INDEX AND GLOSSARY. 
Cotyledon, 125. 
Cotyledonous plants, 48. 
Creeper, 182. 
Crenate, 235, 4. 
Crenulate, 235, 4. 
Crisped, 235, 10. 
Cruciform, ae 
Cryptogamia, 345. 
Cucallate hooded, cowled. 
Culm, 156, a. 
Cultivation, effects of, 15. 
Cuneate; wedge-shaped. 
Cupule; the cup, or involucre, of the 
acorn, and of all amentaceous plants. 
Cuspidate; like the point of aspear. A 
leaf is cuspidate when suddenly con- 
tracted to a point. 
Cuticle; the epidermis; scarf-skin. 
Cyathiform ; cup-shaped; concave. 
Cylindraceous ; like a cylinder in form. 
Cyme, 307. Cymose, like a cyme. 
Cyanic, of the blue series ; i. e. white, red, 
blue,any color save yellow or ochroleuc. 
Decandrous; with 10 stamens. 
Deciduous, 98. 
Declinate ; turned towards one side. 
Decompound; more than once compoun- 
ded, as bipinnate, &c. 
Decumbent; lying down, or leaning on 
the ground. 
Decurrent, 242, 3. 
Decussate ; crossing each other at right 
angles. 
Deflexed; bent downwards. 
Defoliation, 259. 
Dehiscence, 68, a, 115. 
Deltoid; shaped like the Greek letter a. 
Dentate, 235, 2. 
Denticulate, 235, 2. 
Depressed; pressed inward or flattened 
from above. 
Diandrous; with two stamens. 
Diadelphous; having the stamens united 
in 2 sets. 
Diaphanous ; transparent. 
Dichotomous; branching by two equal 
divisions ; forked. 
Diclinous ; (stamens and pistils) in sepa- 
rate flowers. 
Dicotyledonous plants, 127. 
Didymous ; two united. 
Didynamous; having two long stamens 
and two short ones in the same flower. 
Diffuse ; wide-spread, scattered. 
Digestion, 281. 
Digitate, 233, 18. 
Digynous ; with two pistils. 
Dicecious ; bearing staminate flowers on 
one individual, and pistillate on another. 
Discoid; in the Composite, when the 
flowers are all tubular in the same 
head. 
Disk, 107, 4; also, the centre of a head in 
the Composite. 
Dissected ; cut into 2 parts. 
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123 
Dissepiment; the partitions by which 
the cells of the pericarp are separated. 
Dissemination of seeds, 135. 
-Distichous; leaves or flowers in two op- 
posite rows. 
Distinct, 63, e. 
Divaricate; spreading in a straggling 
manner. 
Dodecandrous ; having twelve stamens. 
Dorsal, 84 (on the back). 
Drupe, 116, 6 ‘ 
Ducts, 33, f- 
Duramen, 203. 
Echinate; beset with prickles. 
Elementary organs, 29, &c. 
Elliptical, 232, 2. 
Elongated ; exceeding the common length. 
Emarginate, 236, 4. 
Embryo, 123, 124, 130. 
Emollient; softening. 
Endocarp, 112. 
Endogenous structure 210, 211. 
Endogens, 126, 197, 348. 
Endopleura, 118. 
Endosmose, 158, a. 
Endostome ; inner mouth or perforation. 
Ensiform ; sword-shaped, two-edged. 
Entire, 235, 1. 
Epicarp, 112. 
Epidermis, 35. 
Epigynous, 107, 4. 
Epiphytes, 150, 4. 
Equitant, 217, 1. 
Erose, 235, 5. 
Esculent; eatable. 
Etiolated; blanched or whitened. 
Exhalation, 269, 271. 
Exogenous structure, 198, 199, &c. 
Exogens, 127, 196, 348. 
Excsmose, 158, a. 
Exotic ; foreign ; not native. 
Exserted; projecting or extending out of 
the flower or sheath. 
Exsiccated; dried up. 
Exstipulate, 251. 
Extrorse, 68, 4. 
Fecula; the nutritious part of wheat and 
other fruits. 
Falcate ; sickle-shaped ; linear and curved. 
Farinaceous; mealy. 
Fascicle, 308. 
Fasciculated, 146, a. 
Fastigiate ; having a flat or level top. 
Favose; deeply pitted. 
Feather-veined, 230, 1. 
Febrifuge; efficacious against fever. 
Fecundation ; the act of making fruitful. 
Ferruginous ; iron-colored; rusty. 
Fibrils, 142, 6, 152. 
Fibro-vascular tissue, 260. 
Fibrous, 146. 
Filament, 67. 
Filiform ; shaped like a thread. 
