GLOSSARY. 



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B. 



Baccate, berried, fleshy. 



Barred, crossed by a paler colour in spaces resem- 

 bling bars. 



Basilar, situated at the base of any thing, usually 

 applied to the embryo when situated at the bot- 

 tom of the seed. 



Beak, any thing which resembles the beak of a 

 bird, hard, sharp points ; in Aconitum the point 

 which ends the helmet or upper sepal. 



Beaked, having a beak. 



Bearded, having long hair like a beard. 



Beardless, destitute of a beard. 



Berry, a fleshy fruit, containing many seeds, as the 

 gooseberry and grape. 



Biauriculate, having two auricles. 



Bibracteolate, furnished with two small bracteas; 

 which see. 



Bibracteate, furnished with two bracteas. See 

 Bracteas. 



Bicallose, \ having two small callosities or protu- 



Bicallous, ) berances. 



Bicrenate, twice crenate. See Crenate. 



Bicuspidate, having two points. 



Bidentate, having two teeth. 



Biennial, a plant is biennial, which requires two 

 years to bear its fruit, and then dies. 



Bifarious, any thing placed in two opposite rows. 



Bifariously-imbricated, any thing placed in two op- 

 posite rows, as well as being laid over each other, 

 like the tiles of a house. 



Bifid, divided at the top in two parts, two cleft. 



Bifidly-umbelliferous, having an umbel of flowers 

 divided into two parts or divisions. 



Bifoliate, having two leaves or leaflets. 



Bifoveolate, having two hollows. 



Bifurcation, the division of a stem when it is 

 divided like a fork into two branches. 



Bifurcate, twice forked, or having two forks. 



Bigeminate, twin, each division bearing a pair of 

 leaflets. 



Bigibbous, K ; tv/0 p rotu b eranc e s . 



Bigibbose, ) 



Biglandular, having two glands. 



Biglobose, formed irtto two round heads. 



Bilabiate, having two lips. 



Bilamellate, \ having two plates or divided into two 



Bilammellate, f parts. 



Biligulate, having two liguhe, or strap-shaped ap- 

 pendages. 



Bilocular, containing two cells, or divided into two 

 cells, or departments. 



Bimaculate, having two spots of any colour. 



Binate, having two leaflets, twin. 



Biovulate, containing two ova, or young seeds ; seeds 

 before they are mature are called ova. 



Bipartite, divided into two parts. 



Bipinnate, twice pinnate. See Pinnate. 



Bipinnate-parted, divided in a bipinnate manner 

 but not to the base. 



Bipinnatifid, twice pinnatifld. See Pinnatifid. 



Biplicate, having two plaits. 



Birimose, having two longitudinal chinks, or fissures. 



Bisaccate, having two little sacks, bags, or pouches. 



Biscutate, resembling two bucklers. 



Biserrate, \ twice cut, like the teeth of a 



Biserrate-toothed, ) saw. 



Bistipulate, furnished with two stipulas. See Sti- 

 pulas. 



Bisulcate, having two furrows. 



Biternate, twice ternate. See Ternate. 



Bivalved, two valved. See Valved. 



Blanching, made white by being grown in a dark 

 place, or by being covered with any thing. 



Bland, fair, beautiful. 



Blight, a vague term, signifying a pestilence among 

 plants, caused by the attack of insects, or of para- 

 sitical fungi. 



Blistered, having the surface raised, as the skin is 

 when blistered. 



Brachiate, having arms or branches, usually placed 



Calyculate, 

 Ca< 



opposite to each other nearly at right angles with 

 the main stem, and crossing each other alter- 

 nately. 



Bracteate, having bracteas. 



Bracteolate, having small bracteas. 



Bracteoles, small bracteas. 



Bracteas, small leaves placed near the calyx on the 

 peduncle or pedicel. 



Bractless, destitute of bracteas. 



Branchlets, small branches. 



Bristles, stiff hairs. 



Bristly, covered with stiff hairs. 



Bristly-toothed, having teeth like bristles, or with 

 the teeth ending each in a bristle. 



Bud, the flower or leaves before expansion are said 

 to be in the bud. 



Bulbiferous, bearing bulbs. 



Bulbs, underground buds, resembling roots, con- 

 sisting of numerous fleshy scales, placed one over 

 the other. 



Burry, covered with hooked stiff hairs, like the 

 heads of the burdock. 



C. 



Caducous, falling off soon. 



Ctssious, grey. 



Ctespitose, growing in little tufts. 



Calcarate, spurred, or having a spur. 



Calceiform, formed like a little shoe. 



Calli, small callosities, or little protuberances. 



Callose, callous, hardened. 



Callously-glandular, having hardened glands. 



Callously-serrated, having hardened serratures. 



Calyciform, formed like a calyx. 



Calycine, of or belonging to the calyx. 



ving bracteas so placed as to re- 

 semble an external or additional 

 calyx. 

 Calyptra, literally an extinguisher, applied to the 



body which covers the theca in mosses j any 



thing in the shape of an extinguisher. 

 Calyptrate, resembling an extinguisher. 

 Calyptriform, shaped like an extinguisher. 

 Calyx, the outer envelope of a flower, as the corolla 



is the inner. 



Campanulate, shaped like a bell. 

 Canaliculate, channelled or furrowed. 

 Cancellate, latticed, resembling lattice-work. 

 Canescent, hoary, approaching to white. 

