bladdery 



boiled 



membranous pericarp, as iu Pliy- 

 salis ; ~ Plums, an abortion of the 

 fruit of plums, the stone being 

 wanting, and a thin bladder repre- 

 senting the rest of the fruit ; 

 blad'dery, thin and inflated. 



Blade, the limb or expanded portion 

 of a leaf. 



blanched, (1) the whitened appearance 

 of leaf or stem from the want of 

 iron ; (2) artificially produced by 

 exclusion of light, the green chloro- 

 phyll pigment not being developed 

 in either case. 



Blaste'ma (/SXdoT^a, a sprout), (1) 

 originally the axis of an embryo, 

 the radicle and plumule, excluding 

 the cotyledons ; (2) J the Lichen- 

 thallus ; blaste'mal, rudimentary ; 

 blastemat'icus, thalloid ; Blaste'sis, 

 the reproduction of the thallus of 

 Lichens by gonidia (Minks). 



Blastid'ia (/BXacrTos, shoot), Schleiden's 

 term for secondary cells generated 

 in the interior of another cell, 

 daughter cells ; Blast'idules, 

 M'Nab's expression for all repro- 

 ductive bodies which are not spores, 

 but produced asexually, as gemmae, 

 propagula, etc. ; blastocarp'ous | 

 (/capTroj, fruit), applied to those 

 fruits which germinate within the 

 pericarp ; Blastocol'la (/coXXa, glue), 

 the balsam which is produced on 

 buds by glandular hairs (Han- 

 stein) ; Blastogen'esis (yevetri's, be- 

 ginning), M'Nab used this for all 

 methods of asexual reproduction 

 which are not due to Sporogenesis ; 

 Blastograph'ia (ypdf'W, I write), the 

 study of buds (Du Petit Thouars) ; 

 Blastomyce'tes (/J.VKTJS, fungus), a 

 synonym of Saccharomycetes, the 

 yeast fungus, etc. ; Blast'ophore, 

 Blastoph'orus J (0op^w, I carry), the 

 vitellus, the sac of the amnios in a 

 thickened scale, forming a case in 

 which the embryo lies ; Blast'us J 

 the plumule. 



Blind, a cultivator's expression for 

 abortion, as when a flower-bud is 

 said to go blind, that is, does not 

 develop. 



Blea, pr. blee ; the liber or inner 

 bark. 



Bleb, Hill's term for a pith-cell. 



Bleed'ing, applied to an extravasation 

 of sap, such as occurs in vines if 

 injured in spring during leaf ex- 

 pansion. 



Blendl'ing 1 , a hybrid between races, 

 not species. 



Bleph'arae, pi. (/SXe^apop, an eyelash), 

 the teeth belonging to the peristome 

 of a Moss ; Bleph'aroplast (TTXCIO-TOS, 

 moulded), the specialised proto- 

 plasm which gives rise to the motile 

 cilia of the antherozoids as in Zamia 

 and Cycas; Blepharoplast'oids (eI5os, 

 resemblance), in nuclear division, 

 two bodies appearing between the 

 2- and 4-celled stage at each pole of 

 the two spindles, disappearing into 

 the cytoplasm before the rise of the 

 blepharoplasts themselves (Shaw). 



Blet, a soft spot on fruit ; Blet'ting, 

 the change in consistence without 

 putrefaction, of certain fruits, as 

 the medlar. 



Blight, popularly applied to an epi- 

 demic, either of minute Fungi, or of 

 aphides. 



Bloom, (1) synonymous with BLOSSOM ; 

 (2) the white waxy or pruinose 

 covering on many fruits and 

 leaves. 



Blos'som, the flower, especially of fruit 

 trees; ~ Bud, = Flower-bud. 



blotch'ed, colour irregularly disposed 

 in patches. 



blunt, ending in a rounded form, 

 neither tapering to a point, nor 

 abruptly cut off. 



boat-shaped, having the figure of a 

 boat, with or without a keel. 



bola'ris (Mod. Lat.), dark red, brick- 

 coloured ; from the earth, Ar- 

 menian Bole. 



Bole, the main trunk of a tree, with 

 a distinct stem. 



bolet'ic, obtained from the genus 

 Boletus, as boletic acid. 



Boll, pr. boal, the fruit capsule or 

 pericarp, especially of the cotton 

 plant ; Boiling, pr. boal'ing, 

 POLLARD ; boiled, pr. boald, come 



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