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INDEX 



All numbers refer to pages, heavy type indicating illustrations. 



Drawing-paper, 224 



Drawers, 263, 26S 



Drugs, ]63; poisonous, 176 



Drupaceous, fruit, 365; nut, 376 



Drupe, 364 



Dry, cooperage, 243; fruits, 351; 



pericarp, 3ol, 355 

 Drying oils, 295 

 Duck, 230 

 Dugout canoe, 247 

 Dust-spore, 496, 49S, 505, 511 

 Dust-spore-case, 496 

 Dyeing, 222 



Dyers' Indigo Shrub, 292, 293 

 Dyestuffs, 290 



Early attempts at classifying, 306; 

 at describing, 312 



Ear of grain, 11 



Earth- vegetables, 35, 41 



Ebenales, Ebony Order 



Ebony Order, 401 



Ebracteate inflorescence, 362 



Ecological botany, 10 



Economic, botany, 9, 304; impor- 

 tance of fungi, 504; properties 

 of plants, 575 



Economics of co-operation, 468 



Egg-apparatus, 556 



Egg-cell, 514, 521, 551, 552, 556, 

 557, 560 



Egg-plant, 85, 121, 124, 382 



Egg sac members, 352 



Egg-sacs, 325, 326 



Egg-spore Alga?, Evolution of, 558 



Elastic, bands, 284; gums, 222, 

 280, 287; springs for dissemina- 

 tion, 560; webbing, 283 



Elater, 517, 620, 526, 541, 543 



Elder, 196, 197, 202, 208 



Ele(;tric apparatus, 288 



ElclUiria cardamomum, Carda- 

 moms 



Elm, 259; American, 259; bark, 

 163; English, 166; wood, 256, 

 259 



Elm Family: 398; American elm, 

 259; English elm, 167 



Elm-leaved Linden, 264 



Embryo, 29, 48. 3Ui, 317, 318, 351, 

 352, 514, 553, 556; bent, 363; 

 curved, 362 ; dicotyledonous, 



386; monocotj'ledonous, 3SS; 



uncoiled, 355; of fern, 538 

 Embryo, i)arts of; cotyledon, 46, 



48; plumule, 48; radicle, 48; 



scutellum, 3SS; seed-bud, 48; 



seed-leaf, 46, 48; seed-root, 48 

 Embryos, 547 

 Embryo-sac, 551, 556 

 Endogenous stems, 387 

 Endosperm, 551 

 Endospore, 478 

 Energy, in food, 114; measures of, 



115; of vegetable foods, 116 

 Engler and Prantl's classification, 



394 

 English, elm, 165, 167; oak, 258; 



walnut, 261, 296 

 En^aronment, 431 

 Enzyme, 32, 494 



Epidermis, 254, 530, 538, 640, 542 

 Epicalyx, 364 

 Epigynous flower, 365 

 Epiphyte, 508 

 Equisetacea, Hcouring-rush Fam- 



iiy 



Equisetinop, Scouring-rushes 



Equisetum arvense, Scouring-rush 



Erasers, 284 



Erect Silkv Clematis, 328-336, 

 337, 338-356 



Ericacea:, Heath Family 



Ericales, Heath Order 



Erysibe communis, Powdery-mil- 

 dew 



Erythroxylacecp, Coca Family 



ErythroxyJon Coca, Coca 



Essence of life, 568, 569 



Essences, 128, 146 



Essential organs of flower, 13, 43, 

 319 



Ethers, 159 



Euphorhincece, Spurge Family 



Euphorbia Lathyris, Caper Spurge 

 marginata, Snow-on-the-moun- 

 tain 



European, beech, 268; grape, 88, 

 93, 121, 124; larch, 271; rasp- 

 berry, 91 



Evening-primrose, 457 



p]vening-i)rinirose Family, 400 



Evolution, 433; by choice, 461, 

 464; in general, 464; of clematis, 