 Capillary, very slender, resembling a hair. 

 Capillaceous, very slender, resembling a hair. 

 Capillaceously-multifid, \ divided into many slender 

 Capillary-multifid, / hair-like segments. 

 Capitate, growing in a head ; a stigma is said to be 



capitate when it is large, round, and blunt. 

 Capitately-glomerate, growing in a clustered head. 

 Capitellate, ~\ growing in small heads ; a stigma is 

 Capitular, > said to be so when it is small, round, 

 Capitulate, ) and blunt. 

 Capituli, small heads. 

 Capsule, a dry fruit. 

 Capsular, like a capsule. 

 Carbonized, burned to coal. 

 Carina, a keel like that of a boat ; also the lower 



petal of a pea-flower. 

 Carinate, keel-shaped. 

 Carinately-winged, having a wing resembling a 



keel. 

 Carinately-concave, hollowed in such a manner as to 



resemble a keel externally. 

 Cariopsis,orCariopsides, a 1-celled, small, indehiscent 



pericarp, adhering to the seed which it contains, 



as the grain of grasses and clematis. 

 Carminative, medicines which promote perspiration. 

 Carnose, fleshy, thick substance. 

 Carpel, ~\ the small parts of which compound fruits 

 Carpels, V are formed, as those of Ranunculus, 

 Carpella, ) Pabnia, and Aconitum. 

 Carpelled, having carpels. 

 Carpology, the science which treats of the structure 



of fruits and seeds. 



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 ntrut-aiiiztt', \ 



ntral-a Js, 1 



ntral-column, ) 

 V. 



Cartilaginous, gristly. 



Cartilaginously- toothed, having gristly teeth. 



Cartilaginously-serrated, having gristly serratures. 



Caruncle, a small protuberance. 



Carunculate, having a caruncle. 



Cataplasm, a plaster. 



Catarrhal, of or belonging to a cold. 



Cathartic, purgativt. 



Catkin, inflorescence of the natural order Amentu- 



cea, as the willow. 



Caudate, tailed, having a process like a tail. 

 Caudex, the trunk or stem of palms and ferns. 

 Caudicula, a small membranous process, on which 



the pollen of orchideous plants are fixed. 

 Caulescent, acquiring a stem, having a kind of stem. 

 Caulicule, the little stem in the embryo which 



unites the cotyledons with the radicle. 

 Cauline, of or belonging to the stem. 

 Caustic, having a burning quality. 

 Cautery, that which burns. 

 Cellular, composed of cells. 

 Cell, the hollow part of a capsule, in which the 



seeds are lodged, and the part of anthers whicli 



contains the pollen. 

 Celled, having cells, 1-2-3 or 4-celled, having 1-2-3- 



or 4 cells or departments, and so forth. 



ihe column in the centre of fruits 

 ,. . ^, . 



? whlc > * e , Seed f are s me - 

 times attached, and sometunes 



the partitions. 

 Central-placenta, the column in the centre of fruits 



to which the seeds are attached. 

 Cephalic, medicinal to the head. 

 Ceraceous, wax-like. 



Cernuous, nodding, drooping, or pendulous. 

 Chaffy, bearing processes resembling chaff. 

 Chalaza, a spot on the seed, indicating where the 



vessels of the raphe terminate. 

 Channel-leaved, folded together, so as to resemble a 



channel for conducting water. 

 Channelled, having a channel or channels. 

 Charred, blackened by fire. 

 Chlorosis, the green sickness, a disease so called. 

 Chinks, longitudinal fissures. 

 Chinked, having longitudinal fissures. 

 Chrysalis-like, like the chrysalis of an insect. 

 Cilia, hairs like those of the eye-lash. 

 Ciliated, \ surrounded by hairs like those of the 

 Ciliary, / eye-lash. 

 Ciliately-toothed, having teeth like the hairs of the 



eye-lash. 



Ciliary-scabrous, having rough ciliated margins. 

 Ciliary-serrated j h . serratures like ci]ia , 

 Cihately-serrated, ) 



Ciliately-jagged, having unequal notches like cilia?. 

 Ciliately-plumose, having long hairs on the edges 



like the feathers of a quill. 



Cinereous, ash-coloured, or coloured like ashes, grey. 

 Cinereously-canescent, between white and ash-co- 



loured. 

 Cinereously-glaucous, between sea-green and ash- 



coloured. 



Cinereously -pubescent, covered with grey pubescence. 

 Cinereously-tomentose, covered with grey tomentum. 

 Cinereously-villous, covered with grey villi. 

 Cingalese, inhabitants of or belonging to Ceylon. 

 Circinate, \ curled round like a sharp crook, to 

 Circinnate, ) make a circle. 

 Circinal, resembling a circle. 

 Circinately-revolute, curled round like a circle. 

 Circinately-trochleate, curled round like a pully. 

 Cirrhose, Jtendrilled, having tendrils or claspers, 

 Cirrhous, ) as the pea. 

 Cirrhiferous, bearing tendrils or claspers. 

 Clammy, viscid, sticky. 



Clathrate, latticed, divided like lattice-work. 

 Clavate, \ club-shaped, shaped like a club, the thick 

 Clavated, ) end uppermost. 

 Clave/lose, having club-shaped processes. 

 Clavus, a name for the ergot, a disease in corn. 

 Claws, the unguis of petals, the narrow end. 

 Clawed, having claws. 



