GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 



Car in ate (Lat. carina, a keel), 

 keeled. 



Carpophyta (Gr. Kapnds, fruit, and 

 </>vroV, plant), 49. 



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. 



Ceratopteridese, 77. 



Ceratopteris, 101 ; also 6, 14, 77. 



Characese, 50. 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 At P'i green, 



and </>v'AAoj', leaf), the green grains 



forming the coloring matter of plants. 

 Christmas-fern. FzV/*Aspid- 



ium. 

 Ciliate (Lat. cilium, an eyelash), 



having on the margin a fringe of 



hairs resembling the fringing eye- 

 lashes. 

 Cinnamon-fern. Vide Os- 



munda. 

 Ci rein 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- 



Isena. 

 Club-moss. Vide Lycopo- 



dium. 



Confluent (Lat. con, together, and 

 fluere, to flow), blended together. 



Connate (L;it. 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. ere no., a notch), hav- 

 ing the margin scalloped with rounded 

 teeth. 



Crenulate (Lat. crenula, a little 

 notch), scalloped with small rounded 

 teeth. 



Cryptogamia (Gr. Kpunro's, hid- 

 den, ya/u.os, marriage), flowerless 

 plants ; an obsolete term. 



Cryptogramme, 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. 6eAi-a, the letter D, and 

 ei'Sos, form), triangular, like the Greek 

 delta. 



Dentate (Lat. dens, a tooth), 

 toothed. 



Denticulate (Lat. denticulus, di- 

 minutive of dens, tooth), finely 

 toothed. 



Desmidiaceae, 49. Literature of, 



53- 



Determination of Species, 



68. 

 Devonian Age, Pteridophytes of, 



66. 

 Diatomacese, 49 Literature of, 



53- 

 Dichotomous (Gr. fit'xa, asunder, 



and refivetv, to cut), two-forked. 

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

 Dicksonieae, 79. 

 Dimorphism, 3. Literature, of 7. 



