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INDEX 



Aspergillus, 295 

 Aspidium, 14, 328 

 Assimilation, 20, 124 

 Autobasidioraj-cetes, 299 

 Auxiliary cell, 284 

 .\xil, of leaf, 90 



B 



Bacillus, 285, 286 

 Bacteria, 285-289 



in soil, 32 



nitrifying, 32, 33, 289 



nitrogen-fixing, 32, 33, 289 



pathogenic, 288 



saprophytic, 287 

 Bacterium, 286 

 Bacterium, 32 

 Baneberry, fruit of, 201 

 Barberry, rust of, 298 

 Bark, 91, 94, 96 

 Basidia fungi, 296 

 Basidiomycetes, 296 

 Basidiospore, 296 

 Basidium, 296 

 Bast, 97-100 



of root, 47 

 Bast-fiber, 97, 98 

 Bean, etiolated seedling of, 160 



germination of, 202 



seed of, 199 



starch grains of, 120 

 "Bee bread," 194 

 Beet sugar, 119 

 Bennettitales, 350 

 Berry, 200 

 Binomial s.ystem of nomenclature, 



260 

 Black fungi, 294 

 B ack knot, of plums, 294, 295 

 Black molds, 290 

 Blade, of leaf, 63, 64, 65 

 Blights, 289, 291 

 Blueberry, flower of, 190 

 Blue-green algae, 265, 266 

 Blue molds, 295 

 Body-cell, of pollen, 347, 353 

 Boston fern, bud mutation in, 223 



Botany, defined, 1 



history of, 4-8 



importance of, 1 



subdivisions of, 2-4 

 Branch, 89 

 Brown algae, 278 

 Bryales, 320 



Bryophyta, 11, 14, 311-323 

 Bud, 88, 92 



lateral, 88, 92 



scales, 89 



terminal, 88, 92 

 Budding, of yeasts, 295, 296 



reproduction by, 183, 295 

 Bulb, 93, 95, 184 

 Bundle sheath, 67, 104 

 Buphthalmum, pollen of, 186 

 Burdock, fruit of, 201 

 Butter, spoiling of, 133 

 Button-bush, flower of, 363 



Calcium, importance of, 31 

 Calyptra, 321, 322 

 Calyx, 188 

 Cambium, 101, 146-149 



cork, 148 



interfascicular, 104 

 Campanulales, 364 

 Cane sugar, 119 

 Capillarity, 25-29 



in sap ascent. 111 

 Capillary water, in soil, 25 

 Capsule, fruit type, 199 



of mosses, 321, 322 

 Carbohydrates, 119-121 

 Carbon dioxide, in atmosphere, 69 



in photosynthesis, 69 

 Carex, 365 

 Carotin, 70 

 Carpel, 346 



Carpogonium, 282, 283 

 Carpospore, 282, 283 

 Carya, 91 



Catkin, 192, 193, 362 

 Cell, 19, 44, 45, 100, 139 



division of, 139, 140, 144 



