INDEX 



Ascobolus, 73. 



Ascocarp, 70, 71, 72, 73, 75, 76. 



Ascogenous hyphae, 72, 73. 



Ascogonium, 73. 



Ascomycetes, 70. 



Ascospores, 70, 72, 73, ?6, 77- 



Ascus, 70, 72, 73, 76, 77, 7$, 80. 



Ash, 412, 415. 



Aspergillus, 74. 



Aspidium, habit and sporangia, 163; game- 



tophyte, 166. 

 Assimilation, 364, 401. 

 Atrichum, leaf cells, 450. 

 Atropin, 415. 

 Auriculariales, 86. 

 Autobasidiomycetes, 86. 

 Autonomic movements, 453. 

 Autotrophic plants, 362, 380. 

 Auxiliary cells, Polysiphonia, 59, 60. 

 Auxospores, 53. 

 Azolla, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175. 



Bacillus, ii. 



Bacteria, 10, //; aerobic, 13 ; anaerobic, 13 ; 



iron, 14 ; nitrifying, 13 ; nitrogen, 13 ; 



pathogenic, 13 ; saprophytic, 13 ; sulphur, 



14. 



Bark, loss of, 355. 

 Basidiomycetes, 80. 

 Basidiospore, 80, 83, 89. 

 Basidium, 80, 82, 83, 89. 

 Batrachospermum, 57. 

 Bennettitales, 185. 

 Bennettites, strobilus and seed, 189. 

 Bilabiate flowers, 282. 

 Biophores, 291. 



Biophytum, records of responses, 429. 

 Black fungi, 76. 

 Black knot, 76. 

 Black mold, 67. 

 Bleeding, 332, 334. 

 Blepharoplast, 200, 211. 

 Blue-green algae, 4. 

 Blue mold, 74. 

 Body cell, 199, 200, 211, 215, 217, 224, 



235- 



Bog mosses, no. 

 Boletus, 88. 

 Botrychium, 149 ; habit, 150; gametophyte 



and archegonium, 154. 

 Botrydium, 33, 34. 

 Bowenia, 192. 



Box elder, section of stem, 245. 

 Branches, fall of, 355 ; origin of, 419. 

 Brown algae, 44. 

 Brucin, 415. 

 Bryales, 115. 

 Bryophytes, 92 



Bulbochaete, 30, 31. 

 Butyric fermentation, 411. 



Caffein, 415. 



Callus, 419. 



Calymmatotheca, 184. 



Calyptra, 95, 97, 100, 113, 118. 



Calyptrogen, 247. 



Calyx, 252. 



Cambium, 150, 192, 243, 249. 



Campanales, 282. 



Campylotropous ovule, 261, 262. 



Canna, megasporangium, 263. 



Capillarity, and ascent of water, 349. 



Capillitium, puff balls, 90 ; slime molds, 3. 



Capsella, embryo, 272, 273. 



Capsule, liverworts, 100, 103, 105, 108, 109; 



mosses, 113, 114, 115, 118, 119, 120; 



ferns, 164. 



Carbohydrates, 358, 374. 

 Carbon assimilation, 363. 

 Carbon dioxid, admission of, 365 ; as raw 



material, 364. 

 Carnivorous plants, 386. 

 Carotin, 367, 368. 

 Carpel, 260. 



Carpogonium, 56, 57, 59, 60. 

 Carpospore, 56, 57, 59, 60. 

 Catabolism, 402. 

 Catalysis, 399. 

 Catalyst, 399. 

 Catkin, 279. 

 Cell, organs, 297; role of living, 351 ; wall, 



297, 298, 306. 



Cellulose, 299, 359; "reserve," 390. 

 Central body, blue-green algae, 5. 

 Central cylinder, 124. 

 Centripetal succession, flowers, 256. 

 Ceratozamia, megasporophyll, 197. 

 Chaetophora, 26. 

 Chalaza, 266, 269. 

 Chalazogamy, 268. 

 Chantransia, 58. 

 Chara, apical cell, 42; habit, 41; sex organs, 



43- 



Charales, 41. 

 Chemical stimuli, 438. 

 Chemotaxy, 447. 

 Chemotropism, 473 ; fungi, 473 ; pollen 



tubes, 474. 

 Chlamydomonas, 15. 

 Chlamydospore, 81. 

 Chlorenchyma, 366. 

 Chlorophyceae, 15. 

 Chlorophyll, 2, 367. 

 Chlorophyllin, 367. 

 Chloroplast, 297, 366, 376, 450. 

 Chlorovaporization, 330. 



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