INDEX AND GLOSSAEY. 



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Ascending; rising upwards in a 

 , slanting direction; applied 

 , chiefly to weak stems. 

 Ascending axis: the stem of a plant. 

 Asci, 81)3. 

 Ascidium: a pitcher-shaped leaf, 



Pig. 169. 

 Ascospore, 353. 

 Ash of plants, 307. 

 Assimilation, 276, 309. 

 Itnricnlate :'same as auricled, hav- 

 ' iug rounded lobes at the base; 



applied mostly to leaves. 

 J.wl-3haped, Fig. 147. 

 .Iwn : a bristle, such as is found 



on the glumes of many Grasses, 



Barley for example, 108. 

 Axil, 3. 



Axile : relating to the axis, 221. 

 Axillary : proceeding from an axil, 



44, 1.S8. 

 Axillary buds, 133. 

 Axillary flowers, 186. 

 ilxis : the stem and root, 131. 



Baccate : like a berry. 



Bark, 286. 



Bases of leaves, 179. 



Basidinm, 347. 



Bast, 286. 



Bearded : furnished with hairs, like 

 the petals at some Violets, &o. 



Be'.l-shaped, 208. 



Bejry, 233. 



Biennial: a plant which grows 

 fi'om seed in one season, but 

 produces its seed and dies in the 

 following season, 133, 136. - 



Bifoliolate : having two leaflets. 



Bilabiate : two-lipped. Fig. 180. 



BUocular, 319. 



Bipinnate ; twice pinnate. Fig. 167. 



Bipinnati.J3 : twice pinnatifid,176. 



Blade : tho bccad ptai of a leaf or 

 petal, 4, 43. 



Bleeding of pUpts, i)15. 



Bordered pits, iii»3. 



Botryose, 143. 



Botryose infloreiiici-.ce, 185, 189. 



Bracts, 19, 44, 194. 



Bracteate : subtencje^ by a bract. 



Bractlets : secondary oracts grow- ! 

 ing on pedicels, 194. 



Branches, 3, 182, 141. 

 Branching, Modes of, 141. 

 Breathing-pores (stomates), 293, 



813. 

 Bristles, 227.( 

 Bryophytes, 346. 

 Bud: an undeveloped stem oi 



branch, 137. 

 Buds on roots, 131, 139. 

 Bulb, 82, 94, l.')2. 

 Bulbiferous : producing bulbs. 

 Eulblets, 155. 



Bulbous : like a bulb in shape. 

 Bundles, 296. 



Caducous, 206. 



Calcium, 307. 



Calcium carbonate, 278. 



Calcium oxalate, 278, 



Calyptra, 341. 



Calyx, 5, 13, 205. 



Calyx-teeth, 206. 



Calyx-tube, 206. 



Cambium layer, 297. 



Campanulate, 208. 



Campylotropous, 246. 



Capillary : fide and hair-like. 



Capitulum : same as head, 189. 



Capsule, 239, 341. 



Carbon, 307. 



Carbon dioxide, 307. 



Carbonic acid, 307. 



Carina, or keel : the two coherent . 



petals in the front of a flower of 



the Pea kind. Fig. 36. 

 Carnivorous plants, 311. 

 Carpel 7. 

 Carpellary: relating to a carpel, 



e.g^f a ca/rpellary leaf, &c. 

 Carpogonium, 354. 

 Cartilaginous: tough. 

 Caryopsis, 102, 241. 

 Catkin, 71, 74, 123, 189. 

 Caulescent : with an evident stem. 

 Caulicle: another name for the 



radicle, 79, 252. 

 Cauline : relating to the stem, e.g., 



cauline leaves, &c., 4, 13, 28. 

 Cell-contents, 260, 274. 

 Cell-division, 282. 

 C^U-formation, 282. 

 Cells, 259. 

 Cellulose. 265. 



