Brachymeiosis 



brick-like 



host ; Brachymeio'sis (+ Meiosis), 

 abnormal nuclear division in which 

 half the heterotype number of 

 chromosomes are present, sometimes 

 without their visible union (Fraser 

 and Brooks) ; adj. brachymeiot'ic ; 

 brachyphyU'ous {(pvWou, a leaf), 

 short-leaved ; brachyp'odous {irovs, 

 iroShs, a foot), having a short stalk 

 or foot ; Brachyscle'reids {(XKA-nphs, 

 hard), stone-cells, the sclereids in 

 barks and fruits (Tschirch) ; brachy- 

 sty'lous (+ Style), a synonym 

 of MicRosTYLOus ; brachytheroxero- 

 chi'mous (l^p^s, dry), adapted to 

 short summers and dry winters 

 (Drude) ; brachyther'ous {dcpos, 

 summer), exposed to short summers; 

 3rachytme'ma {rfxruxa, section), a 

 disc-shaped cell, which by its rup- 

 ture sets free a gemma in Bryophytes 

 (Correns) ; brachyxercchi'mous, in- 

 ured to short, dry winters (Drude). 



Brack'et-cells, secretory cells in Lon- 

 chocarpics with papillose epithelium ; 

 -^ -epithe'lium, leaf epithelium sliow- 

 \ ing finger-like differentiation of the 

 component cells ; '-- -hairs, bent or 

 liooked at the apex ; ~ -shaped, a 

 term used by Boodle and Fritsch, 

 for a body curved like a parenthesis. 



Bract, Bract' ea (Lat., a thin plate of 

 metal), the modified leaves inter- 

 mediate between the calyx and the 

 normal leaves ; ~ -cell, used for 

 ceitain cells on the branchlets of 

 Chara ;, '^ -scale, in Coniferae, a 

 scale of the cone above which lies 

 the seed-bearing scale ; bract'eal, of 

 the nature of a bract ;• bract'eate, 

 hractea'fus, provided with bracts ; 

 bracteif'erous (fero, I bear), bearing 

 bracts ; bract ea' mis X, formed of 

 bracts; Bracteo'dy (eUos, rcsemb- 

 lauce), the change of foliar organs 

 into bracts (Worsdell) ; Bract'eole, 

 Bracte'ola, (1) a bractlet, or small 

 bract ; (2) a prophyll ; (3) a pos- 

 tical bract of Hepaticae (Spruce) ; 

 Bract'eole-succulents, such plants as 

 lose their leaves by drying up, but 

 the bracteoles round the flowers 

 become enlarged and succulent, e. g. 



Salsola ; bract'eolate, bradeola'tus, 

 having bract^ets ; Bracteoma'nia 

 {rtiania, madness), excessive develop- 

 ment of bracts ; bract'eose, hract- 

 eo'sus, having conspicuous or 

 numerous bracts ; bract'less, want- 

 ing bracts ; Bracflet, a bract of the 

 last grade, as one inserted on a 

 pedicel or ultimate flower-stalk, 

 instead of subtending it. 



brad'yscMst {^padhs, slow ; o-xtCTJ)?, 

 split), when in a brood mother-cell 

 successive nuclear divisions are com- 

 pleted before cell-division (Hartog). 



Bran, the husks or outer coats of 

 ground corn, separated from the 

 flour by bolting ; bran-like, s-curfy 

 in appearance. 



Branch, a division of the stem, or axis 

 of growth ; Branch'ery, Grew's term 

 for the ramifications in the pulp of 

 fraits ; Branch'ing, Interc'alary, in 

 Hepaticae where branchin;^' arises 

 below the apical cell ; Ter'minal '- , 

 the branching arising from a division 

 of the apical cell (Leitgeb) ; branch'- 

 less, bare of branches ; Branch'let, 

 a twig or small branch, the ultimate 

 division of a branch. 



Brand, disease caused by minute Fungi 

 on leaves, as Ustilayo, etc. ; Brand'- 

 spore = Uredospore. 



Bras'ilin, the colouring - matter of 

 Brazil wood, Caesalpinia hrasiliensis, 

 Linn. 



brassica'ceous {Brassica -\- aceous), 



rcsemblini; the 



genus 



Brassica, or 



belon,i(ing to it. 



Braun's Series, the same as Fibonacci 

 Series. 



Jbreak, (1) to put out new leaves ; (2) 

 to show a variation, as in florist's 

 flowers ; Break-back, reversion to an 

 earlier type ; Breaking, a popular 

 expression for a sudden jti'ofusion 

 of algal life in certain lakes or 

 meres. 



Brea'thing-pores = Stoma ta. 



Breed = PtACE ; Cross-breed ^Hvp.rid. 



bre'vi-ramo'sus (^/ri-/.>--, short; 7'amosus, 

 bi-anched), sliort-branched. 



brick-colour, usually implies a dull- 

 red ; latericious, testaceous ; ~ like. 



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