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INDEX AND GLOSSARY 



tendiug a flower, or belonging to an in- 

 florescence. 120, 140. 



Bracteate. Having bracts. 



Bracteolate. Having bractlets. 



Bractlets. Secondary bracts, as on a pedicel 

 of a flower. 



Bread Mold, 160, 168. 



Brown Algae, 158. 



Bryophytes, 198. 



Buds, accessory, 29 ; adventitious, 33 ; ax- 

 illary, 29; comparative vigor, 26; discus- 

 sion introducing study of, 247 ; dormant 

 condition, 30 ; general structure, 23 ; grow- 

 ing, 27 ; laboratory studies, 23 ; latent, 32 ; 

 mixed, 30 ; naked, 81 ; nondevelopment, 25, 

 32 ; protection, 27, 28, 31 ; time taken to 

 unfold, 248 ; unfolding, 25 ; winter, 29. 



Bulb, 60. 



Bulbiferous. Bearing bulbs. 



Bulblets, 58. 



Caduceous. Falling off early. 



Calcarate. Produced into, or having, a spur. 



Calcium oxaiate, 217. 



Callus. A hard protuberance, or callosity. 



Calyculate. Having brae ts around calyx, imi- 

 tating an outer calyx. 



Calyptra, 203. 



Calyx, 100, 110. 



Cambium, 222 ; of cork, 225. 



Campanulate. Bell-shaped ; cup-shaped ; 

 with a broad base. 132. 



Campylotropous (ovule or seed). So curved 

 as to bring apex and base nearly together. 

 138. 



Canaliculate. Longitudinally channeled. 



Canescent. Hoary, with gray pubescence. 



Capitate. Shaped like a head ; collected into 

 a head or dense cluster. 



Capsule. A dry, dehiscent fruit composed of 

 more than one carpel. 151. 



Carbon assimilation, 234. 



Carbon dioxide, source of, 234. 



Carinate. Having a keel or a projecting longi- 

 tudinal medial line on the lower surface. 



Carpel. A simple pistil, or one member of a 

 compound pistil. 104. 



Carpogonium, 181. 



Carpospore, 182. 



Caruncle, 152. 



Carunculate. Having a caruncle. 



Caryopsis. A grain, as of grasses ; a seed- 

 like fruit with a thin pericarp adnate to the 

 contained seed. 150. 



Catkin. An ament. 141. 



Caudate. Having a slender taillike appendage. 



Caudex. The persistent base of an otherwise 

 annual herbaceous stem. 



Caulescent. Hav'ng a manifest stem. 



Caulicle, 17. 



Cauline. Belonging to the stem. 



Cell, 212; changes in shape. 218; of ovary, 

 105; of stamens, 136; typical, 173. 



Cell fusion, 220. 



Cell sap, 216. 



Cellular structure of plants, 116. 



Cellulose, 218. 



Cell wall, 217. 



Cespitose. Growing in tufts ; forming mats 

 or turf. 



Chaff. A small, thin scale or .bract, becoming 

 dry and membranous. 



Chaffy. Having or resembling chaff. 



Chaloza, 137, 153. 



Chlorophyll, 23, 72. 



Chlorophyll granules, 215. 



Chloroplastids, 215. 



Chromatophore, 173. 



Cilium, 172. 



Ciliate. Marginallv fringed with hairs. 



Ciliolate. Minutely ciliate. 



Cinereous. Ash color. 



Circinate. Coiled from the top downward, as 

 the young frond of a fern. 



Circumscissile. Dehiscing by a regular trans- 

 verse circular line of division. 



Clavaria, 195. 



Clavate. Club-shaped ; gradually thickened 

 upward. 



Claw, 132. 



Cleistogamous. Fertilized in the bud, with- 

 out the opening of the flower. 119. 



Cleft. Cut about to the middle. 95. 



Climbers, 53. 



Club Moss, 167. 



Coalescence. The union of parts or organs 

 of the same kind. 114. 



Cochleate. Spiral like a snail shell. 



Collenchyma, 219. 



Columella. The persistent axis of some 

 capsules, spore cases, etc. 



Coma. i. tuft of hairs. 152. 



Comose. Furnished with a coma. 



Commissure. The surface by which one 

 carpel joins another, as in the Urnbelliferse. 



Complete (flower), 128. 



Components of plant body, 231. 



Compound. Composed of two or more simi- 

 lar parts united into one whole. Compound 

 leaf: one divided into separate leaflets. 82, 

 96. 



Compressed. Flattened laterally. 



Conceptacle, 179. 



Conduction of sap in leaf, 69. 



Conduplicate. Folded together lengthwise. 



Confluent. Eunning into each other; 

 blended into one. 



Coniferous. Cone bearing. 



Coniferous flower, 102. 



Conjugation, 172, 182. 



Connate. United congenitally. 



Connective. The portion of a stamen which 

 connects the two cells of the anther. 108. 



Connivent. Coming into contact ; con- 

 verging. 



Convolute. Rolled up longitudinally. 



Cordate. Heart-shaped, with the point up- 

 ward. 93. 



Coriaceous. Leathery in texture. 



Cork, 225. 



