Biophyte 



(ADDITIONS) 



cambiogenetic 



agous ; Bi'ophyte (<f>vrov, a plant), 

 a biophagous plant ; Bioplas'son 

 (TrXacrcrw, I mould), Elsberg's pro- 

 posed emendation of BIOPLASM. 



Bio'sis (j8iw<m, the act of living), 

 the state of vital activity ; life 

 (Escombe). 



bis'cuit-shaped, when used in trans- 

 lations from the German, means, 

 oblong, and slightly constricted in 

 the middle. 



bistip'ular, bistipulate ; bityp'ic 

 (T^TTOS, a type), applied to those 

 genera which consist of two widely 

 separated species ; biv'alent (valens, 

 strong), having hypothetically two 

 chromosomes in each of the apparent 

 chromosomes, in nuclear reduction 

 divisions. 



Bizzari'a (Ital., extravagant whim), 

 a hybrid between the orange and 

 the citron which has the character 

 of both in juxtaposition, but with- 

 out blending (Heinig). 



blastogen'ic (ytvo's, offspring), em- 

 ployed by Weismann for those 

 characters which have originated 

 from changes in the germ (L. H. 

 Bailey) ; Blastema' ma (/ucwd, mad- 

 ness), the production of an abnor- 

 mal number of leaf - shoots (A. 

 Braun) ; Blastomyce'tes (fj-vK-rj?, a 

 fungus) = SACCHAROMYCETES. 



bom'by sine (Heinig) = BOMBYCINUS. 



Bo'rer, the penetrating root of a 

 parasite (De Bary). 



Bot'any, add, (2) also used for a 

 text-book or local-flora. 



Brach'eid, Tschirch's suggested ab- 

 breviation of his own term 

 BRACHYSCLEREID. 



Bract-cell, used for certain cells on 

 the branchlets of Chara. 



Bract'eole, add, (3) a postical bract 

 of Hepaticae (Spruce). 



Brach'yblast (/SXaoros, a bud), Har- 

 tig's term for a spur, or short 

 branch ; also spelled Brach'yoblast ; 

 brachysty'lous( + STYLE),asynonym 



of MICROSTYLOUS. 



brad'yschist (fipadiis, slow, ffxivros, 

 split), when in a brood mother-cell 

 successive nuclear divisions are 



completed before cell - division 

 (Hartog). 



brassica'ceous (Brassica, + aceous), 

 resembling the genus Brassica, or 

 belonging to it. 



Bro'melin, a proteolytic enzyme oc- 

 curring abundantly in the juice of 

 the pine-apple, which is a member 

 of the Bromeliaceae, whence the 

 name. 



Bry'ogams, Bryogam'ia (yd^cs, mar- 

 riage), term proposed by Caruel 

 for the Bryophytes ; Bryo'ma, the 

 vegetative substance of Mosses. 



Bud-corm, the root-system of most 

 herbaceous plants (J. Smith) ; ~ 

 -gall, Kerner's term for a gall 

 which involves several or all the 

 members of a shoot, and may be 

 leafless or leafy ; Bud'dage, propa- 

 gation by buds (L. H. Bailey). 



Bun' die-ends, the peripheral ends of 

 bundles when spread out in the 

 leaves or periphery of the stem ; 

 ~ -trunks, those bundles which 

 pass through the stem, root, leaf- 

 stalk and thick nerves of the leaf ; 

 they may be complete or in- 

 complete. 



Bynedes'tin (fivvr], malt, + EDESTIN), 

 a globulin found in malt with 

 By'nin, a proteid which replaces 

 Hordein when barley is malted. 



bys'soid (ddos, resemblance), the same 



as BYSSACEOUS. 



Caenogen'esis (tcatvcs, new, yevecris, 

 beginning), the acquisition of char- 

 acters of a recent date, from re- 

 adjustment to the environment 

 (spelled also in various ways) ; cf. 

 PALINGENESIS. 



calam'itoid (eldos, resemblance), 

 calamitean. 



Cal'athis, see CALATHIDIUM. 



Callune'tum, Warming's term for a 

 plant - association consisting of 

 heather, Calluna. 



Cal'ycals, proposed by Bessey for 

 Calyciflorae. 



cambiogenet'ic ( + CAMBIUM, yevos, 

 offspring), giving rise to cambium 

 (De Bary). 



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