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Hibbert Bean is Phaseolus lunatus, (same 

 as Lima Bean.) Horse Bean is Canavatia 

 gladiata. Horse-eye Bean is Mucuna urens. 

 Inga Bean is the pod of the Bastard 

 Cassia. Malacca Bean is the seed of 

 Semecarpus anacardium. Mesquit Bean is 

 the seed of Prosopis glandulosa. Pigeon 

 Bean is the small-seeded field Bean. 

 Ham's Horn Bean is Dolichos bicontortis. 

 Bed Bean is Vigna unguiculata. Sea Bean, 

 Florida Bean, a common name for the 

 seed of Eutada scandens and of Ormosia 

 dasycarpa. Seaside Bean is Canavalia 

 obtusifolia and of Vigna luteola. Sugar 

 Bean is Phaseolus saccharatus and P. luna- 

 tus. Sword Bean is Eutada scandens and 

 Canavalia gladiata. Tick Bean is the com- 

 monfieldBean, Faba vulgaris. Tree Bean 

 of Australia is Bauhinia Hookerii. Yam 

 Bean is Dolichos tuberosus. Year Bean is 

 Phaseolus vulgaris. Vanilla Bean is Va- 

 nilla planifolia, etc. 



Bearded. Having long hair like a beard. 



Beardleted. Having small awns. 



Bedding. This term is used by florists, 

 mostly when plants are set out in what is 

 known as the " Carpet," " Kibbon Line," 

 or " Massing in Color " style of decorative 

 planting. The "Carpet Style" is that 

 produced by planting low-growing plants 

 of different colors and forms of leaves, 

 mainly succulent plants. Sedums, Eche- 

 verias, and Sempervivums are used for 

 the purpose. To form carpet-like patterns, 

 they must be such plants as present a 

 smooth, well-defined color,and not exceed- 

 ing three or four inches in height. To 

 produce the proper effect by this style of 

 planting the plants must be set close 

 enough to form a mass, covering the soil 

 completely up, or the effect will not be 

 so good. Bedding in " ribbon lines " is 

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or walks, in widths from, one to ten feet, 

 as desired, the plants used being such as 

 to give the most pleasing contrast in 

 color. The plants usually selected are 

 such as will either form a slope to the 

 walk by planting the highest at the back 

 with the lowest growing in front, or else, 

 if the line is a wide one, such as, by plac- 

 ing the highest plants in the center and 

 the others on each side, will slope to each 

 side of the line. But to keep the lines of 

 color well defined and smooth, the plants 

 must be carefully pinched back, so as to 

 keep each line to its proper height. Bed- 

 ding by " massing in color " is on the 

 same principle, only that, instead of the 

 plants being planted in lines, they are set 

 in contrasting masses of different colors, in 

 any number of shades desired, though 

 the effect is most marked when but few 

 colors are used in one bed. Large beds 

 are often formed of one color, such as 

 scarlet, maroon, blue, pink, or yellow, 

 which, seen at a distance, in contrast 

 with the green of the lawn, is by many 

 more admired than when the colors are 

 placed together. 



Bedeguar. Sweet-brier sponge ; a sponge- 

 like gall or excrescence on the branches 

 and leaves of some Roses, coated with 

 fibrous .expansions of the tissue. This 

 appearance is occasioned by the punc- 

 ture of a Gall-fly. 



Begoniacece, (Begoniads.) A natural order 

 of dicotyledonous plants, belonging to 

 the monochlamydeous (which see) sub- 

 class of De Candolle. Lindley places the 

 order in his Cucurbital (Cucumber) Alli- 

 ance. The order contains herbaceous 

 plants or succulent under-shrubs. The 

 leaves have an oblique form, and are 

 placed alternately on the stem, having 

 stipules at their base. The flowere con- 



