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GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 



Carinate (Lat. carina, a keel), 

 keeled. 



Carpophy ta (Gr. xapiro's, fruit, and 

 /uToV, plant). 



Castaneous (Lat. castanea, a 

 chestnut), chestnut-colored. 



Caudate (Lat. cauda, a tail), fur- 

 nished with a slender appendage re- 

 sembling a tail. 



Caudex (Lat. a stem), the upright 

 rootstock forming the trunk of a tree- 

 fern, 8. 



Cellulose (Lat. cellula, a little cell), 

 the substance composing the wall of 

 cells, containing the elements car- 

 bon, hydrogen, and oxygen. 



Ceraceous (Lat. cera, wax), hav- 

 ing the nature of wax. 



Ceratopterideae, 77. 



Ceratopteris, 101 ; also 6, 14, 77. 



Characeae, 51. Literature of, 56. 



Chartaceous (Lat. charta, a leaf 

 of paper), having the texture of paper 

 or parchment. 



Cheilanthes, 9* ; also 3 , 6, 8, 13, 



26, 43, 77- 



Chlorophyll (Gr. x* w P'i green, 

 and ff>v\\ov, leaf), the green grains 

 forming the coloring matter of plants. 



Christmas-fern. Vide Dry- 

 opteris. 



Ciliate (Lat. cilium, an eyelash), 

 having on the margin a fringe of 

 hairs resembling the fringing eye- 

 lashes. 



Cinnamon-fern. Vide Os- 

 munda. 



Giro in ate (Lat. circinus, a pair of 

 compasses), rolled inward from the 

 apex, 8. 



Classification of the Vegetable 

 Kingdom, 48. Principle of, 45. 



Cliff-brake. Vide Pellaea. 



Climbing-fern. Vide Lygo- 

 dium. 



Cloak-fern. Vide Notho- 

 lasna. 



Club-moss. Vide Lycopo- 

 dium. 



Confluent (Lat. con, together, and 

 Jluere, to flow), blended together. 



Connate (Lat. con, together, and 

 nasci, to be born), united together 

 from the first. 



Cordate (Lat. cor, the heart), heart- 

 shaped. 



Coriaceous (Lat. corium, a hide), 

 leathery. 



Cotton-fern. Vide Notho- 

 laena. 



Crenate (Lat. crena, a notch), hav- 

 ing the margin scalloped with rounded 

 teeth. 



Crenulate (Lat. crenula, a little 

 notch), scalloped with small rounded 

 teeth. 



Cryptogamia (Gr. Kpvirro's, hid- 

 den, ya'/xos, marriage), flowerless 

 plants ; an obsolete term. 



Cryptogramma, 97; also 2, 14, 77. 



Cultivation, Literature of, 7. 



Cuneate (Lat. cuneus, a wedge), 

 wedge-shaped. 



Cystopteris, 118; also 4,5, 6, 16, 

 27, 78. 



Decurrent (Lat. de, down, and 



currere, to run), prolonged on the 



rachis. 



Deer-fern. Vide Lomaria. 

 Deltoid (Gr. Se'Ara, the letter D, and 



ct'Jof, form), triangular, like the Greek 



delta. 

 Dentate (Lat. dens, a tooth), 



toothed. 



Denticulate (Lat. denticulus, di- 

 minutive of dens t tooth), finely 



toothed. 

 Desmidiacese, 50. Literature of, 



56. 

 Determination of Species, 



68. 

 Devonian Age, Pteridophytes of, 



66. 

 Diatomaceae, 50. Literature of, 



56. 



Dichotomous (Gr. ^i\a.. asunder, 



and reVreiv. to cut), two-forked. 

 Dicksonia, 121 ; also 3 , 5 , 7. 17. 79. 

 Dicksonieae, 79 

 Pimorphism, 3. Literature, of 7. 



