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INDEX 



All numbers refer to pages, heavy type indicating illustrations. 



Anabolism, 84 



Anabolisni imitated, 563 



Anacardiacece, Sumac Family 



Analogous organs, 321, 32(j 



Analogues, 321, 322, 326 



Analog}^, 326 



Ananas salivas, Pineapple 



Anatropous ovules, 346, 355 



Ancestral forms vague, 441 



Ancient food-plants, 124 



Andrcecium (see also stamens), 

 346, 347 



Andropogon halepensis, Johnson 

 Grass 

 Sorghum, Broom-corn 



Anemone quinquefolia, American 

 Wood-anemony 

 nemerosa, Wood-anemony 

 Fulsalilla. Pasque-flower 



Anemony, 328-356, 341, 404, 405 



Angiospermm, (Case-seed Class), 8 



Angiospermous gynoecium, 392 



Angiosperms, 397; as dominating 

 plants, 560; evolution of, 538 



Aniline dyes, 290 



Animal, fibers, 223; kingdom, 561, 

 562 



Animals and plants defined, 573, 

 574 



Animals evolved from plants, 466 



Anise, 137, 142, 170, 370, 412, 413 



Annual herbs, 333; rings, 253 



Annuals, 352 



Annulus, 529 



Anther, 12, 14, 319, 550 



Antheridia, 515, 516, 517, 527, 637 



Antheridia-carriers, 516 



Antheridiophores, 516 



Anthers dehiscing by longitudinal 

 slits, 354, 355; by uplifted 

 valves, 360; poricidal, 379; 

 syngenesious, 384 



Anthoceros Icevis, Horned-liverwort 



.4 nthocerotacece. Horned-liverwort 

 Family 



Antiseptics, 177 



Apetalous flowers, 349 



Aphorism of Linnaeus, 561; re- 

 vised, 574 



Apium grareolens, Celery 



Apoc.ijnaccce, Dogbane Family 



Apothecium, 505 



Appendages for disseminaticjn, 5()0 

 Apple, 86, 87, 88, 121, 124, 363, 



408, 409; pulp, 114; wood, 269 

 Aquatic ancestry of fernworts, 



550 

 Aquifoliacece, Holly Familj'^ 

 Aquilegia vulgaris. Columbine 

 Arabin, 163, 164 

 Arabinose, 164 

 Araceoe, Arum Family 

 Arachis hypogcea, Peanut 

 .4ra/es, Arum Order 

 Araliacece, Ginseng Family 

 Archegonia-carriers, 518 

 Archegonia, rutlimentary, 556 

 Archegoniophores, 518 

 Archegonium, 514, 528, 537, 551 

 Archichlamydeos, Crowfoot Series 

 Archichlamydeous flower, 378 

 Aril, 213, 393 

 Arrhenius, Svante, 568 

 Arrow-poison, 189 

 Artemisia Absinthium, Wormwood 

 Artichoke, Jerusalem, 43, 61, 62, 



120, 125, 385, 420, 421 

 Articles of dress, 284 

 Artificial, cell, 563; feeding, 563; 



lightning, 168; limbs, 245; 280; 



selection, 446, 447, 455; silk, 



224, 228; svstems, 307 

 Arum Family, 389, 397, 422, 423: 



sweet-flag, 174 

 Arum Order, 389, 397, 422, 423 

 Asafetida, 170, 172, 173, 175, 287, 



370, 412, 413 

 Ascolichenes, Spore-sac Lichens 

 Ascomycetes, Spore-sac Fungi 

 Ascospore, 501 

 Ascus, 501 

 Ash, in coal, 300; in foods, 114; 



in grains, 30; in peat, 300; in 



wood, 298, 300 

 Ash, splints, 241; white, 259; 



wood, 562, 259 

 Asparagus, 55, 64, 65, 114, 120, 



124, 390, 424, 425 

 Asparagus officinalis, Asparagus 

 Aspen, American, 264 

 Aspidium Filix-mas, Mule-fern 

 Astragalus gummifer, Tragacanth 



Shrub 

 Astringents, 154, 166 



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