218 GLOSSARY OF BOTANICAL TERMS. 



BIFID, cleft to near the middle. 



BINATE, in pairs, 



BIPARTITE, divided to near the base. 



BIPINNATE, twice pinnate, divisions first pinnate, and these again 



pinnate a second time. 

 BIPINNATIFID, divisions first pinnatifid, these segments again 



pinnatifid. 



BOTHRENCHYMA, dotted or pitted vessels. 

 BRACT, a small leaf usually different from the others, seated on 



or at the base of a pedicel ; floral leaves. 

 BRACTEOLES, small bracts, situated between the true bracts and 



the flowers. 

 BRISTLES, stiff hairs. 



BUD, the flower or leaves before expansion. 

 BULBS, underground buds with fleshy scales. 

 BULB-LIKE, resembling bulbs, but solid, as in the Crocus. 

 BULBOUS-HAIRS, hairs with a round swelling at their base, 



CADUCOUS, falling off soon. 



CLERULEUS, of a blue colour. 



G/ESIOUS, with a pale blue bloom, bluish grey. 



C^SPITOSE, growing in tufts. 



CALCARATE, furnished with a spur. 



CALYX, the outer covering of the flower, usually green and leaf- 

 like, sometimes coloured, the segments are called sepals. 



CAMBIUM, a layer of vitally active delicate cells, lying between the 

 bark and the wood, from which the succeeding woody struc- 

 tures are developed, formative matter. 



CAMPANULATE, in the form of a small bell. 



CAMPYLOTROPAL, when the ovule is curved so that the micropyle, 

 hilum, and chalaza are nearly close together. 



CANALICULATE, furrowed or grooved into a small channel. 



CAPILLARY, having the form of a hair, finer than filiform. 



CAPITATE, flowers growing in close clusters ; having a knob as in 

 a pin. 



CAPITULUM, a head of sessile flowers, as in the Compositce. 



CAPREOLATE, having climbing organs. 



CAPSULE, a dry dehiscent seed vessel, one or several celled. 



CARINA, a keel ; shaped like a boat. 



CARPEL, the divisions of the ovary ; each cell is formed of a 

 modified leaf folded inwards, so that its edges meet, forming 

 either one carpel, as in the pea, or several united, as in the 

 blue-bell of our woods. 



CARPOPHORE, the prolonged portion of the axis above the base of 

 the flower or fruit to which the ovaries are united. 



CARTILAGINOUS, like cartile or gristle. 



CARYOPSIS, a dry one-seeded fruit, with its covering closely incor- 

 porated, consisting of a thin pericarp, as in the Grasses. 



CATKIN. See AMENTUM. 



