INDEX 
Blotch of Apples, 404. 
Blueberries, 489. 
Blue-green Algae, described, 297; re- 
production, 300. 
Blue Mold, 375; described, 376. 
Boletus, 387*. 
Boneset, 493. 
Bordeaux mixture, 359. 
Bordered pits, 130, 131* 
Botany, definition, 1; derivation, 1. 
Botrychium Virginianum, 484*; de- 
seribed, 435. 
Botrydium, 317, 317*. 
Brace roots, 139. 
Bracket Fungi, 388, 389*, 390*. 
Bract, 17, 19*. 
Bracted Plantain, seeds, 75*. 
Bracts of Grass flowers, 17, 19*, 21*, 
22%. 
Branching, of roots, 150; of stems, 
167. 
Brand spores, 394, 394*. 
Brassica nigra, 483*. 
Brassica Sinapistrum, 74. 
Bread Mold, 360, 362*, 363". 
Bread Yeast, 377, 377*. 
Bromelin, 284. 
Brown Algae, 296; described, 318. 
Brown Rot, 368. 
Bryales, 417, 418*. 
Bryophytes, 292; 
groups, 405. 
Buckwheat family, 478; flowers, 479". 
Buckwheat, flower, 133, 11*; type of 
seeds, 59; fruit, 60*; plants, 158*. 
Bud, described, 167, 204*, 205*; rest- 
ing, 204, 204*; opening, 205; 
terminal, 206, 206*; lateral, 206, 
206*; contents, 207, 213*; axil- 
lary, 206, 206*; accessory, 206, 
206*; adventitious, 206, 206%, 
207*; formation, 208; flower, 
207, 210*; leaf, 207, 210*; mixed, 
207, 210*; active, 211; dormant, 
211. 
Budding, 225; described, 231, 232*; 
of Yeast, 377, 377*. 
Bulb, 179; described, 181, 181*. 
described, 405; 
569 
Bundle sheath, 252. 
Bunt or Stinking Smut, 393, 395. 
Burdock, 493; fruits, 86*. 
Buttercup family, 481. 
Butternut, 474. 
Button stage of Mushroom, 3865, 
385*. 
Caffein, 283. 
Calcium, 157, 158*. 
Callus, 224, 225* 
Calyx, 11, 10*, 11*, 12*. 
Cambium, 126, 126*, 149*, 194*, 195*, 
196*, 198*. 
Cambium ring, 148. 
Camphor trees, 482*. 
Campylotropous ovules, 463. 
Canada Thistle, 82, 165, 494, 503, 
494*. 
Capillitium, 337, 337* 
Capillary water, 153. 
Carbonic acid, 161. 
Carbohydrates, 277. 
sugars, 277. 
starches, 278, 278*. 
hemi-cellulose, 278, 279*. 
Carica papaya, 284. 
Cariopsis, 62. 
Carnations, 10. 
Carnivorous plants, 273, 272*, 273*. 
Carotin, 284. 
Carpels, 15, 14*- 
Carpogonium, 327, 326*, 328*. 
Carpospore, 327, 326*, 328*. 
Caruncle, 57, 57*. 
Caryophyllaceae, 480. 
Castor Bean, seed, 57; seedling, 108; 
use, 486. 
Castor oil, 279. 
Catabolic metabolism, 275. 
Catkin, 30, 473, 29*, 473* 
Cat-tail family, 495; flowers, 495, 
495*, 496*. 
Causes of variations, 531. 
Cedar Apples, 401, 401*, 402*, 403*. 
Cedar Rust, 401, 400*. 
Cells, 39, 96; position in plant life, 
112; discovery, 112; structures, 
