INDEX AND GLOSSARY. 
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Branches, 208. 
Branching root, 219. 
Branchlets, small branches. 
Bristles, stitf hairs, 
Bud, 52. 
Bulb, 280, 
Buibiets, little bulbs borne above ground. 
Bulbous, having bulbs, 
Bushes, 215, 
Caducous, falling off early. 
Calyculate, having bracts resembling an 
outer, additional calyx. 
Calyx, 65, 
Campanulate, bell-shaped, 91. 
Cunescent, whitish with fine hairs, 
Capillary, very slender, hair-like. 
Capitate, head-shaped, globular. 
Capsule, a pod, 182. 
Curinate, keel-shaped. 
Carpels, 124, 
Cartilaginous, gristly. 
Caryophyllaceous, 88. 
Curyopsis, grain or kernel. 
Catkin, 149, 
Cuudate, with a tail. 
Caulescent, 235. 
Cauline, 146, 
Caulis, 235, 
Cellular, composed of cells. 
Cernuous, nodding. 
Chaffy, with chaff. 
Character, marks which distinguish a spe- 
cies, genus, &e. oe 
Chartaceous, of the texture of writing- 
aper. 
Cutie, hairs, like those of the eye lashes. 
Ciliate, furnished with cilie. 
Circinate, 140. 
Circumscissile, opening like a lid. 
Cirrhous, tarnished with a tendril. 
Classification.—Lesson 29. 
Clavate, club-shaped. 
Claw, 71. 
Climbers, 54, 236. 
Climbing fern, 12. ’ 
Cochleate, resembling the shell of a snail. 
Cohering, connected. 
Cohesion, 79. 
Cohorts, 258. 
Colored, not green. 
Column, the consolidated stamens and 
pistils of the Orchis. 
Coma, a tuft of hairs, 187, 188. 
Complete flower, 110. 
Compeund flowers, 156, 
Compound leaves, 23-35. 
Compound petiole, 44, 
Compound pistil, 124. 
Compressed, flattened lengthwise. 
Cone, the sume as strobile, 188, 185. 
Confluent, joining together. 
Conjugate, joined in pairs, 
Connate, joined together at base, 43. 
Gonneotile, 102, 
Connivent, converging together. 
Conoids, 258. 
Contorted, twisted, 180. 
Convex, rising spherically, 
Convolute, 182, 
Cordate, heart-shaped, 19. 
Cortaceous, leathery, thick and tongh. 
Corm, 230. 
Cornute, Corniculate, horned, 
Corolla.—Lesson 12. 
Corona or Crown, the expanded, cup-like 
disk of Narcissus, &e. 
Corymb, 151. 
Corymbous, arranged like a corymb, 
Costate, ribbed. 
Cotyledon, 190, 191. 
Creeper, 282. 
Crenate and Crenulate, 81. 
Crisped, Crispate, with excess of margin, 
Cristate or Crested, with raised ridge, 
Cruciform, 87. 
Cryptogamia, 250. 
Cueullate, hood: shaped. 
Culm, the stem of grasses, 
Cuneate, wedge-shaped, 17. 
Cupule, cup of the acorn, &e. ; 
Cuspidate, with a small abrupt point, 88, 
Cuticle, the epidermis, scarf-skin, 
Cyme, 157. 
Cymous, like a cyme. 
Decandrous, with 10 stamens, 
Deciduous, falling off in autumn. 
Decompound, more than once compound- 
‘ed, as bi or tri-pinnate. 
Decumbent, 224, 
Decurrent, extending down the stem as 
do the leaves of Mullen. 
Decussate, crossing at right angles. 
Deflexed, bent downwards. 
Definite, 106. 
Dehiscence, 102, 
Dehiscent fruits, 166. 
Deltoid, 15. 
Dentate, Denticulate, 30. 
Depressed, flattened from above, 
Descending axis.—Jesson 27, 
