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INDEX AND DICTIONARY 



Bipinnatifid ; twice pinnatifid. 



Bitemate : twice divided into threes 



Bladdery : thin and inflated. 



Blade of a leaf, 43 ; of a petal, 64. 



Border of a corolla, &c., 72. 



Bracts and Bractlets, 59. 



Branches, 24. 



Breathing-pores of leaves, 264, 265. 



Bristles : stiflf and strong hairs. 



Bristly : beset with bristles. 



Budding, 56. 



Buds, 24, 38. 



Bulblets, 41, 57. 



Bulbous : like a bulb in shape. 



Bulbs, 31, 40, 57. 



Caducous : dropping off very early, as the calyx 



of Poppies and Bloodroot. 

 Calyx, 7, 63. 



Campanulate : bell-shaped, 72. 

 Capillary : slender and as fine as hair. 

 Capitate : headed ; bearing a round, head-like 



top ; or collected in a head, as the flowers 



of Button-bush, 61. 

 Capsule : a pod, 80. 



Cartilagineous or Cartilaginous : like cartilage. 

 Caryopsis : a grain or seed-like fruit, 79. 

 Catkin : a scale-like spike, as of Birch, &c., 61. 

 Caulescent : having u stem which rises out of the 



ground. 

 Cells, in vegetable anatomy, 89. 

 Cells of the ovary or fruit, 8, 74. 

 Cellular Tissue, 41 . 

 Cereal : relating to com or corn-plants, held by 



the ancients to be the gift of Ceres. 

 Chaff: thin bracts, in the form of scales or 



husks. 

 Ciliate : fringed with hairs along the margin, 



like the eyelashes fringing the eyelids. 

 Circulation in plants, 86, 88. 

 Class, 94. 

 Classification, 93. 

 Claw, of a petal, &c., 64. 

 Cleft : cut about half-way down, 49, 50. 

 Climbing, 37. 



Club-shaped ; thickened gradually upwards. 

 Clustered : collected in a bunch. 

 Clustered Boots, 36. 

 Coated Bulbs, 40. 

 Coherent, calyx or ovary, 75. 

 Column : the united filaments of monadelphous 



Btameni, as of the Mallow (Fig. 31 7 J, or 



the stamens and style united, a« In the Or- 

 chis Family. 

 Complete Flower, 67. 

 Compound Corymb, Cyme, &c., 63. 



" Leaves, 44, 51. 



" Ovary, 73. 



Pistil, 73. 

 Compressed : flattened on two sides. 

 Cone, as of the Pine, 82. 

 Confluent : when two parts or bodies are blended 



together. 

 Conical Root, 36. 



Connate : grown together from the first. 

 Connective, of the anther, 66. 

 Convolute, leaf, &c. : rolled up. 

 Convolute, in the flower-bud, 183, 187. 

 Cordate : heart-shaped, 48. 

 Coriaceous : of a leathery texture. 

 Corm, or Solid Bulb, 40, 57. 

 Corolla, 7, 63. 

 Corymb, 60. 

 Corymbose, or Corymbed : in corymbs, or like 



a corymb. 

 Cotyledons : seed-leaves, 9, 84. 

 Creeping, 57. 



Crenate : the margin scalloped, 49. 

 Cruciform : cross-shaped, as the corolla of the 



Cruciferous Family, 124. 

 Crude Sap, 86. 



Crustaceous : of a hard and brittle texture. 

 Cryptogamous, Cryptogamous Plants, 58, 97. 

 Culm : a straw-stem, 37. 

 Cuneate : wedge-shaped, 47. 

 Cupule ; the acorn-cup, and the like, 79. 

 Cuspidate : tipped with a sharp rigid point, 49. 

 Cut : said of leaves, &c., which appear as if cut 



or slit from the margin inwards, 49, 50. 

 Cuttings, 56. 

 Cyme, 62. 

 Cymose : in cymes, or like a cyme. 



Deciduous : falling off, as petals generally do 

 after blossoming, or leaves in autumn. 



Declined : turned to one side, or to the lower 

 side, 37. 



Decompound : several times compound, 52. 



Decumbent : reclined on the ground, 37. 



Decurrent : said of leaves continued downwards 

 on the stem, like a wing, as in Thistles. 



Definite : uniform and rather few in number 



Dehiscence : the regular opening of pods. 



Dehiscent Fruits, 79. 



