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Biartfoitlate : twice jointed, or two-jointed ; scpnniting into two pieces. 



Biattriculate : iiaviiig two cars, as tiie leaf in H^. 96. 



Bicutlose: liaviuj:; two callosities or harder spots. 



Dicdiinctle : two-kccled, as tlie upper palea of Grasses. 



Dicii>ital (Biceps) : two-headed ; dividing into two parts at the top or bottom. 



Bicdiijmjiite : twice paired, as when a petiole forks twice. 



Bide'nlate: having two teeth (not twice or doubly dentate). 



Biennial: of two years' continuance; springing from the seed one season, 



flowering and dying the next ; p. 21. 

 Bifuiioiis : two-ranked ; arranged in two rows. 



Bifid: two-clefl to about the middle, as the petals of Mouse-ear Chickwced. 

 Bljolidate: a compound leaf of two leaflets; p. 66. 

 Bifurcate: twice forked ; or, more commonly, forked into two branches. 

 Bijngate: bearing two pairs (of leaflets, &c.). 

 Bilabiate: two-lipped, as the corolla of sage. &c , p. 105, fig. 209. 

 Bildinellate : of two plates {lamella), as the stigma of JMinmlus. 

 Biliiljed : the same as two-lobed. 

 Bildcular : two-celled; as most anthers, the pod of Fo.xglcvc, most Saxifrages 



(fig. 234), &c. 

 Binale : in couples, two together. 

 Bipartite: the Latin fonu of two-parted ; p. 62. 

 Bipinnate (leaf) : twice pinnate ; p. 66, fig. 130. 

 Bipinndtijid : twice pinnatifid, p. 64 ; that is, pinnatifid with the lobes again 



pinnatifid. 

 Biplkute : twice folded together. 



Bise'rial, or Biseriale : occupying two rows, one within the other. 

 Biserrate: doubly serrate, as wlien the teeth of a leaf, &c. are themselves serrate. 

 Bile'rnate: twice ternate ; i. e. principal divisions 3, each bcaiing 3 leaflets, &c. 

 Bladder!/: thin and inflated, like the calyx of Silcne inflata. 

 .B/(K/e of a leaf: its expanded jwrtion ; p 54. 



Boat-shaped : concave within and keeled without, in shape like a small boat. 

 Brdchiate: with opposite branches at right angles to each other, as in tha 



Maple and Lilac. 

 Bract (Latin, braclea). Bracts, in general, are the leaves of an inflorescence, 



more or less dirt"erent fiom ordinary leaves. Specially, the bract is the 



small leaf or scale from the axil of which a flower or its pedicel proceeds; 



p. 78 ; and a 

 Bractltt {hracteola) is a bract seated on the pedicel or flower-stalk ; p. 78, fig. 156. 

 Branch, p. 20, 36. 



Bristles : stiff", sharp hairs, or any very slender bodies of similar appearance. 

 Bristli/: beset with bristles. 

 BriLth-sluifycd : see aspeniilliform. 



Bryoloijij : that part of Botany which relates to Mosses. 

 Bud: a branch in its earliest or undeveloped slate ; p. 20. 

 Bud-sctiles, p. 22, 50. 



Bulb : a leaf-bud with fleshy scales, usnally subtciranean ; p. 45, fig. 73. 

 Bulbi/irous : bearing or producing bulbs. 

 Btilbose or bulboiv : bulb-like in shape, &.c. 



