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INDEX 



Discovery — Contintiea 



white clover by Guiditius, 187 



wood anemone, 186 

 Diseases of trees, Theophrastus on, 



134 

 Dispensatory, medical, earliest, 270, 



271 

 Distinction between like and unlike, 



fundamental in science, 21 

 Distinction, earliest, of anatropous 



and orthotropous, 96 

 of angiosperm and gymnosperm, 



94> 141 

 of annual and biennial, 141 

 anther and filament, 234 

 apetalous and petaliferous, 85 

 aquatic and littoral, 127 

 biologic and phytographic, 66 

 choripetalous and sympetalous, 



89, 90 

 compound leaf and simple, 90 

 corymb and umbel, 283 

 dead nettle and true nettle, 244 

 equally pinnate and unequally, 



282 

 flower bud and leaf bud, 159 

 flowering and flowerless, 141 

 Galeopsis and Urtica, 181 

 gemma and germen, 159 

 herbaceous and suffrutescent, 109 

 hypogynous and perigynous, 91 

 leaf and cladoale, 79 

 leaves sessile and petiolate, 78 

 modes of tree growth, 129 

 monocotyle and dicotyle, 96 

 parenchyma and prosenchyma, 99 

 rhizome and root, 45 

 roots, subterranean and aerial, 



74 

 spores and seeds, 293 

 stamen and pistil, 234 

 variety and species, 146, 147, 311 

 Distinctions, earliest, in estivation, 



288, 289 

 in anatomy of trees, 97, 100 

 in circumnutation, 309 

 of color in roots, 76 

 of configuration in leaves, 79 

 in dehiscence, 278, 293 

 of duration in leaves, 67 

 of flavor in roots, 76 

 in floral insertion, 91 

 of herb, shrub, and tree, 67 

 in inflorescence, 92, 282 

 of margin in leaves, 79 

 morphology in roots, 75 

 morphology in stem, 77 

 permanency in organs, 64 

 placentation, 292 

 posture in stems, 77 

 praefloration, 288, 289 

 of root, stem, branch, 61 

 structure in stems, 112 



surface in leaves, 82 

 texture in roots, 75 

 texture in stems, 67 

 tissue in plants, 9 7 

 venation in leaves, 1 1 1 

 Dodonseus, Rembert, on Dioscorides, 



IS3 



on genus Trifolium, 31 

 Dolichos, Greek for Phaseolus, 121 

 Donax, Greek for Arundo, iii 



name of slave of Theophrastus, 



57 

 Dorsten, botanical author, 39 

 Draba vema, earliest account of, 



187 



Drosera, figured as new, 304, 309 



described first by Cordus, 309 



named at first Rorella, 309 



physiology of, by Cordus, 310 



Drosion, same as Alchemilla, 304 



Ebulus and Sambucus, 240 

 Echinops, Cordus on, 283 

 Echium, genus, 154, 183 

 Ecologic groupings, by Theophrastus, 



127 

 by Tragus, 256-259 

 Ecology of V. Cordus, 310 

 Elder flowers, Theophrastus on, 90 

 Elecampane, leaf type, 224 

 Embryology, early notes on, 95-99 

 Environment, Theophrastus on, 127,. 



132, 138 

 Epigynous insertion first noted, 91 

 Eranthemon, old name of genus 



Adonis, 213 

 Erasmus and E. Cordus, 263, 264 

 Eresus, birthplace of Theophrastus, 



54 

 Erinus, Cordus on, 303 

 Eryngium, genus, 113 

 Erythrea, genus, 124 

 Eucalyptus, metamorphosis of, 138 

 Eudemus of Chios, rhizotomus, 49 

 Eupatorium, Cordus on, 306 

 Euphorbia, Cordus on, 306 



antiquorum, 306 

 Excurrent growth of trees, 129 



Faba, genus, 295 



Faba suilla, old name of henbane 



Fabius Columna, writer, on Dioscori- 

 des, 153 



Fabled abiogenesis, of mural herbs, 

 237-238 

 of maples, poplars, willows, 236-237 

 change of barley to wheat, 137 

 change of cabbage to turnip, 261 

 change of flax to darnel, 136 

 change of turnip to mustard, 261. 

 change of wheat to chess, 135 



