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trace ; Concen'tric ^ , when either 

 the wood, or the bast- system sur- 

 rounds the other ; Conjoint' -^ , con- 

 sisting of both wood and bast; 

 Cort'ical -^ , peculiar to the cortical 

 region ; Meduriary <-' , the vascular 

 bundles occurring in the pith, when 

 there is a well-defined exterior ring ; 

 O'pen ~ , when the bundle possesses 

 a portion of cambium ; Ra'dial ^ , 

 having the strands of wood and bast 

 alternately as in roots ; Phlo'em -^ , 

 the bast portion ; Vasc'nlar '^ , the 

 entire strand, consisting of liber or 

 bast portion (phloem) and tracheal 

 or wood portion (xylem) in vari- 

 ous degrees ; Xy'lem -^ , the wood 

 portion. 



Bunt, a common disease of the wheat 

 plant, from Tilletia Tritici, Winter. 



Bur or Burr, (1) a prickly-headed 

 fruit ; applied to the chestnut, Arc- 

 tium, and the like ; (2) the female 

 inflorescence of the hop, when the 

 stigmas forming the Brush are 

 visible ; "bur^ry, resembling a bur. 



Bur'gpindy Pitch, a resin from species 

 oi Abies. 



Burr, a woody outgrowth from the 

 bark of certain trees ; cf. Gnaur. 



Bur'sa (Lat., a purse), % the antheri- 

 dium of Chara ; Bur'sicule, Bur- 

 sic'ula (Lat., a small purse), the 

 pouch -like expansion of the stigma 

 into which the caudicle of some 

 Orchids is inserted ; bursic'ulate, 

 bursicula'tus, purse-like. 



Bush, alow shrub, branching from the 

 ground. 



Bush'land, shrubs and small trees con- 

 stituting a formation (Warming) ; 

 arctic '^ , with Betula nana ; subal'- 

 pine ~', Rhododendrons, Vacciniutn, 

 etc. ; Bush-swamp, made up of 

 woody plants as alder and willow 

 with marsh plants ; Bush-wood, of 

 taller, lignified plarts, but falling 

 short of Forest. 



But'terfly Flowers, Lepidopterid 

 flowers, usually red, whose honey- 

 store can only be readied by a long 

 proboscis (Knuth); ~like, -^ shaped, 



= PAPILIONACEOUS. 



But'tons, (1) an old term for Buds, 

 (2) J. E. Smith's name for Tricae. 



But'tress, the knee-like growths of 

 trunk or roots in certain trees. 



Butyr'ic Fer'ment, caused by Bacillus 

 Amylohacter, Van Tiegh. ; see Fer- 

 mentation. 



bux'eous, hux'eus {Buxiis, the Box- 

 tree), (1) the colour of box-wood, 

 (2) pertaining to that tree.; Bux'ine, 

 an alkaloid from Buxus semper- 

 virens, Linn. 



Bynedes'tin {^vvri, malt, -f Edestin), 

 a globulin found in malt with 

 By'nin, a proteid which replaces 

 Hordein when barley is malted. 



byssa'ceous, -ceus {byssus, fine flax), 

 composed of fine threads. 



bys'sine, bys'soid {eJSos, resemblance), 

 the same as byssaceous. 



Bys'sus, the stipe of certain Fungi. 



Caa Ting'a, Brazilian forests, which 

 are deciduous during the hot and 

 dry season (Warming). 



caca'inus, chocolate brown ; from the 

 name of Theobroma Cacao, Linn. 



Cach'rys % (Lat.), the cone of a pine- 

 tree. 



Cac'onym {KUKhs, bad ; 6vo/j.a, a name), 

 a name rejected for linguistic reasons 

 (0. F. Cook). 



cact'al {Cactus, a genus of succulents), 

 cacta'ceous (-}- aceous), cactus-like, 

 or pertaining to the order Cactaceae ; 

 cac'tiform (forma, shape), applied to 

 succulent stems like those of cacti, 

 and of Euphorbia. 



Cacu'men J (Lat. ), the apex of an 

 organ. 



ca'dens (Lat., falling), when the funi- 

 culus passes over the top of the 

 seed, as in Plumbagineae ; cadu'cous, 

 cadu'cus, dropping off" early, as the 

 sepals of a poppy on expansion. 



Cae'cum (Lat., blind), a prolongation 

 of the embryo in Casuarina and 

 certain Amenti ferae. 



Caeno'bio =CoEX< )Bio. 



Caenody'namism {naivhs, recent ; 

 Zvva(xis, power), Giard's term for 

 tlife replacement of complex fuhc- 

 tions by simpler ; adj. caenody- 



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