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INDEX AND GLOSSARY 



tending a flower, or belonging to an in- 

 florescence. 126, 140. 



Bracteate. Having bracts. 



Bracteolate. Having bractlets. 



Bractlets. Secondary bracts, as on a pedicel 

 of a flower. 



Bread Mold, IGO, 16S. 



Brown Algae, 15S. 



Buds, accessory, 29 ; adventitious, 83 ; ax- 

 fllary, 29 ; comparative vigor, 26 ; discus- 

 sion introducing study of, 24T; dormant 

 condition, 30 ; general structure, 23 ; grow- 

 ing, 27 ; laboratory studies, 23 ; latent, 32 ; 

 mixed, 30 ; naked, 81 ; nondevelopment, 25, 

 32 ; protection, 27, 2S, 31 ; time taken to 

 unfold, 248; unfolding, 25; winter, 29. 



Bulb, 60, 



Bulbiferous. Bearing bulbs. 



Bulblets, 58. 



Bryophytes, 198. 



Cadnceous. Falling ofl" early. 



Calcarate. Produced into, or having, a spur. 



Calcium oxalate, 217. 



Callus. A bard protuberance, or callosity. 



Calyculate, Having bracts around cal3-x, imi- 

 tating an outer calj-x. 



Calyptra, 203. 



Calyx, 100, 110. 



Cambium, 222; of cork, 225. 



Campanulate. Bell-sbaped ; cup-shaped ; 

 with a broad base. 132. 



Campy lotropous (ovule or seed). So curved 

 as to bring apex and base nearlj^ together. 

 138. 



Canaliculate. Longitudinally channeled. 



Canescent. Hoary, with gray pubescence. 



Capitate. Shaped like a head ; collected into 

 a head or dense cluster. 



Capsule. A dry, dehiscent fruit composed of 

 more than one carpel. 151. 



Carbon assimilation, 234. 



Carbon dioxide, source of, 234. 



Carinate. Having a keel or a projecting longi- 

 tudinal medial line on the lower surface. 



Carpel. A simple pistil, or one luember of a 

 compound pistil. 104. 



Carpogonium, 181. 



Carpospore, 182. 



Caruncle, 152. 



Carunculate. Having a caruncle. 



Caryopsis. A grain, as of grasses ; a seed- 

 like fruit with a thiri pericarp adnate to the 

 contained seed. 150. 



Catkin. An ament. 141. 



Caudate. Having a slender taillike appendage. 



Caudex. The persistent base of an otherwise 

 annual herbaceous stem. 



Caulescent. Having a manifest stem. 



Caulicle, 17. 



Cauhne. Belonging to the stem. 



Cell, 212; changes in shape. 21S: of ovary, 

 105; of stamens, 136; typical, 173. 



OeU fusion, 220. 



Cell sap, 216. 



Cellular structure of plants, 116. 



Cellulose, 21S. 



Cefl wall, 217. 



Cespitose. Growing in tufts ; forming mats 



or turf. 

 Chaff. A small, thin scale or bract, becoming 



dry and membranous. 

 Chaff^\ Having or resembling chaff". 

 Chaloza, 137, 153. 

 Chlorophyll, 23, 72. 

 Chlorophyll granules, 215. 

 Chloroplastids, 215. 

 Chromatophore, 173. 

 Cflium, 172. 



Ciliate. Marginally fringed mth hairs. 

 Ciliolate. Minutely cUiate. 

 Cinereous. Ash color. 

 Circinate. Coiled from the top downward, as 



the young frond of a fern. 

 Circumscissile. Dehiscing by a regular trans- 

 . vei'se circular line of division. 

 Clavaria, 195. 

 Clavate. Club-shaped ; gradually thickened 



upward. 

 Claw, 132. 



Cleistogamous. FertUized in the bud, with- 

 out the opening of the flower. 119. 

 Cleft. Cut about to the middle. 95. 

 Climbers, 53. 

 Club Moss, 167. 

 Coalescence. The union of parts or organs 



of the same kind. 114. 

 Cochleate. Spu-al like a snail shell. 

 Collenchyma, 219. 

 Columella. The persistent axis of some 



capsules, spore cases, etc. 

 Coma. A tuft of hairs. 152. 

 Comose. Furnished with a coma. 

 Commissure. The surface by which one 

 carpel joins another, as in the UmbelliferEe. 

 Complete (flower), 128. 

 Components of plant bodj', 231. 

 Compound. Composed of two or more simi- 

 lar parts united into one whole. Compound 

 leaf: one divided into separate leaflets. 82, 

 96. 

 Compressed. Flattened laterally. 

 Conceptacle, 179. 

 Conduction of sap in leaf, 69. 

 Conduphcate. Folded together lengthwise. 

 Confluent. Eunning into each other; 



blended into one. 

 Coniferous. Cone bearing. 

 Coniferous flower, 102. 

 Conjugation, 172, 182. 

 Connate. United congenitally. 

 Connective. The portion of a stamen which 



connects the two cells of the anther. 108. 

 Connivent, Coming into contact ; con- 

 verging. 

 Convolute. Eolled up longitudinally. 

 Cordate. Heart-shaped, with the point up- 

 ward. 93. 

 Coriaceous. Leatherv in texture. 

 Cork, 225. 



