HORTUS JAMAICENSIS. 



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A"w~NLF^s fMulicus), Having no awn ; 

 opposed to owned, 



-Axil ox Axilla. The angle formed by a 

 bianch with the stem, or by a leaf with 

 the branch. 80 named from its simila- 

 rity to the armpit, borne old writers call 

 it Ala, but this term is otherwise appro- 

 priated. 



Axillary leaves. Growing at the angles 

 formed by the branches with the stem ; 

 of, inserted at the base of the branch. 

 Axillary peduncle, scape, cirrus or ten- 

 tlril, and thorn ; proceeding from the 

 axils, or from the bosom of the leaves 

 or branches. 



Bacc*, a berry. 



Bacciferous. Berry-bearing. 



Banner or Standard. The upper petal of 

 a papilionaceous corolla. 



Barb. A straight process, armed with se- 

 veral teeth pointing backwards like the 

 sting of a bee. 



Barbatus. See Bearded. 



Beakfd Terminated by a process, shap- 

 ed like the beak of a bird. 



Beard. In pubescence, parallel hairs ; or 

 atuft of stiff hairs terminating the leaves. 



Bearded. Having parallel hairs, or tufts 

 of hairs. 



Beardless. Void of parallel hairs or tufts. 



Bell-shaped. Bell-form, or campanulate 

 corolla. Swelling or bellying out, with- 

 out any tube. 



Bellying or bellied. Swelling out in the 

 middle 



Berry. A succulent or pulpy pericarp or 

 fruit, without valves, containing naked 

 seeds. 



Bicapsular. Having two capsules contain- 

 ing seeds, to each flower. 



Bicornes (two-homed). 



Biennial root. Enduring two years and 

 then perishing. 



Bifarious leaves. Pointing two ways ; or, 

 coming out only on opposite sides of a 

 branch. 



Biferous plants. Bearing twice in a year. 



BifiD, two-cleft, or cloven. 



Biflorous. Two- flowered, or bearing 

 two flowers. 



Bigeminate leaf. Twin-fork. A decom- 

 pound leaf, having a dichotomous or 

 forked petiole, with several folioles or 

 leaflets at the end of each division. 



Bijugous leaf. A pinnate leaf having two 

 pairs of leaflets. 



Bilabiate or two lipped corolla. 



BlLAMMF llate stigma. The form of a flat- 

 t d sphere, longitudinally bifid. 



Bii.obate leaf Divided into two lobes. 



Bilocular. Divided into two cells inter- 

 nally. 



Bi.^a folia Two-fold leaves; or rather 

 coming out two and two together, from 

 the same place, or at the same joint of a 

 branch 



Einate leaf Having a simple petiole con- 

 necting two leaflets at the top of it; a 

 species of digitate leaf, which see. 



Bipartibile. Divisible into two. 



Bipartite. Divided into two parts. 



Bipi\nate, or doubly winged. When the 

 common petiole has pinnate leaves on 

 each side of it. 



Bipinnatifid, or doubly pinnatifid. When 

 the common petiole has pinnatifid leaves 

 on each side of it. 



Bitern'ate or doubly-ternate leaf. When 

 a petiole has three ternate leaflets. 



Bivalve, or two-valved pericarp. In 

 which the covering, or seed case, splits 

 into two parts. 



Bladder. A distended membranaceous 

 pericarp. 



Blunt, or Obtuse, leaf, perianth, capsule. 

 Ending in a segment less than that of a 

 circle. Opposed to sharp or acute. 



Boat-shaped, navicular or cymbiform; as 

 the valve of some pericarps, and the ca- 

 rina of papilionaceous flowers. Hol- 

 lowed and resembling aboatin shape. 



Bolf, the naked trunk of a tree. 



Border or brim. The upper spreading 

 part of a monopetalous or one-pctaled 

 corolla 



BraChiate. Having branches. 



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