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GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 



Brake or Bracken. Vide 



Pteridium. 

 Bryophytes fGr. jSpuov, moss, and 



^vToVf plant), 57. 

 Buds, borne on ferns, 27. 

 BuIbletSj borne on ferns, 27. 



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Calamariacese, 63. 



Camptosorus, 108; also 3,6, 9, j6, 

 27, 81. 



Campyloneuron, 83; also 13, 79. 



Carboniferous Age, Pterido- 

 phytes of, 62. 



Carinate (Lat. carina, a keel), 

 keeled. 



Castaneous (Lat. castanea, a 

 chestnut), chestnut-colored. 



Caudate (Lat. cattda, a tail), fur- 

 nished with a slender appendage re- 

 sembling a tail. 



Caudex (Lat. a stem), the upright 

 rootslock forming the trunk of a tree- 

 fern, 8. 



Cellulose (Lat. celiula, a little cell), 

 the substance composing the wall of 

 ceDs, containing the elements car- 

 bon, hydrogen, and oxygen. 



CeraceouS (Lat. cera, wax), hav- 

 ing the nature of wax. 



Ceratopteridacese, 78. 



Ceratopteris, 78; also 6, 14. 



Characeee, 51.— Literature of, 56. 



Chartaoeous (Lat. charta, a leaf 

 of paper), having the texture of paper 

 or parchment. 



Cheilanthes, 91; also 3, 6, 8, 13, 

 26, 43, 80. 



Cfieiroglossa, 68; also 66. 



Chlorophyll (Gr. x^™?"'. green, 

 and tf)v'AAo»', leaf), the green grains 

 forming the coloring matter of plants. 



Christmas-fern. Vide Poly- 

 stichum. 



Ciliate (Lat. cilium, an eyelash), 

 having on the margin a fringe of 

 hairs resembling the fringing eye- 

 lashes. 



Cinnamon-fern. Vide Os- 

 munda. 



Circinate (Lat. circinus, a pair of 

 compasses), rolled inward from the 

 apex, 8. 



Classification of the Vegetable 

 Kingdom, 55. — Principle of, 46. 



Cliff-brake. Vide Pellsea. 



Climbing-fern. Vide Lygo- 

 dium. 



Cloak-fern. Vide Notho- 

 laena. 



Club-moss. Vide Lycopo- 

 dium. 



Confluent (Lat. con, together, and 

 fluere, 10 flow), blended together. 



Connate (Lat. con, together, and 

 nasci, to be born), united together 

 from the first. 



Cordate (Lat. cor, the heart), heart- 

 shaped. 



Coriaceous (Lat. corixm, a hide), 

 leathery. 



Cotton-fern. Vide Notho- 

 Isena. 



Crenate (Lat. crena,& notch), hav- 

 ing the margin scalloped with rounded 

 teeth. 



Crenulate (Lat. crenula, a little 

 notch;, scalloped with small rounded 

 teeth. 



Cryptogamia (Gr. Kpuirrds, hid- 

 den, yafios, marriage), fiowerless 

 plants; an obsolete term. 



Cryptogramma, 97; also 2, 14, 80. 



Cultivation, Literature of, 7. 



Cuneate (Lat. cutteits, a wedge), 

 wedge-shaped. 



Cystopteris. Vide Filix. 



Decurrent (Lat. de, down, and 



currere, to run), prolonged on the 



rachis. 

 Deer-fern. Vide Struthlop- 



teris. 

 Deltoid (Gr. SAra, the letter D, and 



eiSos. form), triangular, like the Greek 



delta. 

 Dennstsedtia, 122; also 3, 5, 7, 17, 



80. 



