biciliate 



bijugate 



two heads or two supports ; bici- 

 1'iate, bicilia'tus (cilium, an eyelash), 

 with two cilia, as many zoospores ; 

 bicollat'eral (con,+ latus, lateris, 

 side), applied to a vascular bundle 

 with two groups of phloem lying 

 upon opposite sides of the xylem ; 

 Bicollateral'ity, is the state just 

 described. 



bic'olor (Lat.) two- coloured, parti- 

 coloured. 



biconcen'tric (bi, con + centrum, a 

 point), Poulsen's term for the fibro- 

 vascular bundles in Eriocauloneae ; 

 round the axial hadrome bundle is 

 a layer of leptome, which is again 

 enclosed by a hadrome layer ; bi- 

 con'jugate, biconjuga't-iis, (conjuga- 

 tes, joined), twice-conjugate, that 

 is, when each of two secondary 

 petioles bears a pair of leaflets ; 

 biconjuga'to-pinna'tus, similar to 

 the last, but each petiole pinnate ; 

 Bicor'nes (corn-it, ahorn), theheaths, 

 from their horned anthers ; bicor'nis 

 (Lat.) bicorn'ute, bicornu'tus, two- 

 horned, as the siliqua of Matthiola 

 bicornis, DC. ; bicre'nate (crena, a 

 notch) (1) having two crenatures or 

 rounded teeth (Crozier) ; (2) doubly 

 crenate ; taicru'ris (Lat. ) two legged, 

 as the pollen-masses of Asclepiads ; 

 bicusp'id (cuspis, spear-point) ; bi- 

 cusp'idate, having two sharp points; 

 bident'ate, bidenta'tus (dens, dent-is, 

 a tooth), (1) having two teeth ; (2) 

 doubly dentate, as when the mar- 

 ginal teeth are also toothed ; bi- 

 digita'tus (Lat.) = BicoNJUGATE. 



bid'uous, biduus (biduum, two days 



long), lasting for two days. 

 Bienn'ial, (biennium, a period of two 

 years), a plant which requires two 

 years to complete its life-cycle, 

 growing one year, and flowering 

 and fruiting the second ; signs or 

 0; bien'nial, 6ie?ims = monocarpic. 

 Biere'mus (bi, twice, eremus, a hermit), 

 a two-celled fruit, the cells so far 

 apart as to seem separate, as in 

 Cerinthe; bifa'cial (fades, an appear- 

 ance), when the leaf has spongy 



tissue on the lower face, and com- 

 pact tissue on the upper sides ; 

 opposed to centric. 



bifa'riam (Lat. in two parts), arranged 

 in two rows ; ~ imbrica'tus, imbri- 

 cated in two rows ; bifa'rious, bi- 

 fa'rius, distichous. 



Bi'fer (bi, fero, I bear), a plant which 

 ripens fruit twice a year (Crozier) ; 

 bif'erous, biferus, double bearing, 

 producing two crops in one season ; 

 bi'fid, bij'idus (findo,fidi, to cleave), 

 twice-cleft, divided halfway into 

 two ; bif'idate = bifid (Crozier) ; 

 bifist'ular (fistula, a pipe), with 

 two tubular openings (Crozier) ; 

 biflor'ate (Crozier), biflor'ous, -rus 

 (flos, floris, a flower), having two 

 flowers ; bifoliate, bifolia'tus (fo- 

 lium, a leaf), two-leaved ; bifo'lio- 

 late, bifo/iola'tus, having two leaf- 

 lets ; ~ Leaf, binate ; bifollic'ular, 

 possessing a Bifollic'ulus (fotticu- 

 lus, a small sack), a double follicle. 



bifo'rate, bifora'ttis (biforis, having 

 two doors), with two perforations ; 

 Bif'orine, an oblong cell, opening at 

 each end, containing raphides ; 

 bifo'rous = bif orate. 



biform'is (Lat.), two formed ; in two 

 shapes. 



bi'frons (Lat.), (1) having two faces 

 or aspects ; (2) growing on both 

 surfaces of a leaf, amphigenous. 



bifurc'ate, bifurca'tus (bifurcvs, two- 

 pronged or forked), twice forked ; 

 Bifurca'tion, division into two 

 branches. 



bigem'inate, bigemina'tus (geminus, 

 atwin) = BicoNJUGATE ; bigem'inus, 

 in two pairs, as in the placentae of 

 many plants. 



Bi'gener (Lat. a hybrid), mule plants 

 obtained by crossing different 

 genera, usually spoken of as a 

 bigeneric Cross. 



bigland'ular (bi, two, glandula, a 

 gland), with two glands. 



biglu'mis (gfuma, a husk), consisting 

 of two glumes, the components of 

 the perianth of grasses ; biHila'tus 

 ( + HILUM), having two scars as 

 in certain pollen ; biju'gate bijuga'- 



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