GLOSSARY. 



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Bulbiferous ; bearing or producing bulbs . 



B ulblets; little aerial bud like bulbs, with 

 fleshy scales, borne in the axils of 

 leaves, or on terminal peduncles. 



Bulbous ; formed of, or like, a bulb. 



Bullate; haying bubble-like convexities, 



resembling blisters. 

 JBicuspidatc ; ending in 2 cusps, or sharp Caducous; falling off immediately, or 



Berry; a pulpy vatveless fruit in which 



the seeds are imbedded. 

 Bi in composition, meaning two, or 



twice; as 



Bibractcate ; having two bracts. 

 Bibracteolate ; having 2 bractlets. 

 Bicarinate ; having 2 keels. 



points. 



Bidentate; furnished with 2 teeth. 

 Biennial; living or enduring 2 years. 

 Bifarious ; in 2 ranks, or pointing in 2 



directions. 



Bifid; two-cleft: split into 2 segments. 

 Bifoliate ; having or bearing 2 leaves. 



Bifurcate; forked; ending in 2 equal Cclyculate. ; having an additional (usually 



branches. 



Bigibbous; having 2 hunches, or rounded Calypira; the hood of Mosses. 



protuberances. 



Biglandular ; having 2 glands. 

 Bilabiate ; having 2 lips. 

 Bilamellate ; having 2 thin plates. 

 BOocular; having 2 cells. 

 Bipartiblc, ; separating, or separable, into 



2 parts. 



Bipartite,; 2-parted. 

 Bipinnatc leaf; twice pinnate; the com- 



mon petiole having opposite branches, Canesccnt ; hoary, with greyish- white 



and those branches bearing opposite 

 leaflets. 

 Bipinnatifid leaf; the common petiole 



bearing opposite pinnatifid segments. Capitate ; head shaped ; in a globular 



Birostrate ; having 2 beaks. 



Biserial ; in 2 rows, or sets. 



Bisetosc ; having 2 bristles. 



Bisulcate ; having 2 grooves, or farrows. 



Biternate leaf; the common petiole 3- 

 parted, and each division or branch 

 bearing 3 leaflets. 



Bivalved ; having 2 valves. 



Biventricose ; having 2 bellied or distend- 

 ed portions. 



Bloom; a fine greyish powdery coating 

 on certain fruits, &c. as Plums. 



Brachiate; having pairs of opposite spread- 

 ing branches, alternately crossing at 

 right angles. 



Bract ; a floral leaf; a leaf, more or less 

 modified, in the immediate vicinity of 

 a flower. 



Bracteate flowers ; furnished with bracts, 

 or floral leaves. 



Bracteoles, or bractlets; small bracts among 

 clustered florets. 



Bracttess ; destitute of bracts. 



Brancfdets ; small branches, or subdivis- 

 ions of branches. 



Bristles ; stiflRsh elastic hairs. 



Bud; a growing point, or undeveloped 



leaves (i. e. bud-scales). 



extremely abbreviated stem, clothed 

 with the bases of leaves, and radicating 

 beneath. 



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earlier than usual with similar organs. 



Calcarate ; spurred ; having a spur. 



Callous ; firm and gristle-like. 



Callus; a gristle-like tubercle, or sub- 

 stance. 



Calyciform ; shaped like a calyx. 



Calycinc ; belonging to a calyx. 



small) outer calyx, or calyculus. 



Calyx; the flower-cup, or outer (and 



sometimes the only) covering of a 



flower. 



Campanulate ; in the form of a bell. 

 Campytolropous ovule; where it is curved 



upon itself, bringing the apex near to 



the base. 



Canaliculate ; channelled, or furrowed. 

 Candicant; whitish. 



hairs. 



ipillaceous, or capillary, hair-like; long 



and slender like a hair. 



luster. 



Capitellatc ; in little heads. 



Capsular; resembling, or being, a capsule. 



Capsule ; a dry seedvessel, formed of sev- 

 eral carpels, usually opening by regular 

 valves, and definite seams. 



Carina ; a keel. Carinate ; keeled. 



Carnose ; fleshy ; more firm than pulp. 



Carpel; a little fruit; a partial pistil, 

 or constituent portion of a compound 

 ovary. 



Carpettary ; belonging to the carpel. 



Border; the summit, or upper spreading Carpophore,; the fruit- stalk of the carpels 

 part, of a calyx, or corolla. See limb. (usually of the Umbelliferae). 



Bowl-shaped; hemispherical and concave, Cartilaginous; firm yet flexible, like 

 like a common bowl. gristle. 



Caruncli; an excrescence, or appendage, 

 at the bilum of a seed . 



Caryopsis ; a grain, or fruit of the Grasses, 

 Cyperaceae, &c. in which the pericarp 

 is thin, indehiscent, and closely ad- 

 herent to the seed. 



Catkin ; a name for that mode of inflor- 

 escence otherwise called an Ament. 



Cauda; a tail. Caudate; having a tail- 

 like appendage. 



Caudidc ; the little tail, or stalk of the 

 pollen-mass, in the Orchids. 



Caulescent; having more or less of an 

 evident stem. 



Cauline ; belonging to the stem. 



axis, covered with the rudiments of Cellular ; made up of little cells, or cavi- 



ties, formed of membranaceous sacs. 



Bulb; a thickened subterranean bud, or Cettular plants; the lower orders of plants 



(including Mosses, and those below 

 them) composed exclusively of cellular 

 tissue. 



