azonal 



Band 



azo'nal (a, not, fwci?, girdle), C. Mac- 

 millan's term for Plant-associations 

 which show no well-marked radial 

 symmetry ; Azote' (fwrj, life), La- 

 voisier's name for nitrogen, still 

 used in French works ; azo'tised, 

 compounded with nitrogen. 



Az'ure azu'reus (late Lat., sky-blue), 

 blue as the sky. 



Azy'gosperm, (a, not, vyos, a yoke, 

 (rwep/j.a, seed), a synonym of Azy'- 

 gospore (a-rropa, seed), the growth 

 of a gamete direct without con- 

 jugation, a parthenogenetic spore ; 

 az'ygous, unpaired, as a leaflet 

 which is not matched on the oppo- 

 site side of the rhachis. 



Bac'ca (Lat.), a berry, a succulent 

 fruit with seeds immersed in the 

 pulp, as the Gooseberry ; ~ cor- 

 tica'ta, berry with a rind, the term 

 has been applied to the ovary ; 

 sicc'a.t succulent while unripe, dry 

 when mature ; ~ spu'ria,J any 

 fleshy fruit which is not a true 

 berry, as raspberry and strawberry; 

 bac'cate, bacca'tus, berried; "se- 

 mina baccata," seeds having a 

 pulpy skin, as in Cycas ; Baccau- 

 lar'is, Baccaular'ius, (deriv. ?), 

 Desvaux's name for CARCEBULE ; 

 Baccau'sus = ETAEKIO ; Bacce'tum, 

 Dumortier's term for SYNCABP ; 

 baccif'erous, bac'cifer, (/ero, I 

 bear), berry-bearing, the fruit a 

 berry, usually applied when the 

 normal fruit of the genus is 

 otherwise ; bac'ciform, bacciform'is 

 (forma, shape), like a berry in 

 shape. 



Bacill'us, pi. Bacill'i (bacillum, a 

 staff), (1) J young bulb; (2) the 

 frustulea of certain Diatomaceae, 

 as Bacillaria; (3) rod-shaped Bac- 

 teria ; baclllar, bacilla'rifs, bacil'li- 

 form, (forma, shape), rod- or club- 

 shaped. 



Back, that side which is turned from 

 the part or substratum to which 

 an organ is attached ; the dorsal 

 surface. 



Bacterium, pi. Bacte'ria (fiaKTripiov, a 



small staff), (John's name for low 

 forms of organic life, multiplying 

 by fission, Schizomycetes ; bac'- 

 teroid (eu>os, resemblance), re- 

 sembling bacteria ; -~ Tissue, ap- 

 plied to the root-tubercles of 

 various plants ; Bac'teroids or Bac- 

 ter'ioids, organisms found in nitri- 

 fying tubercles on the roots of 

 plants, especially Leguminosae, at- 

 tributed to the action of bacteria ; 

 Bacteriol'ogy (\6yos, discourse), the 

 science of the life history of bac- 

 teria ; Bacte'rio - pur'purin, the 

 purple colouring matter of some 

 bacteria ; Bacterio'sis, disease due 

 to the attack of bacteria, 

 baculif erous (baculum, a staff ; /ero, 

 I bear), bearing canes or reeds ; 

 baculif orm, baculif orm' is (forma, 

 shape), stick-shaped, rod-like, as 

 the ascospores of certain Lichens, 

 bad'ious, bad'ius (Lat.), dark reddish- 

 brown ; chestnut-brown. 

 Balus'tra, " sometimes applied to 

 fruits like the pomegranate" 

 (Crozier). 



Balaus'ta (/SaXaiWtoc, pomegranate 

 flower), the fruit of Punica Grana- 

 tum, Linn., with firm rind, berried 

 within, crowned with the lobes of 

 an adnate calyx, 

 bald, destitute of pubescence or downy 



appendages. 

 Bale J (Fr. Bale), cited by S. F. Gray 



for the outer glume of grasses. 

 Balling, in nuclear development, the 



fusion of nuclei into one nucleus. 

 Balm (pd.Xffa.fj.oi', balsam), pr. Bahm, 

 a thick, usually resinous exudation 

 of reputed medicalefficacy; Bal'sam, 

 pr. Bawls' m ; a similar exudation, 

 generally of resin mixed with 

 volatile oil ; balsamic, having the 

 qualities of balsam ; balsamif erous, 

 -rus, (fe.ro, I bear), producing 

 balsam. 



Bamb'oo, the name applied to the 

 culm of arborescent grasses, not- 

 ably species of Bambusa. 

 Band, (1) space between two ridges in 

 the fruit of Umbellifers ; (2) a stripe 

 generally ; <~ shaped, used of long 



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