bicapsular 



Bifolliculus 



callosities ; bicap'sular {caj)sida, a 

 box), (1) with two capsules ; (2) 

 liaving a capsule which is bilocular ; 

 bicar'inate, bicarina'tus {carina, a 

 keel), with two keels ; Bicar'pals, 

 proposed by Bessey for the Bicar- 

 pella'tae of Benthani and Hooker, a 

 series of gamopetalous Phanerogams 

 {cf. Gen. PL ii. pp. vi.-vii. ) ; the 

 latter term also used by Boulger to 

 embrace the majority of Gamopeta- 

 lae with Umbelliferae ; bicar'pel- 

 lary (+ carjiellum), of two carpels 

 or pistils ; bicarpell'ate, having a 

 two-celled fruit ; bicellular, of two 

 cells ; biceph'aloas {K€<paK^, head) ; 

 bi'ceps(Lat. ),twoheaded ; bichron'ic 

 {xpdvos, time), applied to an e(4ua- 

 tion, in which the mutations multi- 

 plied by the intervals of time, equal 

 the biologic time (De Vries) ; bicir- 

 iate, hicilia'tns {ciliinn, an eyelash), 

 with two cilia, as many zoospores ; 

 bitip'ital, with two heads or two 

 supports ; bicollat'eral {con, -\- latiis, 

 lateris, side), applied to a vascular 

 bundle with two groups of phloem 

 lying upon opposite sides of the 

 xylem ; BicoUaterarity, is the state 

 just described. 



bic'olor (Lat.), two-coloured, parti- 

 coloured. 



biconcen'tric {bi, con -\- centrum, a 

 point), Poulsen's term for the fibro- 

 vascular bundles in Eriocauleae ; 

 round the axial hadrome bundle is 

 a layer of lei)tome, which is again 

 enclosed by a hadrome layer ; bi- 

 con'jugate, bicovjuga'tus {conjuga- 

 tus, joined), twice-conjugate, that 

 is, when each of two secondary 

 petioles bears a ])air of leaflets ; 

 biconjuga'to-pinna'tus, similar to 

 the last, but each petiole ])innate. 



Bicor'nes {Jncornis, two-horned), the' 

 heaths, from their horned antliers ; 

 bicor'nis (Lat.) bicorn'ute, bicor- 

 vtl'tiis, two-horned, as the siliqua 

 o\' Mnff/iioJa bicornis, DC. ; bicotyle'- 

 donary, having two seed-lobes, more 

 conectly ciilled dicotvlkdonous. 



bicre'nate {hi, twice ; crcna, a notch), 

 (1) having two crenatures or rounded 



teeth (Crozier) ; (2) doubly crenate ; 

 bicru'ris (Lat.), two-legged, a^ the 

 pollen-masses of Asclepiads ; bi- 

 cusp'id {cicspis, spear-point) ; bicus- 

 pldate, having two sharp points ; 

 bident'ate, bidenta'tivs {dtrns, dentis^ 

 a tooth), (1) having two teeth ; (2) 

 doubly dentate, as when the mar- 

 ginal teeth are also toothed ; bidi- 

 gita'tus (Lat.) = biconjugate. 



biddulpb'ioid {ethos, like), resembling 

 the genus of Diatoms, Biddidphia. 



Biden'ton {Bidens -f- on) Clements's 

 term for a "family " of Bidens. 



bid'uons, bid'uus {biduum, two days 

 long), lasting for two days. 



Bienn'ial {biennium, a period of two 

 years), a plant which requires two 

 years to complete its life-cycle, 

 growing one year, and flowering 

 and fruiting the second ; signs (2) or 

 ; bien'nial, &ic?i'?»'s=monocarpic. 



Biere'mus {bi, twice, cremus, a hermit), 

 a two-celled frait, the cells so far 

 apart as to seem separate, as in 

 Cerinthe; bifa'cial {fades, an appear- 

 ance), (1) when the leaf has si)ongy 

 tissue on the lower face, and com- 

 pact tissue on the upper sides ; 

 opposed to centric ; (2) having the 

 opposite sides alike ; (3) dorsiven- 

 tral ; bifa'riam (Lat., in two parts), 

 ai'ranged in two rows ; ~ imbrica'- 

 tus, imbricated in two rows ; 

 bifa'rious, bifa'rius, distichous. 



Bi'fer ipi, twice ; fero, I bear), a plant 

 which ripens fruit twice a year 

 (Crozier) ; bif' erous, biferus, double 

 bearing, producing two crops in one 

 season ; bi'fid, bif'idus {findo, fidi, 

 to cleave), twice-cleft, divided half- 

 way into two ; bif' idate = hifid 

 (Crozier) ; bifist'ular {ftstula, a 

 pipe), with two tubular openings 

 (Crozier) ; biflor'ate (Crozier), bi- 

 flor'ous, -nw {Jios, Jloris, a flower), 

 having two flowers ; bifoliate, bi/o- 

 lia'tus {folium, a leaf), two-leaved ; 

 bifo'liolate. bifoUoUi'tns, having two 

 leaflets ;, --' Leaf, binate ; bifollic'- 

 ular, possessing a Bifollic'ulas 

 (foUiculus, a small sack) ; a double 

 follicle, as in Asclepiads. 



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