B. 
Baccate, berried, fleshy. 
Barred, crossed by a paler colour in spaces resem- 
bling bars. 
Basilar, situated at the base of any thing, usually 
applied to the embryo when situated at the bot- 
tom of the seed. 
Beak, any thing which resembles the beak of a 
bird, hard, sharp points; in Aconitum the point 
which ends the helmet or upper sepal. 
Beaked, having a beak. 
Bearded, having long hair like a beard. 
Beardless, destitute of a beard. 
Berry, a fleshy fruit, containing many seeds, as the 
gooseberry and grape. 
Biauriculate, having two auricles. 
Bibracteolate, furnished with two small bracteas; 
which see. 
Bibracteate, furnished with two bracteas. See 
Bracteas. 
Bicallose, \ having two small callosities or protu- 
Bicallous, berances. 
Bicrenate, twice crenate. See Crenate. 
Bicuspidate, having two points. 
Bidentate, having two teeth. 
Biennial, a plant is biennial, which requires two 
years to bear its fruit, and then dies. 
Bifarious, any thing placed in two opposite rows. 
Bifariously-imbricated, any thing placed in two op- 
posite rows, as well as being laid over each other, 
like the tiles of a house. 
Bifid, divided at the top in two parts, two cleft. 
Bifidly-umbelliferous, having an umbel of flowers 
divided into two parts or divisions. 
Bifoliate, having two leaves or leaflets. 
Bifoveolate, having two hollows. 
Bifurcation, the division of a stem when it is 
divided like a fork into two branches. 
Bifurcate, twice forked, or having two forks. 
Bigeminate, twin, each division bearing a pair of 
leaflets. 
Bigibbous, 
Bigibbose, 
Biglandular, having two glands. 
Biglobose, formed into two round heads. 
Bilabiate, having two lips. 
Bilamellate, \ having two plates or divided into two 
Bilammellate, parts. 
Biligulate, having two ligule, or strap-shaped ap- 
pendages, 
Bilocular, containing two cells, or divided into two 
cells, or departments. 
Bimaculate, having two spots of any colour. 
Binate, having two leaflets, twin. 
Biovulate, containing two ova, or young seeds ; seeds 
before they are mature are called ova. 
Bipartite, divided into two parts. 
Bipinnate, twice pinnate. See Pinnate. 
Bipinnate-parted, divided in a bipinnate manner 
but not to the base. 
Bipinnatifid, twice pinnatifid. See Pinnatifid. 
Biplicate, having two plaits. 
Birimose, having two longitudinal chinks, or fissures. 
Bisaccate, having two little sacks, bags, or pouches. 
Biscutate, resembling two bucklers. 
Biserrate, twice cut, like the teeth of a 
Biserrate-toothed, saw. 
Bistipulate, furnished with two stipulas. See Sti- 
pulas. 
Bisulcate, having two furrows. 
Biternate, twice ternate. See Ternate. 
Bivalved, two valved. See Valved. 
Blanching, made white by being grown in a dark 
place, or by being covered with any thing. 
Bland, fair, beautiful. 
Blight, a vague term, signifying a pestilence among 
plants, caused by the attack of insects, or of para- 
Sitical fungi. 
Blistered, having the surface raised, as the skin is 
when blistered. 
Brachiate, having arms or branches, usually placed 
} having two protuberances. 
GLOSSARY. 
opposite to each other nearly at right angles with 
the main stem, and crossing each other alter- 
nately. 
Bracteate, having bracteas. 
Bracteolate, having small bracteas. 
Bracteoles, small bracteas. 
Bracteas, small leaves placed near the calyx on the 
peduncle or pedicel. 
Bractless, destitute of bracteas. 
Branchlets, small branches. 
Bristles, stiff hairs. 
Bristly, covered with stiff hairs. 
Bristly-toothed, having teeth like bristles, or with 
the teeth ending each in a bristle. 
Bud, the flower or leaves before expansion are said 
to be in the bud. 
Bulbiferous, bearing bulbs. 
Bulbs, underground buds, resembling roots, con- 
sisting of numerous fleshy scales, placed one over 
the other. 
Burry, covered with hooked stiff hairs, like the 
heads of the burdock. 
C. 
Caducous, falling off soon. 
Cesious, grey. 
Cespitose, growing in little tufts. 
Calcarate, spurred, or having a spur. 
Calceiform, formed like a little shoe. 
Calli, small callosities, or little protuberances. 
Callose, callous, hardened. 
Callously-glandular, having hardened glands. 
Callously-serrated, having hardened serratures. 
Calyciform, formed like a calyx. 
Calycine, of or belonging to the calyx. 
Calyculate, having bracteas so placed as to re~ 
Calyculated semble an external or additional 
yeurated, calyx. 
Calyptra, literally an extinguisher, applied to the 
body which covers the theca in mosses; any 
thing in the shape of an extinguisher. 
Calyptrate, resembling an extinguisher. 
Calyptriform, shaped like an extinguisher. 
Calyx, the outer envelope of a flower, as the corolla 
is the inner. 
Campanulate, shaped like a bell. 
Canaliculate, channelled or furrowed. 
