BELLIS, CAMPANULA. 379- 



172. BELLIS. 49. 55. 



Exotic. 



peren"ni$ (daisy, w. & p. Ap. 4), leaves obovate, crenate ; scape naked, 1 

 flowered. Grows wild in cultivated fields in Pittsfield, Mass. 



61. BERBERIS. 54. 78. 



vulga'ris (barberry, y. M. > ), (branches punctate ; prickles mostly in threes ,- 

 leaves obovate, remotely serrate ; flowers racemed. 

 52. BETA. 12. 29. 



Exotic, 

 vulga'ris (beet. g. Au. <J), flowers heaped together; lower leaves ovate. 



1912. BETULA. 50. 99. 



populifo'lia (white birch, poplar birch. Ju. > ), leaves deltoid, long acuminate,, 

 unequally serrate, very glabrous ; scales of the strobile with rounded lateral 

 lobes ; petioles glabrous. 3040 f. 



132. BIGNONIA. 40. 45. 



radi'cans (trumpet flower. O. r. & y. Ju. * ), leaves pinnate ; leafets ovate, 

 toothed, acuminate ; corymb terminal ; tube of the corolla thrice as long as 

 the calyx ; stem rooting. Most beautiful climbing shrub. One variety, 

 fiammea, has yellow scarlet flowers ; another variety, coccinea, has bright 

 'scarlet flowers- Cultivated. S. 



12. BLITUM. 12. 29. 



capita'tum (strawberry blite. O. r. J. ), heads in a terminal spike, not inter- 

 mixed with leaves ; leaves triangular, toothed. 15 i. S. 



216. BOLETUS. 58. 1. 



ignia'rius, dilated, smooth, cuticle in ridges ; pileus hard, becoming dark at 

 the base, at the margin cinnamon colour, beneath yellowish white. Grows 

 on trunks. General form like a horse's hoof. It is called touch-wood. 



51. BORAGO. 41. 42. 



ojficina'lis (borage, b. Ju. ), leaves alternate ; calyx spreading. 

 142. BRASSICA. 39. 63. 



Exotic. 



ra'pa (turnip. 3 ), root caulescent, orbicular, depressed, fleshy ; radical leaves 

 rough ; cauline ones very entire, smooth. Var. ruta-baga, has a turbinate, 

 sub-fusiform root. 



olera'cea (common cabbage, including all the varieties caused by culture. $ ), 

 root caulescent, terete, fleshy ; leaves smooth, glaucous, repand lobate. 



32. BRIZA. 4. 10. 



me'dia (quaking grass, rattle-snake grass ? E. J. 4), panicle erect ; spikelets 

 heart ovate, about 7 flowered ; calyx smaller than the flowers. 1 f. Proba- 

 bly introduced. 



132. BUCHNERA. 40. 34. 



america'na (blue-hearts. O. b. Au. 4)j stem simple-; leaves lanceolate, sub-den- 

 tate, rough, 3 nerved ; flowers remote, spiked. In the herbarium this plant 

 becomes black. 1 f. &. 



111. CACTUS. 13. 85. 



opun"tia (prickly pear. E. y. J. 4), proliferous ; articulations compressed, ovate ; 

 bristles fascicular. The plant appears like a series of thick succulent leaves, 

 one growing from the top of another. S. 



17_4. CALENDULA. 49. 55. 



Exotic, 

 o/wina'lis (potmarygold. y. ), seed keeled, muricate, incurved. 



1912. CALLA. 2. 7. 



jvdu'stris (water arum. O. w. J. 4), leaves sub-roundish, heart form, acute ; 

 spatha ovate, cuspidate, spreading when mature. Grows in wet places. 



1213. CALTHA. 26. 61. 



palu'stris (O. y. Ap. 4), stem erect ; leaves cordate, sub-orbicular, acute cre- 

 nate. 1218 i. 



51. CAMPANULA. 29. 52. 



rotundifo'lia (flax, bell-flower, hair-bell. O. b. J. 4), glabrous ; radical leaves 

 heart reniform, crenate ; cauline ones linear, entire ; panicle lax, few flower- 

 ered; flowers nodding. 



