Bftssorin 



Begleiter 



dissolve like Gum Arabic, but swells 

 up when placed in water, and forms 

 a pasty mass ; bassorinog'enous 

 {yfyos, offspring), producing Bass- 

 OKiN ; '^ Lay'er, the tissue con- 

 cerned in the production of this 

 substance, 



last, (1) the same as Bass ; (2) 

 phloem ; (3) fibrous tissues serving 

 for mechanical support ; -^ Cells, 

 the components of the bark ; -^ Col- 

 lench'yma, tissue with the walls of 

 the sides thickened on all sides 

 (C. Mueller) ; -- Fi'bres, = liber- 

 libres ; -^ Group, the phloem elements 

 and individual vascular bundles ; 

 '-' Sheath, layer of thin-walled 

 cells surrounding the fibro-vascular 

 cylinder next within the cortex ; the 

 periphloem ; ^ Tis'sue, phloem ; 

 - Ves'sel, sieve-tube ; - Wedg'es, 

 groups of phloem, wider in section 

 outwards ; — Hard -^ , liber-fibres ; 

 Soft '~, the sieve-tubes, with the 

 thin-walled part of the phloem. 



Bastardem'bryosperm {(rirepua, a seed), 

 C. MacMillan's term for any plant 

 with partbenogenetic embryo, the 

 effective j)ollen derived from another 

 plant or variety ; Bastarden'dosperm, 

 a similar jdant with partbenogenetic 

 endosperm, the ellectivo pollen aris- 

 ing from another individual or 

 variety ; Bastard 'ocarpy (vapiros, 

 fruit), the production of fruits by 

 hybrids. 



Bast-i'slands, another name for 

 Phloem-islands ; ^ Nerves, libri- 

 foi-m cells in the leaf of Najas 

 graminea, i)elile ; ~ Parench'yma, 

 phloem parenchyma ; '-- Rays = 

 Medullary Rays. 



Bath'mism {^aQ^iis, a step or degree), 

 Cope's term to denote the force or 

 energy of growth. 



bathyb'ic {^advs, deep or high ; ^ios, 

 life), applied to the deepest plankton 

 (Forel) ; batbylimnet'ic (A^^v»j, a 

 lake), used of plants sometimes 

 rooted, sometimes floating, with 

 a tendency towards deep water 

 ( Kirch ner) ; bathymet'rical [ficrpov, 

 measure), used of the distribution of 



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plants on the sea-bottom ; and the 

 depths at which they grow ; bathy- 

 pelag'ic (-H pelagic) ; plankton 

 companies which daily descend from 

 the surface (Forel) ; bathyph'ilus 

 {<pi\4a3, I love), dwelling in low- 

 lands ; Bathypby'ta, the plants of 

 a lowland association (Clements) ; 

 Bathyphyti'um {furdi', a plant), a 

 lowland plant formation. 



Batorogist {Bdrosr a bramble ; hdyos, 

 discoui-se), a student of brambles, 

 the species and forms of Ruhus ; 

 Batorogy, the study of brambles ; 

 batolog'ical, adj. of Batology. 



Batracbie'tum, an association of water- 

 crowfoot ; of any form of the Batra- 

 chium section of Jianuncultis. 



bay, dun-colour ; an equivalent of 



BADIOUS. 



Bays, applied to recessed or undulating 

 cell-walls (Solereder). 



Beak, a pointed projection ; beaked, 

 used of fruits which end in a long 

 point. 



Beard, synonymous with Awn ; 

 beard'ed, (1) awned, as bearded 

 wheat ; (2) having tufts of hairs, as 

 on the lip of Pentstemon harhalus, 

 Roth ; beard'letted, having small 

 awns. 



Bear'ers, used by Blair for flower-buds. 



Bebeer'in, a tonic alkaloid from the 

 Greenheart, Nedaiidra Rodiaei, 

 Hook. , native name, Behecru. 



Bedeguar', a fibrous gall produced on 

 a rose-bush by the puncture of a 

 species of Cynips. 



Bee-bread, the pollen of flowers, col- 

 lected by bees as food for the young 

 larvae ; ~ -flow'ers, those flowers 

 which afford honey to an insect hav- 

 ing a proboscis of 7 mm, ("275 in.) in 

 length. 



Beech' wood Association, natural beech- 

 woods found on the cbalk, Fayc'tum 

 sylvat'icae calcarcum. 



Beglei'ter (Ger. , companion) Cells, 

 small grbups of thin-walled cells 

 associated with Deuteu Cells, and 

 probably serving as conductors of 

 water (Limpricht) ; cf. Companion 

 Cells (Salmon). 



