bombycinus 



Braohyforms 



sniootli as silk ; bom'bysine (Heiiiig) 



= BOMBYCINUS, 



bo'ny, of a otose and hard texture, as 



tlie stones of plums, etc. 

 boragina'ceous, belonging to or re- 

 sembling the genus Borago or its 

 allies ; bor'agoid, or bor'ragoid, from 

 the genus Borago, applied to a form 

 of inflorescence which tinds its fullest 

 development in Anchusa, an extreme 

 case of extra-axillary inflorescence 

 (K. Schumann). 



bord'ered, having a margin distinct in 

 colour or texture from the rest ; 

 '^ Pit, a pit in which the margin 

 projects over the thin closing mem- 

 brane, as in coniferous wood ; -^ 

 Pore, is the same thing. 



Bo'rer, (1) the penetrating root of a 

 parasite (De Bary) ; (2) an insect 

 tunnelling into the Avood of trees 

 during its larval stage. 



bor'ragoid = bora(joid. 



Boss, a protuberance ; bossed, witli a 

 rounded surface having a projection 

 in its centre. 



bost'rychoid (^fiSarpv^, a ringlet ; ^iSos, 

 resemblance), having the form of a 

 Bo.sTRYX ; '-' Cjrme, a sympodial 

 branch-system in which the right- 

 or left-hand branch is always the 

 most vigorous ; a helicoid cyme ; 

 '-' Dicbot'omy, a dichotomy or 

 repeated forking of an inflores- 

 cence, within the previous detini- 

 tiou ; Bost'ryx, a uniparous, helicoid 

 cyme. 



botanic (jSotoj'tj, a herb), pertaining to 

 the knowledge of j)lants ; -^Gar'den, 

 a garden esi)edally devoted to the 

 culture of plants for scientific ends ; 

 Bot'anist, a student of plant life, in 

 any of its departments ; bot'anize, 

 (1) to seek for plants in tlieir places 

 of growth ; (2) to study actual 

 plants ; Botanol'ogy {\6yos, dis- 

 course) = Botany ; Bot'any, (1) the 

 study of the vegetable kingdom in 

 all its divisions ; its classification, 

 morphology, physiology, and eco- 

 ininocs ; (2) also used for a text- 

 book or local -flora. 



Bothrench'yma {P6dpos, a i)it ; (yxv/j-a, 



tliat poured in), tissue composed of 

 dotted or pitted ducts or cells. 



Bot'ms (Crozier) = Hotrys. 



bot'ry-cy'mose {B6tpvs, a bunch of 

 grapes ; Kv/xa, a wave), racemes or 

 any botryose clusters cymosely 

 aggiegated ; bot'ryoid, botryoid'al 

 {elSos, resemblance), like a cluster 

 of grapes ; bot'ryose, hotryo'sus 

 racemose ; Bot'rys, a raceme. 



Bottom-yeast, or Low -yeast, the yeast 

 which forms at the bottom of the 

 vats ; in German, "Unterhefe." 



bot'uliform, hotuliform' is {botulics, a 

 sausage ; forma, shape), sausage- 

 shaped, allantoid. 



Bouillon (Fr.), meat-broth, used for 

 cultures. 



Bound'ary Cell, Ger. , Grenzzelle =s 

 Heterocyst. 



bour'geontFr., in English pr. bur'jun), 

 to bud or sprout. 



Bracb'eid, Tschirch's suggested ab- 

 brevaation of his own term 

 Braohysclereid. 



bracbialis {hrachium, the fore-arm), 

 a cubit long, roughly about 18 

 inches ; bra'cbiate, hra^hia'tus, 

 when branches spread and widely 

 diverge. 



brachy {^paxvs) = short, used in Greek 

 compounds. 



bracbybiostigmat'ic {Bpaxvs, short ; 

 Pios, life ; ariyfia, a spot), a term 

 proposed by Uelpino to express 

 stigmas which are short-lived, 

 withering before their proper anthers 

 ripen ; pro togy nous ; Bradh'y blast 

 (jSAotrrbs, a bud), Hartig's tenu for 

 a spur, or short branch ; also spelled 

 Brach'yoblast ; brachychi'mous 



(x«tMO) winter), exposed to short 

 winters (Drude) ; brachyclad'ous, 

 •dus {kAoSos, a branch), applied by 

 Kussow to those species of Sphagnuvi 

 which bear short branches ; brachy- 

 dod'romous {SpS/xos, a course), with 

 looped veins (Kerner), cf. brochi- 

 DODROMUs ; Brach'yforms ( + forma, 

 shape), Arthur's term for Brachy- 

 puccinid, the ascidia being wanting, 

 but spei-magonia, uredospores and 

 teleutospores occur on the same 



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