banded 



Basistonus 



narrow leaves, linear ; band'ed, 

 marked with stripes of colour. 



Ban'ner, the standard of a papilion- 

 aceous flower. 



Barb, hooked hairs, frequently doubly- 

 hooked ; 



Barba (Lat. ), a beard; bar'bate, barba'- 

 tus, bearded, having long weak 

 hairs in tufts ; Barbell'ae J, the 

 short stiff straight hairs of Com- 

 posite pappus ; adj. barbell' ate ; 

 Barbell'ulae, J similar structures in 

 the pappus of Aster; adj. bar- 

 bell' ulate, barbellula'tus ; Barb'ule, 

 Barb'ula, (1) the inner row of teeth 

 in the peristome of such Mosses as 

 Tortilla ; (2) a small barb (Crozier). 



Barill'a, the crude soda from Salsola 

 and allied genera. 



Bark, (1) the outer integuments of 

 the wood and exterior to it, 

 all tissues outside the cambium ; 

 (2) frequently restricted to the 

 periderm and tissues external to 

 it ; bared, stripped of the bark ; 

 <-" bound, having the bark too 

 tense, thus impeding growth ; <- 

 galled, having the bark injured. 



Barm, the floating yeast as used in 

 bread-making, the "Oberhefe" of 

 the Germans ; barm'y, containing 

 yeast. 



barred, crossed by lines approx- 

 imately parallel. 



bar'ren, unproductive, infertile ; ap- 

 plied to the male inflorescence of 

 certain Mosses ; ~ Flow'er, the male 

 or staminate flower. 



Barymorpho'sis (fiapus, heavy, fj.op$(i>- 

 (tis, shape), Sachs's term for the 

 changes produced in organisms in 

 consequence of gravitation. 



ba'sal (basis, foundation), at the base 

 of an organ or part ; <~ Cell, the first 

 cell of an angiospermous embryo 

 which becomes attached to the wall 

 of the embryo-sac ; <- Growth, in- 

 crease near the base, as distin- 

 guished from apical growth ; ~ 

 nerved, basiner'vis, with nerves 

 from the base of the leaf ; -~ Pla- 

 cen'ta, the placenta at the base of the 

 ovary ; <~ Wall, the division of the 



oospore in Archegoniatae into an 

 anterior and a posterior half ; 

 Base, the extremity of attach- 

 ment, by which nutrition takes 

 place. 



Bas'id = Basid'ium, pi. Basid'ia (basi- 

 dium, a little pedestal), the mother- 

 cells of Hymenomycetous and Gas- 

 teromycetous Fungi, having little 

 points from which spores are thrown 

 off ; basidiogenet'ic (7^05, race, de- 

 scent), produced upon a basidium ; 

 Basidiogonid'ium (JOVT], race, off- 

 spring), proposed emendation of 

 " basidiospore " ; Basidiomyce'tes 

 (/zi//cr?s, /J.IKTITOS, fungus), Fungi pro- 

 ducing spores on basidia ; Basid'- 

 iophore (<poptu, I carry), a sporo- 

 phore bearing a basidium ; Basi- 

 diorhi'zae (pifa, root), Vuillemin's 

 name for Basidiomycetes ; Basid'io- 

 spore (airopa, a seed), a spore pro- 

 duced by a basidium ; basidio- 

 sp'orous, producing such spores. 



basin 'xed, basifix'us (basis, foundation, 

 fxiiK, fast), attached by the base ; 

 basif'ugal (fugo, I put to flight), 

 developing from the base upwards ; 

 basig'amous (yd/j.os, marriage), when 

 the normal position of egg-apparatus 

 and antipodals is reversed ; the oo- 

 sphere and synergidae being at the 

 lower end of the mother-cell of the 

 endosperm (embryo - sac) ; Van 

 Tieghem contemplates the possible 

 occurrence of double Basig'amy ; 

 Basigyn'ium (yvi>ij, a woman), a the- 

 caphore, the stalk of an ovary 

 above the stamens and petals ; 

 taas'ilar, baxila'ris, basal ; basin- 

 er'ved (nermis, a nerve), veined from 

 the base ; basila'tus J arising from 

 a broad base as certain hairs ; basi- 

 p'etal (peto, I seek), growth in the 

 direction of the base. 



Ba'sis (Lat.) the base ; basiscop'ic 

 (ffKoirtw, I look), looking towards the 

 base, the reverse of acroscopic ; 

 basisolu'tus J (solutus, unbound), 

 used of such leaves as those of 

 Sedum which are prolonged down- 

 wards beyond their true origin ; 

 Basist'onus (r6i>os, a cord), the pro- 



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