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INDEX 



All numbers refer to pages, heavy type indicating illustrations. 



Drawing-paper, 224 



Drawers, 263, 268 



Drugs, 163; poisonous, 176 



Drupaceous, fruit, 365; nut, 376 



Drupe, 364 



Dry, cooperage, 243; fruits, 351; 



pericarp, 351, 355 

 Drying oils, 205 

 Duck, 230 

 Dugout canoo, 247 

 Dust-spore, 496, 49S, 505, 511 

 Dust-spore-case, 496 

 Dyeing, 222 



Dyers' Indigo Shrub, 292, 293 

 Dycstuffs, 290 



Early attempts at classifying, 306; 

 at describing, 312 



Ear of grain, 1 1 



Earth-vegetables, 35, 41 



Ebenales, Ebony Order 



Ebony Order, 401 



Ebracteate inflorescence, 302 



Ecological botanj', 10 



Economic, botany, 9, 304; impor- 

 tance of fungi, 504; properties 

 of plants, 575 



Economics of co-operation, 46S 



Egg-apparatus, 556 



Egg-cell, 514, 521, 551, 552, 555, 

 557, 560 



Egg-plant, 85, 121, 124, 382 



Egg sac meml^ers, 352 



Egg-sacs, 325, 326 



Egg-spore Algce, Evolution of, 558 



Elastic, bands, 284; gums, 222, 

 280, 287; springs for dissemina- 

 tion, 560; webbing, 28:-! 



Elater, 517, 520, .526, 541, 543 



Elder, 19G, 197, 202, 208 



Electric apparatus, 288 



Elettaria cardcwwmwm, Canla- 

 moms 



Elm, 259; American, 259; bark, 

 163; English, 166; wood, 256, 

 259 



Elm Family: 398; American elm, 

 259; English elm, 167 



Elm-leaved Linden, 264 



Embryo, 29, 48, 316, 317, 318, 351 , 

 352, 514, 553, 556; bent, 36:i; 

 curved, 362; ilicotyledonous. 



386; monocotyledonous, 388; 



uncoiled, 355; of fern, 538 

 Embryo, parts of; cotyledon, 46, 



48; plumule, 48; radicle, 48; 



scutellum, 388; seed-bud, 48; 



seed-leaf, 46, 48; seed-root, 48 

 Embryos, 547 

 Embryo-sue, 551, 556 

 Endogenous stems, 387 

 Endosperm, 551 

 Endospore, 478 

 Energy, in food, 114; measures of, 



115; of vegetable foods, 116 

 Engler and Prantl's classification, 



394 

 English, elm, 165, 167; oak, 258; 



walnut, 261, 296 

 Environment, 431 

 Enzyme, 32, 494 



Epidermis, 254, 530, .538, 540, 542 

 Epicalyx, 364 

 E])igynous flower, 365 

 EpiiAjde, 508 

 Eqiiisetaccw, Scouring-rush Fam- 



Equisetifia; ScoiU'ing-rushes 



Equisetum aruetine, Scouring-rush 



Erasers, 284 



Erect Silky Clematis, 328-336, 

 337, 338-356 



Ericacea, Heath Familj' 



Eriades, Heath Order 



Enjsihc communis, Powdery-mil- 

 dew 



Erylhro.rylncea', Coca Family 



Erylhroxylon Coca, Coca 



Essence of life, 568, 569 



Essences, 128, 146 



Essential organs of flower, IH, 43, 

 319 



Ethers, 159 



Eiiphorbincca', Spurge I'amily 



Euphorbia Latlii/rix, Caper Sjnuge 

 marginata, Snow-on-the-moun- 

 tiain 



European, beech, 268; grape, 88, 

 93, 121, 124; larch, 271; rasp- 

 berry, 91 



E\'ening-iirimrose, 457 



l'A-cning-|irimrose Family, 400 



4]\'olution, 433; by choice, 461, 

 404; in general, 4(i4; of clematis. 



