INDEX AND GLOSSARY: 
Containing Definitions of Botanical Terms, together with references to those 
paragraphs in which they are defined in the foregoing Lessons. 
A (in composition) signifies without; as 
apetalous, destitute of petals. 
Abbreviations, P 131 
Abortive, imperfect, useless. 
Acaulescent, 235. 
Acerose, needle-shaped.—Fig. 9. 
Achenium, 168, 
Aculeate, armed with prickles. 
Acumina'e, pointed, 33. 
Acute, sharp-angled, 38. 
Adherent, 82. 
Adhesion, 79. 
Adnute, growing to or upon, 105. 
Adnate stipules, 46, 
Aistivation, 184, 135. 
Aggregate, assembled close together. 
Aggregated fruits, 183. 
Albumen, Albuminous, 189, 192. 
Alburnum, white-wood or yap-wood; 
outer layers of the trunk. 
Alternate, 49. 
Ament, 149. 
Amplexicaul, stem-clasping, 41. 
Analysis, 263. 
‘Ancipital, two-edged. 
Angiosperms, 256, 257. 
Annual, yearly, 211. 
Anther, 100, 
Apetale, 258. 
Apetulous, without petals, 
Apex.—Fig. 56. 
Apex of the leaf, 2. 
Appendage, some unusual part added. 
Agrees, pressed closely to something 
else. 
Aquatic, growing in water. 
Arborescent, tree-like. 
Arid, dry. ver 
Arislate, bearded; as the glumes of bar- 
Armed, furnished with spines or thorns, 
as if in self-defence, 56. 
Aromatic, atrong-scented, spicy. 
Arrangement of leaves.—Lesson 9. 
Ascending, arising obliquely. 
Ascending axis.—Lesson 28. 
Attenwate, made slender or thin. 
Auriculate, car-shaped, 20,—Fig. 28. 
Awned, tipped with a bristle-shaped ap- 
pendage, as the beard of Burley, &c. 
Axil, 53. 
Axillary, growing out of the axils, 58. 
Axillary buds, 53. 
Avis, the stem or central column, about 
which the organs are arranged, 216, 
Baceate, berry-like; covered with pulp. 
Banner, 89. 
Burk, the external covering of woody 
stems. 
Suk s hard, short point, like that of a 
rd. 
Bearded, with long, stiff bristles or hairs, 
Berry, 174. 
Bi (in composition), twice; as in 
Bi-cuspidate, with 2 points. 
Bi-dentate, with 2 teeth. 
Biennial, of 2 years’ duration, 212, 
Bifid, 2-clett. 
Bifoliate, 2-leaved. 
Bifurcate, 2-forked. 
Bi-labiate, 2-lipped. 
Binate, 2 grown together. 
Bi-pinnate, twice pinnate, 89. 
Beg, twice pinnate-cleft, 24.~ 
ig. 81. 
Bi-saceate, with 2 tumors or sacs. 
Bi-ternate, twice ternate, 89. 
Bi-valved, 2-valved. 
Biography of the plant.—Lesson 26, 
Blade of the leaf, 2. 
Botanical analysis, 264. 
Bracteate ov Bracted, having bracts. 
Bractlets, little bracts. 
Bracts, 147. 
