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INDEX AND GLOSSARY 



Evergreen: remaining green, (204). 



Everlasting pea, 317, Fig. 246. 



Evolution, 232. 



Excretion by roots, 71. 



Exeurrent: the trunk or leader continued 

 through the top, (39). 



Exogenous stems, 260. 



Explosive fruits, 158. 



Exposure, 207. 



Expression, 60. 



Fagopyrum, 305, Fig. 454. 



Fagus Amerieana, 299; sylvatica, 299. 



Fall of leaf, 97, 271. 



Fastigiate trees, 60, Fig. 97. 



Fats, 246. 



Fehling's solution, 241, 247. 



Fern, 19; cells, 237; Christmas, 286, Figs. 

 304, 305; cinnamon, 285, Fig. 419 ; flow- 

 ering, 285; maidenhair, 285, Fig. 309; 

 ostrich, 285 ; royal, 285 ; sensitive, 285, 

 Fig. 310; fronds, 172; in good and poor 

 light, 42, Figs. 68, 69; stem, 261; 284; 

 discussed, 172, 191. 



Fertilization: impregnation of the ovule, 

 (259). 



Fertilizer, 69. 



Fibrous root, 7; tissue, 255. 



Fibro-vascular bundles, 257. 



Ficus elastiea, 251. 



Fig, climbing, Fig. 74. 



Figwort family, 331. 



Filament: stalk part of the stamen, (254). 



Filices, 284. 



Five-finger, 320. 



Fixing sections, 242, 243. 



Flag, 297, Fig. 437. 



Flagella, 235. 



Fleabane, 340. 



Fleur-de-lis, 297. 



Flora : plant population of a country or 

 place ; also a book describing this 

 popiilation, (327). 



Floral envelopes, 122. 



Florets: individual flowers of composites 

 and grasses, 146, (281). 



Flower, parts of, 122; -branches, 114; 

 -bud, 39; -cluster, 114; -stem, 119. 



Foliage, (6), 90. 



Follicle : dry dehiscent pericarp opening 

 on the front suture, (289). 



Food materials, 72 ; reservoirs, 31; sup- 

 ply, 230. 



Forest, Figs. 361-368, 373, 374; and light, 



43 ; beginning of, 222. 

 Formalin, 241. Formic acid, 246. 

 Forms of plants, 59. 

 Foul -gas, 75. 

 Foxglove, 3, 332. 

 Fragaria, 320, Figs. 264. 474, 475. 

 Framework, 2, 62, 100, Figs. 3, 4. 

 Free-swimming, 198. 

 Freesia refracta, 298, Fig. 439. 

 Fringed wintergreen, 134. 

 Frog spittle, 178. 

 Frond: leaf of fern, (317). 

 Fruit-bud, 39; -dot, 172; sugar, 245. 

 Fruits, 147. 

 Fuchsia, 18; and light, 42; bracts, 106, 



Fig. 160; cuttings, 26; flower, 123, Fig. 



189; inflorescence, 115: phyllotaxy, 49; 



water pores, 271. 

 Function: what a plant or a part does; 



its vital activities. 

 Fundamental tissue, 257. 

 Fungi, 85, 176, 180. 

 Funiculus, 164. 

 Funkia, 293, Figs. 432, 433. 

 Galanthus nivalis, 296, Fig. 436. 

 Galium, climbing, 108. 

 Gametophyte, 174, 194. 

 Gamopetalous: corolla of one piece, (251). 

 Gamosepalous: calyx of one piece, (251). 

 Gemmae, 187. 



Genealogy, 16, 106. r/g) 



Generation: period from birth to death, 

 Geranium, 18; chlorophyll, 75; cuttings, 



24, 26, Bigs. 32, 36, 37; family, 313; fish, 



314 ; inflorescence, Figs. 181, 183 ; and 



light, 42; kinds of, 313; in window, 



121, 163. 

 Germination, 164, 165. 

 Ginger, 19. 

 Glabrous: not hairy. 

 Gladiolus, 34, 35, 298, Figs. 50, 440. 

 Glaucous : covered with a "bloom "or a 



whitish substance. 

 Globoid inclusions, 249. 

 Glomerule: dense head-like cyme, (244). 

 Gloxinia, leaf cuttings, 22. 

 Glucose, 245, 247. 

 Glume, 146. 

 Glycerine, 241. 

 Goldenrod, 3, 142, 225, 339. 

 Gooseberry, 27, 153, 324. 



