GLOSSARY. 



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the first year of their growth, and 

 in the second bear seed, and then 

 die. 



Bifid, divided about halfway to the 

 base into two parts. 



Bilohedy divided into two lobes, as 

 the anthers of most flowers. 



Bipartite, deeply divided into two 

 parts, the incision extending be- 

 yond the middle. 



Bipinnate, having the leaflets on the 

 secondary petioles of a doubly 

 compound leaf arranged in a pin- 

 nate manner, the secondary pe- 

 tioles themselves being similarly 



Bipinnatifid, having the divisions in 

 a pinnatifid leaf themselves di- 

 vided in a pinnatifid manner. 



Bisaccate, having two bags or sacs. 



Biternate, having the leaflets of a 

 doubly compound leaf arranged 

 in a temate manner. 



Bloom, a whitish, waxy secretion 

 produced on the surface of some 

 fruits, as in the plum. 



Blunt, terminating in a rounded 

 manner, without tapering. 



Bony, hard and brittle, and of close 

 texture, as the stones of plums, etc. 



Bracts, the leaves more or less modi- 

 fied in form, which are seated on 

 the peduncles and pedicels : fre- 

 quently reduced to mere scales; 

 sometimes highly coloured. 



Bracteate, having bracts. 



Bracteoles, small bracts seated on 

 the flower-stalk. 



Bristle, any short or stiff" hair. 



Bristle - pointed, terminating gra- 

 dually in a fine point. 



Bush, a low shrub, densely branched 

 from the surface of the ground. 



CcBspitose, densely crowded in turf- 

 hke patches. 



Calyeiflores, a group of dicotyle- 

 dons, in wliich the stamens ad- 

 here to the calyx, whether they 

 are perigynous or epigynous. 



Calycine, of the nature or appear- 

 ance of a calyx. 



Calyx, the outermost whorl of the 

 perianth, composed of the sepals, 

 either free or cohering; in those 

 flowers which have only a single 

 floral whorl, it is generally consi- 

 dered a calyx rather than a corolla. 



Campanulate, beU-shaped. 



Capillary, hair-like, both as to size 

 and form. 



Capitate, applied to those slender 

 organs, such as the style, in which 

 the summit is swollen out, some- 

 what like the head of a pin. 



Capitule, an inflorescence consisting 

 of numerous flowers, sessile or 

 nearly so, collected into a dense 

 mass at the summit of a pe- 

 duncle. 



Capsule, a dry dehiscent seed-vessel, 

 with one or more cells, and many 



Carpel, one of the parts, whether 

 combined or distinct, which com- 

 pose the innermost of the four 

 sets of floral whorls, into which a 

 complete flower is separable. 



Cartilaginous, tough and hard, like 

 the skin of an apple pip. 



Cathin, a form of spiked inflores- 

 cence, in which the flowers are 

 unisexual and closely crowded, 

 and the place of each perianth is 

 suppUed by a bract. 



Cell, one of the hollow divisions of 

 the seed-vessel, or anther. 

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