Bothrenchyma 



OF BOTANICAL TERMS. 



Brownian 



MENCLATUKE, and BOTANICAL ! 



Terminology. 



BdTHREN'CHYMA (obs.), see \ 

 Pitted Tissue. 



BdT'RtJs, an old term for a clus- 

 ter like that of the grape. 



B&T'RYOID, having the form of l 

 a bunch of grapes; botryoidal; 

 botryose. 



BdT'RYOSE, see Botryoid. 



b6tRY0IDAL, see Botryoid. 



BOT'TLE-SHAPED, see Lageni- 



FOHM. 



B6Tu"LI-F0RM, see Allantoid. 



BRACH'lATE, applied to branch- 

 es which are decussate and 

 spreading, as in the ash, and 

 sometimes improperly to those 

 which are long and widely 

 spreading, but not decussate. 



BRACHYP'ODOtJS, short-stalked. 



BRACT, a leaf of an inflorescence, 

 generally subtending a flower 

 or flower-branch. Bracts are 

 intermediate in position be- 

 tween foliage leaves and floral 

 leaves, and are usually much 

 smaller than the ordinary 

 leaves, and in other respects 

 more or less modified. 



BRAC'TEA (pi. Brac'teii), see 

 Bract. 



BRACTEAL, of the nature of a 

 bract. 



BRAC'TEATE, furnished with 

 bracts; subtended by a bract 

 or bracts; brae ted. 



BRACTE'OLA (pi. Bracteolse), see 

 Bractlet. 



BRAC'TEOlATE, furnished with 

 bractlets. 



BRAC'TEOLE, see Bractlet. 



BRAc'TEOSE, having many or 

 conspicuous bracts. 



BRACT'LET, a small bract, or 

 bract upon a pedicel or second- 

 ary branch of an inflorescence. 



BRACT'LESS, without bracts. 



BRAIRD, to germinate. (Scotch.) 



BRANCH (n.), a division of a stem 

 or other elongated organ; sec- 

 ondary axis. 



BRANCH (v. i.), to produce 

 branches; to ramify. 



BRANCH'LfiT, a little branch or 

 subdivision of a branch; twig. 



BREAK (v. i.) (Hort.): (1) to de- 

 part widely from the type and 

 suddenly produce a new vari- 

 ety (nearly the same as sport); 

 (2) to " bolt " or run prema- 

 turely to seed, as a biennial the 

 first year; (3) to put forth new 

 buds or leaves. 

 BREAST -WOOD (Hort.), branches 

 which project outward from a 

 wall or espalier. 

 BREATHING-PORE, see Stoma. 

 BREED, see Race. 

 BRIDLES, strings of protoplasm 

 which often connect the nu- 

 cleus with the layer of proto- 

 plasm next the cell wall. 

 BRIS'TLE, a stiff, short hair or 



hair-like body. 

 BRIS'TLE-POINT'ED, ending in a 

 bristle; terminating gradually 

 in a fine sharp point, as the 

 leaves of many mosses. 

 BRlS TLY, beset with bristles. 

 BROOD'-BUD, a deciduous leaf- 

 bud capable of growing into a 

 new plant, such as the bulbils 

 of the tiger-lily and the decidu- 

 ous buds of certain lycopodi- 

 ums; also applied to the sore- 

 dium of lichens. 

 BROOD-CELL, any reproductive 

 unicellular body produced 

 asexually which separates from 

 the parent plant, as the gonidia 

 of_fungi. 

 BROOD'-GEM'MA, see Gemma. 

 BROWNLAN MOVEMENT, a 

 trembling movement common 

 to all minute particles sus- 



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