Cancellate, latticed, resembling lattice-work. 
Canescent, hoary, approaching to white. 
Capillary, very slender, resembling a hair. 
Capillaceous, very slender, resembling a hair. 
Capillaceously-multifid, \ divided into many slender 
Capillary-multifid, hair-like segments. 
Capitate, growing in a head; a stigma is said to be 
capitate when it is large, round, and blunt. 
Capitately-glomerate, growing in a clustered head. 
Capitellate, ) growing in small heads; a stigma is 
Capitular, said to be so when it is small, round, 
Capitulate, and blunt. 
Capituli, small heads. 
Capsule, a dry fruit. 
Capsular, like a capsule. 
Carbonizxed, burned to coal. 
Carina, a keel like that of a boat; also the lower 
petal of a pea-flower. 
Carinate, keel-shaped. 
Carinately-winged, having a wing resembling a 
keel. 
Carinately-concave, hollowed in such a manner as to 
resemble a keel externally. 
Cariopsis,or Cariopsides, a 1-celled, small, indehiscent 
pericarp, adhering to the seed which it contains, 
as the grain of grasses and clematis. 
Carminative, medicines which promote perspiration. 
Carnose, fleshy, thick substance. 
Carpel, the small parts of which compound fruits 
Carpels, \ are formed, as those of Rantnculus, 
Carpella, Pæònia, and Aconitum. 
Carpelled, having carpels. 
Carpology, the science which treats of the structure 
of fruits and seeds. 
X1il 
Cartilaginous, gristly. 
Cartilaginously-toothed, having gristly teeth. 
Cartilaginously-serrated, having gristly serratures. 
Caruncle, a small protuberance. 
Carunculate, having a caruncle. 
Cataplasm, a plaster. 
Catarrhal, of or belonging to a cold. 
Cathartic, purgative. 
Catkin, inflorescence of the natural order Amenta- 
ce@, as the willow. 
Caudate, tailed, having a process like a tail. 
Caudex, the trunk or stem of palms and ferns. 
Caudicula, a small membranous process, on which 
the pollen of orchideous plants are fixed. 
Caulescent, acquiring a stem, having a kind of stem. 
Caulicule, the little stem in the embryo which 
unites the cotyledons with the radicle. 
Cauline, of or belonging to the stem. 
Caustic, having a burning quality. 
Cautery, that which burns. 
Cellular, composed of cells. 
Cell, the hollow part of a eapsule, in which the 
seeds are lodged, and the part of anthers which 
contains the pollen. 
Celled, having cells, 1-2-3 or 4-celled, having 1-2-3- 
or 4 cells or departments, and so forth. 
the column in the centre of fruits 
to which the seeds are some- 
times attached, and sometimes 
the partitions. 
Central-placenta, the column in the centre of fruits 
to which the seeds are attached. 
Cephalic, medicinal to the head. 
Ceraceous, wax-like. 
Cernuous, nodding, drooping, or pendulous. 
Chaffy, bearing processes resembling chaff. 
Chalaxa, a spot on the seed, indicating where the 
vessels of the raphe terminate. 
Channel-leaved, folded together, so as to resemble a 
channel for conducting water. 
Channelled, having a channel or channels. 
Charred, blackened by fire. 
Chlorosis, the green sickness, a disease so called. 
Chinks, longitudinal fissures. 
Chinked, having longitudinal fissures. 
Chrysalis-like, like the chrysalis of an insect. 
Ciliæ, hairs like those of the eye-lash. 
Ciliated, \ surrounded by hairs like those of the 
Ciliary, eye-lash. 
Ciliately-toothed, having teeth like the hairs of the 
eye-lash. 
Ciliary-scabrous, having rough ciliated margins. 
Ciliary-serrated, 
Ciliately-serrated, 
Ciliately-jagged, having unequal notches like ciliz. 
Ciliately-plumose, having long hairs on the edges 
like the feathers of a quill. 
Cinereous, ash-coloured, or coloured like ashes, grey. 
Cinereously-canescent, between white and ash-co- 
loured. 
Cinereously-glaucous, between sea-green and ash- 
coloured. 
Cinereously-pubescent, covered with grey pubescence. 
Cinereously-tomentose, covered with grey tomentum. 
Cinereously-villous, covered with grey villi. 
Cingalese, inhabitants of or belonging to Ceylon. 
Circinate, \ curled round like a sharp crook, to 
Circinuate, ¥ make a circle. 
Circinal, resembling a circle. 
Circinately-revolute, curled round like a circle. 
Circinately-trochleate, curled round like a pully. 
Cirrhose, tenn having tendrils or claspers, 
Cirrhous, as the pea. 
Cirrhiferous, bearing tendrils or claspers. 
Clammy, viscid, sticky. 
Clathrate, latticed, divided like lattice-work. 
Clavate, \ club-shaped, shaped like a club, the thick 
Clavated, end uppermost. 
Clavellose, having club-shaped processes. 
Clavus, a name for the ergot, a disease in corn. 
Claws, the unguis of petals, the narrow end. 
Clawed, having claws. 
Central-angle, 
Central-axis, 
Central-column, 
\ having serratures like ciliz. 
