GLOSSARY 743 
Bren’NtAL.—Applied to plants that live for more than one year but not longer than 
two years. 
BiLA’BIATE.—T wo lipped. 
BLApE.—Expanded part of a leaf. 
BLoom.—The whitish and waxy secretion of epidermal cells, as in the stems of 
Sugar Cane or the leaves of Cabbage. 
Borke.—The dead bark tissues which arise when secondary phellogen forms cork in 
deep regions of the bark. 
BrAct.—A modified leaf, frequently scale-like, appearing on inflorescence axes. 
Brac’TEOLE (bracteolar leaf).—A modified leaf found on pedicels. 
Bup.—A rudimentary stem. 
BuLs.—A very short scaly underground stem. 
Buv’si_s.—Small underground bulbs, as in garlic, 
Buv’BLeEtTs.—Small above ground bulbs, as in the tree onions. 
Bun’pLe.—See Vascular Bundle. Also applied to a more or less cylindrical group of 
any parallel, elongated cells or other objects. 
Bun’pLE SHEATH.—An endodermis or a border parenchyma enclosing a single 
bundle. 
Capvu’cous.—Falling with the opening of the flower, as the calyx of Papaver. 
Ca’/Lyx.—The outermost whorl of floral leaves, 
Cam’sium.—A secondary meristem lying between the phloem and xylem in certain 
collateral bundles (fascicular or intrafascicular cambium) or between the 
phloem and xylem portions of medullary rays (interfascicular cambium). 
CAmpAn’uULATE.—Bell shaped. 
Campy.o’rropous.—Applied to ovules or seeds that are curved so as to bring the 
apex and base near together. 
CANEs’cENT.—White or gray from a coating of fine hairs. 
Caour’cuouc.—A tenacious, elastic hydrocarbon found in the latex of many plants. 
Capruur’1um.—A network of filaments among spores, as in the sporangium of 
slime molds, the fruit body of puff balls, etc. 
Cap’rrATEe.—Shaped like a head. 
Cap’RiFICATION.—The process of pollinating figs artificially. 
Cap’suLe.—A dry, dehiscent fruit of a compound pistil consisting of two or more 
carpels. 
Carpo’Hy’DRATE.—A substance consisting of carbon and of hydrogen and oxygen in 
the proportion of two parts of hydrogen to one part of oxygen. 
Car’PEL.—A transformed leaf bearing one or more ovules; a simple pistil; a part of a 
nd pistil. 
Gust unicellular, female sexual organ of certain red alge and fungi 
consisting of a cell enlarged at its base, its terminal part ending in a long 
filament called a trichogyne. ‘ 
Car’poruore.—A slender stalk, the prolongation of the receptacle, to which the 
(mericarps) of the Umbellifera are attached. 
i ior akenes 
ee warty excrescence at or about the hilum of certain seeds, as that of 
il seed, etc. 
ee dry, indehiscent, one-seeded fruit of the grasses or cere Pare 
the fruit wall (pericarp) and seed coat firmly adhere. 
Car’xin.—A scaly spike of flowers. 
