INDEX AND GLOSSARY. 



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Axillary, growing out of the axils. 



Axis, ascending, 146, 148; erect, 148; 

 procumbent, prostrate, trailing, decum- 

 bent, 148; excurrent, 173; solvent, 

 174; descending, 114. 



Baccate, berry-like ; covered with pulp. 



Banner, same as Vexillum, 474. 



Banyan tree, 137. 



Baobab tree, 100. 



Bark, 700. 



Basidia, 631. Fig. 539. 



Basilar, basal, attached to the base. 



Bast cells, wood-cells of bark, 701. 



Beaked, ending in an extended tip. 



Bearded, with tufts of long, weak hairs. 



Berry, 566. 



Bi, Bis, twice (in compound words). 



Bicolor, two-colored. 



Bicuspidate, with two points or cusps. 



Bidentate, with two teeth. 



Biennial, of two years, 90. 



Bifid, cleft into two parts. 



Bifoliate, with two leaflets. 



Bifurcate, twice forked, or merely forked. 



Bilabiate, two-lipped. 



Binate. 289. 



Bipinnate, 289. 



Bipinnatifid, twice pinnatifid. Fig. 142. 



Biternate, twice ternate, 291. 



Bivalved, two-valved. 



Blade. See Lamina, 239. 



Blanched (plants), whitened for the want 



of light, 820. See Etiolated. 

 Bloom, a fine, white powder on some 



plants. 



Botany defined, 38. 

 Botany, elementary, 40. 

 Botany, physiological, 41, 636. 

 Botany, systematic, 42, 858. 

 Brachiate, with opposite, spreading 



branches (arms). 

 Bract, 319, 333. 

 Bracteate, having bracts. 

 Bracteoles, or bractlets, 333. 

 Branches, 'l07, 152. 

 Bristles, stiff, sharp hairs. 

 Bryology, the science of Mosses. 

 Bud, 105. Budding, 215. 

 Buds axillary, 202 ; accessory, 206. 

 Buds, adventitious, 207. 

 Buds, suppression of, 205. 

 Bud-scales. 197, 305. 

 Bulb, 191; tunicated, 193; scaly, 193. 

 Bulblets, 216. 



Caducous, dropping off early. 

 Calyciflorae, 902. 

 Cffispitous, forming tufts or turf. 

 Calceolate, slipper-shaped. 

 Calycine. calyx-like. 



Calyculate, having an outer calyx or calyx- 

 like involucre. 



Calyptra, the hood of the sporange (cap- 

 sule) of a moss. Fig. 514, 519. 



Calyx, the outer floral envelope, 900. 



Cambium, 709. 



Campanulate, bell-shaped, 497. 



Campy lotropous, 538. 



Canaliculate, channeled. 



Canescent, grayish white. 



Capillary, capillaceous, hair-shaped. 



Capitate, head-shaped, growing in close 

 clusters, or heads. 



Capitulum, a little head, 354. 



Capreolate, bearing tendrils. 



Capsule, 576. 



Carbon, 830. Carbonic Acid, 825. 



Carina, 474. Carinate, boat-shaped, hav- 

 ing a sharp ridge beneath. 



Carpel, carpellary, 516. 



Carpophore, 553, 557. Fig. 432. 



Cartilaginous, firm and tough in tex- 

 ture. 



Caruncle, 586. 

 i Caryophyllaceous, 472. 

 ! Caryopsis, 560. 

 I Catkin, 348. See Ament. 

 I Caudex, 176. 



i Caulescent, 169. Caulis, 169. 

 | Cauline, relating to the stem. 



Cellular tissue, 664. Cell, 639. 

 | Cell-growth, 752; life, 743. 

 ! Cellular bark, 702. 

 ! Cellulose, 654, 744. 

 | Centrifugal inflorescence, 343. 



Centripetal inflorescence, 342. 



Cephalous, same as Capitate. 



Cereal, relating to grains, corn, etc. 



Cernuous, nodding (less inclined than 

 pendulous). 



Chaff, chaffy. See Paleaceous. 



Chalaza, 535. 



Channeled, hollowed out like a gutter. 



Characters, relative value of, 839. 



Chartaceous, with the texture of paper. 



Chlorophylle, 657, 733, 749. 



Chlorosis, 432. 



Ciliate, fringed with marginal hairs. 



Cienchyma, 671. 



Cion or Scion, 158. 



Cinereus, ash-gray, ash-color. 



Circinate, rolled inward from the top, 213. 



Circulation of the sap, 748. 



Circumscissile, 552. 



Cirrhous. furnished with a tendril. 



Cirrhous roots, 135. 



Classes, artificial, 877, etc. 



Classes, natural, 898. 



Classification, artificial, 873. 



Clavate, club-shaped. 



Coarctate. contracted, drawn together. 



