INDEX TO PART I. 
AND 
DICTIONARY OF THE BOTANICAL TERMS 
USED IN THIS BOOK. 
*** The numbers refer to the page where the term is explained or illustrated. 
Abortive: imperfectly formed. 
Abortive Flowers, 69. 
Abruptly pinnate, 52. 
Absorbing, 85. 
Accessory Fruits, 81. 
Achlamydeous Flower: without calyx or co¬ 
rolla, 68. 
Acorn, 79. 
Acrogens, 98. 
^Aculeate: bearing prickles. 
Acuminate: taper-pointed, 48. 
Acute: ending in a point, 48. 
Adherent: naturally united to. ^ 
Adnate: naturally grown fast to. 
Aerial Roots and Rootlets, 34, 35. 
Aggregated Fruits, 81. 
Air-Plants, 35. 
Akene: a seed-like fruit, 78. 
Albumen, of the seed, 14, 83. 
Albuminous: having albumen. 
Alternate (leaves or branches), 25, 54. 
“ in the parts of the flower, 70. 
Ament: a catkin, 61. 
Angiospermous, 76. 97. 
Animal Kingdom, 2. 
Annual: living only one year or season. 
Annuals, 27. 
Anther, 7, 64. 
Antherifcrous : bearing an anther. 
Apetalous: without petals, 67. 
Apple-Fruit, 77. 
Appressed: close pressed together, or pressed 
against another body. 
Aquatic: growing in water. 
Arboreous or Arborescent: tree-like or relating 
to a tree, 37. 
Aril: an additional covering of a seed, 83. 
Aristate: same as awned, 49. 
Arrow-shaped, or Arrow-headed, 48. 
Artificial System of Classification, 96. 
Ascending: rising gradually upwards, 37. 
Assimilation, 87. 
Auricled or Auriculate: bearing ears (auricles), 
or small appendages, 48. 
Awl-shaped: very narrow and pointed, 53. 
Awned, Awn-pointed, 49. 
Axil: the angle betAveen a leaf and the stem on 
the upper side, 24. 
Axillary : situated in an axil. 
Axillary Buds, 24. 
“ Flowers, 59. 
Axis: the trunk or stem, or a line through the 
centre of any organ, 6. 
Baccate: berry-like (from Bacca, a berry). 
Bark, 42. 
Base: that end of any body by which it is at¬ 
tached to its support. 
Beak: a long and narrow tip to a fruit, &c. 
Bearded: beset or fringed with strong hairs or 
beard. 
Bell-shaped, 72. 
Berry: a pulpy simple fruit, 77. 
Biennial: living only tAVO years. 
Biennials, 27. 
Bifid: tAvo-cleft or split. 
Bilabiate: same as tAvo-lipped, 72, 178. 
Bipinnate: same as tAvice pinnate, 52. 
