

 Assurgent; arising in an obuque direo- 



tion. 

 Attenuate ; rendered slender or thin. 

 Auriculate, 232, 9. 

 Awn, 256. 

 Axil (arm-pit); the angle between the 



pStiole and branch, on the upper side 

 Axillary ; growing out of the axils. 

 Axis, ascending, 19. 

 Axis, despending, 19. 



