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INDEX AND DICTIONARY 
Bipinnatifid: twice pinnatifid. 
Biternate: 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 : stiff 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 a 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 corn or com-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 Roots, 36. 
Coated Bulbs, 40. 
Coherent, calyx or ovary, 75. 
Column: the united filaments of monadelphous 
stamens, as of the Mallow (Fig. 317), or 
the stamens and style united, as 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. 
