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122 INDEX AND GLOSSARY. 
Baccate; berry-like, covered with pulp. 
Banner, 105, 5. 
Bark, 205. 
Beak; a hard, short point, like the beak 
of a bird. 
Bearded; with long awns or hairs. 
Berry, 116, 14. 
Bicuspidate; with two points. 
Bidentate ; with two teeth. 
Biennial; of two years’ duration. 
Bifid; two-cleft. 
Bifoliate ; with two leaves. 
Bilabiate ; two-lipped. 
Bifurcate ; two-forked. 
Binate ; growing two together. 
Bipinnate, 240, 5. 
Bipinnatifid; twice pinnatifid. 
Bisaccate ; with two tumors or sacks. 
Biternate, 240, 7. 
Bivalved; two-valved. 
Botany defined, 1. 
Brachiate; with 
branches (arms), 
Bracteate ; having bracts. 
Bracteole ; little bracts. 
Bracts, 252. ; 
Branchlets ; small branches. 
Branch, 170. 
Bristles ; rigid hairs. 
Bud, 20, 22. 165—169, 
Bulb, 178. 
Bulbiferous, 178, c. 
Bulblets, 178, c. 
Bulbous ; having bulbs. 
Caducous, 98. 
Cespitose; turfy, growing in tufts. 
Calycine; of a calyx. 
Calyculated; having bracteoles resem- 
bling an external or additional calyx. 
Calyptra; (an extinguisher) applied to 
the cover of the theca of some mosses. 
Calyx, 55, 95. 
Cambium, 207. 
Campanulate, 104, 1. 
Campylotropous; denotes that the ovule 
is curved upon itself. 
Canaliculate; channelled, or furrowed. 
Canescent; hoary, approaching to white. 
Capillary ; very slender, hair-like. 
Capitate; growing in a head. 
Capsule, 116, 1. 
Carina, 105, 5. Carinate, keel-shaped. 
Caryopsis; a small, 1-celled, indehiscent 
pericarp, adhering to the seed which it 
encloses, as in the grasses. 116, 8. 
Carpels, 77. 
Carpophore; the axis of the fruit in the 
mbelliferz. 
Cartilaginous ; gristly. 
Caryophyllaceous, 105, 4. 
Cathartic ; purgative. 
Catkin, 299. 
Catidate; with a tail-like appendage. 
Caudex, 142, a. 
opposite spreading 
Caulescent, 184. 
Cauline, 220. 
Caulis, 184. 
Cellular; composed of cells. 
Cellular tissue, 29. 
Cellulares, 47. 
Cernuous; nodding. 
Chaffy ; with chaff like processes. 
Chalaza, 91. 
Chemical basis of vegetable tissue, 28. 
Chlorophyll, 215, a. 
hrenules green coloring-matter or par 
ticles. 
Ciliz ; hairs like those of the eyelash. 
Ciliate, 41, a. 
Circinate, 217, 7. 
Circumscissile, 115, 5. 
Cirrhose, 240, 2. 
Clavate ; club-shaped. 
Claw, 102. 
Climbers, 187. 
Cochleate; resembling the shell of a 
snail. 
Cohering ; connected. 
Collum, 141. 
Columella, 116, a. 
Colored ; not green. 
Columnar; formed like columns. 
Column; the consolidated stamens and 
pistils of Orchidacesze. 
Coma, 118, a. 
Commissure; the inner face of the car 
pels of Umbellifere. ‘ 
Compound leaves, 238. 
Comose ; a kind of inflorescence, having 
a tuft of sessile bracts on the top of it. 
Compound leaves; consisting of several 
leaflets. 
Compressed, 222, 1. 
Concave; hollow. 
Concentric; points or lines at equal dis- 
tance from a common centre. 
Concrete; hardened, or formed into one 
mass. 
Confluent ; running into one another. 
Conjugate; joined in pairs. — . 
panne joined together at the base, 
» 4. 
Connectile, 68, 4. 
Connivent; converging. 
Conoid; like a cone. 
Contorted ; 108, 4, twisted. 
Convolute, 108, 2. 
Convex ; rising spherically. 
Coral Islands, 12, c. 
Cordate, 234, 25. 
Coriaceous ; leathery, thick, and tough. 
Corm, 179 
Cornute; horned. 
Corolla, 56, 100. 
Corona (a crown); the expanded cup- 
like disk of the Narcissus, &c. 
Corymb, 301. A 
Corymbose; arranged like a corymb 
Costate; ribbed. pr 
