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INTRODUCTION. 
Areolae ; little spaces, circumscribed 
by meshes. 
Aril, or Arillus, 211. 
Aristate ; awned. 
Arrow-shaped, 67. 
Articulated; jointed, 92. 
Artificial arrangement, 240, 251. 
Ascending; rising upwards with a 
curve or obliquely. 
Assurgent; same as ascending. 
Auriculate, or Auricled, 67. 
Awn; a slender prolonged tip, or 
beard. 
Awned ; furnished with an awn. 
Axil, 27. 
Axile ; belonging to the axis. 
Axillary, 103. 
Axis; the stem, or any centre round 
which parts are arranged. 
Baccate ; berry-like. 
Barbs ; stiff hooked hairs. 
Bark, 47, 49. 
Beaked; tipped with a conspicuous 
point. 
Bearded; beset with bristly hairs. 
Bell-shaped, 182, 199. 
Berry, 182, 199. 
Bi, in composition, twice, as 
Bicarinate ; 2-keeled. 
Biennials, 21. 
Bifid ; 2-cleft. 
Bifarious; 2-ranked. 
Bifurcate; 2 -forked. 
BiUbiate ; 2-lipped, 139. 
Binate ; in twos, twin. 
Bipinnate, &c., 76. 
Biplicate ; in 2 folds. 
Biserial; in 2 sets or rows. 
Biserrate; twice serrate. 
Bit^rnate, 79. 
Bladdery ; thin and inflated. 
Blade, 59. 
Brachiate; pairs of branches spread¬ 
ing nearly at right angles. 
Bracted, or Bracteate; furnished with 
bracts. 
Bracrteolate, 115. 
Bracteoles, or Bractlets, 115. 
Bracts, 84, 103. 
Branches, 27. 
Branchlets, 27. 
Breathing-pores, 57. 
Bristles, 58. 
Bristle-pointed; tipped with a bristle. 
Bud, 14. 
Bulb, 42, 44. 
Bulblets, 43. 
Bulbous; bulb-like, or bulb-bearing. 
Bullate ; as if blistered. 
Caducous; dropping off very early, 
91. 
Cse'spitose ; growing in turf or tuft. 
Calcarate; bearing a spur. 
Calicine; belong to a calyx. 
Callus, p. 568. 
Calyculate; with an accessory outer 
calyx. 
Calyptra; the hood of Mosses, p. 642. 
Calyx, 129. 
Cambium, 49. n 
Camp&nulate ; bell-shaped, 13y. 
Campylbtropous, 176, 212. 
Canaliculate; channelled, grooved 
down one side. . , , . 
Canescent; grayish-white with short 
Capillaceous ) shaped like a slender 
Capillary $ thread or strong hair. 
Capitate; shaped like a head, gloh- 
ular. . . 
Capitellate; a diminutive of the last- 
Capitulum, 110. 
Carina; a keel. 
Carinate ; keeled. 
Carpel, 164. 
Carpellary, 164, 172. 
Carpophore ; fruit-stalk ; p. 133. 
Caruncle ; a protuberance or appen¬ 
dage at the hilum of a seed. 
Caryophyllaceous; a flower like a 
Pink. 
Caryopsis ; a grain, 203. 
Catkin, 113. 
Caudate ; with a tail. 
Caudex ; the axis of a plant, espe¬ 
cially when root-like, or scaly, a n 
erect. 
Caudicle ; the little stalk which at¬ 
taches the pollen of Orchis, 
to the stigma, p. 464. 
Cauline, belonging to stem, 84. 
Cells, cellules, 4. 
Cellular tissue, 4. 
Centrifugal, 119. 
Centripetal, 111. 
Cephalous; headed, or head-bearing- 
C 6 rnuous ; nodding. 
Chaff, p. 185. 
Chaffy; chaff-bearing. 
Chaliza, 174. ... _ 
Channelled; hollowed out like 
gutter. . . . 
Character; a phrase containing t 
essentia] marks of a species, g 
nus, &c., 236, 247. * 
Chartaceous; with the texture 
writing-paper. 
Chl6rophyll, 47, 54. 
i Cilia ; hair-shaped appendages. 
