Azygospore 



OF BOTANICAL TERMS. 



Basin 



AZYG'OSPORE, a spore in certain 

 algoe and fungi resembling a 

 zygospore, but produced asex- 

 ually. 



AZ'YGOtfS, without a fellow or 

 corresponding part, as a leaflet 

 which does not have another 

 leaflet on the opposite side of 

 the rachis. 



BACCA, see Berry. 



BACCATE, berry like; pulpy. 



BACCATED, covered with ber- 

 ries, or bodies resembling ber- 

 ries. 



BAC§iF'EROUS, producing ber- 

 ries. 



BAcgfTORM, see Baccate. 



BA'CIlLAR, rod- or club-shaped, 

 like a bacillus; bacilliform. 



BACK, see Dorsum. 



BACTE'RIOIDS, protoplasmic 

 bodies endowed with Brown 

 ian movement, and resembling 

 bacteria. 



BALD, destitute of the usual cov- 

 ering, as of hair, foliage, etc. ; 

 destitute of beards or awns. 



BALtJS'TRA, sometimes applied 

 to fruits like the pomegranate. 



BAND, (1) a space between two 

 ridges on the fruit of Umbel 

 lifera;; (2) a broad stripe, es- 

 pecially if transverse. 



BAN'NER, see Vexillum. 



BARB, a sharp reflexed point on 

 an awn or other process; a 

 hair or other process having 

 such reflexed points, or with a 

 reflexed tip. 



BAR'BATE, see Bearded. 



BARBATED, see Bearded. 



BARBE, see Barb. 



BARBELLATE (diminutive of 

 Barbate), having minute barbs; 

 barbellulate. 



BARBEL'LULATE, see Barbel 



LATE. 



BAR BtJLE, a small barb, 

 BARK, the covering of the stem 

 and roofs of exogens, separated 

 from the wood by the cambi- 

 um. 

 BARRED, crossed by parallel 

 horizontal bands or lines. 



BAR'REN, unproductive; un- 

 fruitful; sterile, — said of a 

 plant or organ. The term "bar- 

 ren" is seldom applied except 

 to a plant as a whole, and even 

 then the term ' 'sterile" is more 

 often used. 



BA'SAL, pertaining to the base. 



BASE, the part of an organ by 

 which it is attached to its sup- 

 port. 



BASiDlOGENET'lC, borne on a 

 basidium. 



BASID'IOPHORE, a sporophore 

 bearing a basidium. 



BASID'IOSPORE, a spore borne 

 on a basidium, as those of 

 mushrooms. 



BAslD'iUM (pi. Basid'ia), one of 

 the branched cells on the 

 spore-bearing sui'face of mush- 

 rooms, etc., which bear the 

 spores. Compare Sterigma. 



BAS'IFlXED, attached by its 

 base, as an innate anther. 



BAsiF'UGAL, (1) proceeding 

 away from the base; upward; 

 acropetal; centrifugal (centrip- 

 etal when applied to the or- 

 der of inflorescence); (2) de- 

 rived from the base or situ- 

 ated at the base, as basifugal 

 growth in the leaves of certain 

 grasses. 



BAsiGYN'fUM, see Gynophore. 



BAs'lLAR, relating to or situated 

 at the base. 



BASIN, the depression at the 



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