GENERAL AND GLOSSARIAL INDEX 



The names of Orders and larger groups are in small capitals ; the scientific <jr Latin 

 names of genera in italics ; the popular or English names in Roman characters ; descriptive 

 terms begin with small letters and are indented. 



Abele, 455 



accumbent cotyledons, 32 

 Acer, III 

 Acerns, 469 



ACERINE.E, III 



achene, xxxi 

 Achillea, 262 



ACHLAMYDE^, xlvii, 434 



achlamydeous flowers, xxiv 

 Aconite, Winter, 17 

 AconUum, 19 

 A corns, 508 

 Actaa, 19 



acuminate, with a long tapering point. 

 Adder's-meat, 82 



ad n ate, united. 

 Addnis, 7 

 Adoxa, 229 



adpressed hairs, xxii 



adventitious roots, xvi 

 ^gopddhim, 209 



aerial stem, one that is above ground, xvii, 

 xix 



aestivation, xxviii 

 ^thusa, 217 

 Agrimdnia, 153 

 Agrimony, 153 

 Agrdstis, 558 

 Aira, 562 

 Ajuga, 400 



albumen, the food-store round the embryo 

 in the seed. 

 Alchemilld, 153 

 Alder, 447 



Alder, Berry -bearing, in 

 Ale-hoof, 389 

 Alexanders, 202 

 Al fa-grass, 548 

 AUsma, 510 

 Alismace/E, 509 

 Alkanet, 338 

 Alleluia, 104 

 Allidria, 44 

 Alliufn, 488 

 All-seed, 98 

 Almond, 138 

 Alnus, 447 

 Aloe, American, 478 

 Aloes, 4S3 

 Alopecurus, 555 



Alsine, 86 

 Althda, 93 

 Alyssum, 48 

 Amaranth, 407 

 Amaranth Family, 407 

 Amaranphace.e, 407 

 Amardnthus, 407 

 Amarvllide.e, 477 

 Amaryllis Family, 477 

 A mini, 206 

 Atnmdphila, 561 



amplexicaul, embracing the stem, applied 

 to the base of leaves. 

 Anagdllis, 322 

 Anchiisa, 338 

 Andromeda, 306 

 Anemone, 5 

 Angelica, 219, 220 



angiosperms, xxxvi, xxxix, i 



angustisept siliqua, 32 



annular, ring-shaped. 

 Antenndria, 257 

 Anthemis, 263 



anther, xxviii, xxix 

 Anthoxdnthum, 555 

 Anthyllis, 126 

 Antirrhhnivi, 358 



antiscorbutic, 32 

 Apera, 561 



apiculate, with a small abrupt point. 

 Apimn, 204 



apocarpous carpels, xxix 



apocarpous fruits, xxxi 

 ApocynAce^, 326 

 Apple, 161 

 Aquilegia, ij 

 A rabis, 38 

 AraliAce>e, 225 



i^RAUCARlACE^, 592 



Arbutus, 305 

 Archangel, 397 

 Archangelica, 220 

 Arctiutn, 275 

 Arctostdphylos, 306 

 Arendna, 79 



aril, a fleshy outgrowth on the seed, as in 

 the Spindle-tree, 109 

 Aristoldchia, 431 

 AristolochiAce^, 430 

 Armordcia, 50 



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