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INDEX AND GLOSSARY. 



Baccate ; berry-like, covered with pulp. 



Banner, 105, 5. 



Bark, 205. 



Beak ; a hard, short point, like the beak 



of a bird. 



Bearded ; with long awns or hairs. 

 Berry, 116, 14. 



Bicuspidate ; with two points. 

 Bidentate ; with two teeth. 

 Biennial ; of two years' duration. 

 Bifid; two-cleft. 

 Bifoliate ; with two leaves. 

 Bilabiate ; two-lipped. 

 Bifurcate ; two-forked. 

 Binate ; growing two together. 

 Bipinnate, 240, 5. 

 Bipinnatifid ; twice pinnatifid. 

 Bisaccate ; with two tumors or sacks. 

 Biternate, 240, 7. 

 Bivalved ; two-valved. 

 Botany defined, 1. 

 Braclnate; with opposite spreading 



branches (arms). 

 Bracteate ; having bracts.^ 

 Bracteolse ; little bracts. 

 Bracts, 252. 



Branchlets ; small branches. 

 Branch, 170. 

 Bristles ; rigid hairs. 

 Bud, 20, 22. 165169. 

 Bulb, 173. 

 Bulbiferous, 178, c. 

 Bulblets, 178, c. 

 Bulbous ; having bulbs. 



Caducous, 98. 



Caespitose ; turfy, growing in tufts. 



Calycine ; of a calyx. 



Calculated; having bracteoles resem- 

 bling an external or additional calyx. 



Calyptra; (an extinguisher) applied to 

 the cover of the theca of some mosses. 



Calyx, 55, 95. 



Cambium, 207. 



Campanulate, 104, 1. 



Campylotropous ; denotes that the ovule 

 is curved upon itself. 



Canaliculate ; channelled, or furrowed. 



Canescent ; hoary, approaching to white. 



Capillary ; very slender, hair-like. 



Capitate ; growing in a head. 



Capsule, 116, 1. 



Carina, 105, 5. Carinate, keel-shaped. 



Caryopsis ; a small, 1 -celled, indehiscent 

 pericarp, adhering to the seed which it 

 encloses, as in the grasses. 116,8. 



Carpels, 77. 



Carpophore ; the axis of the fruit in the 

 UmbelUferce. 



Cartilaginous; gristly. 



Caryophyllaceous, 105, 4. 



Cathartic; purgative. 



Catkin, 299: 



Caudate ; with a tail-like appendage. 



Caudex, 142, a. 



Caulescent, 184. 



Cauline, 220. 



Caulis, 184. 



Cellular ; composed of cells. 



Cellular tissue, 29. 



Cellulares, 47. 



Ceniuous; nodding. 



Chaffy ; with chaff like processes. 



Chalaza, 91. 



Chemical basis of vegetable tissue, 28. 



Chlorophyll, 215, a. 



Chromulas ; green coloring-matter or par 



tides. 



Cilise ; hairs like those of the eyelash. 

 Ciliate, 41, a. 

 Circinate, 217, 7. 

 Circumscissile, 115, 5. 

 Cirrhose, 240, 2. 

 Clavate; club-shaped. 

 Claw, 102. 

 Climbers, 187. 

 Cochleate; resembling the shell of a 



snail. 



Cohering; connected. 

 Collum, 141. 

 Columella, 116, a. 

 Colored ; not green. 

 Columnar ; formed like columns. 

 Column; the consolidated stamens and 



pistils of Orchidaceae. 

 Coma, 118, a. 

 Commissure ; the inner face of the car 



pels of Umbelliferse. 

 Compound leaves, 238. 

 Comose ; a kind of inflorescence, having 



a tuft of sessile bracts on the top of it. 

 Compound leaves; consisting of several 



leaflets. 



Compressed, 222, 1. 

 Concave ; hollow. 



Concentric ; points or lines at equal dis- 

 tance from a common centre. 

 Concrete; hardened, or formed into one 



Confluent ; running into one another. 



Conjugate ; joined in pairs. 



Connate; joined together at the base, 



242, 4. 



Connectile, 68, b. 

 Connivent; converging. 

 Conoid ; like a cone. 

 Contorted ; 108, 4, twisted. 

 Convolute, 108, 2. 

 Convex ; rising spherically. 

 Coral Islands, 12, c. 

 Cordate, 234, 25. 



Coriaceous ; leathery, thick, and tough. 

 Corm, 179. 

 Cornute; horned. 

 Corolla, 56, 100. 

 Corona (a crown); the expanded cup 



like disk of the Narcissus, &c. 

 Corymb, 301. 



Corymbose ; arranged like a corymb 

 Costate; ribbed. 



