NO. I. — GLOSSARY. 447 



Axilla, axil ; (literally the arm-pit,) the angle where the hase of a leaf or 

 branch joins the stem. 



Axillary, placed in the axilla or axil ; as the racemes of Brooklime, the 

 flowers of Thorn-Apple. 



Axis, the centre around which parts are arranged ; the line, real or ima- 

 ginary, which passes through any thing. 



B. 



Baccate, berried ; having a juicy succulent covering. 



Band-shaped, narrow, very long, with the margins parallel. 



Beak, a hard sharp point, resembling the beak of a bird ; as the legume of 



Fenugreek. 

 Bearded, having long weak hairs like a beard. 

 Bell-shaped. See Campanulate. 

 Berry, a pulpy fruit, containing several seeds. 

 Bicuspidate, having two points. 

 Bidentate, having two teeth. 

 Biennial ; a plant is said to be biennial which requires two years to mature 



its fruit and then dies ; as the Burdock, Foxglove, &c. 

 Bifarious, arranged in two opposite rows. 

 Bifid, divided down to the middle into two parts ; two-cleft ; as the stigma 



of Bugle, Foxglove, Ground Ivy. 

 Bifoliate ; applied to leaves when the common petiole is terminated by two 



leaflets growing from the same point. 

 Bilabiate, having two lips ; as the corolla of Ground Ivy, Marjoram, 



Rosemary. 

 Bilobed, divided into two lobes. 



Bilocular, having two cells ; or divided into two cells. 

 Binale, having two leaflets. 



Bipartite, divided nearly to the base into two parts. 

 Bipinnate, twice-pinnated; applied to pinnate leaves, when the leaflets 



themselves are pinnate; as in Burnet-Saxifrage, Caraway, Carrot, 



Chamomile, Fern. 

 Bipinnatifid, twice pinnatifid. See Pinnatifid. 

 Biserrate, twice serrated ; when the teeth or serratures of a leaf are again 



serrated. 

 Bistipulate, furnished with two stipulae. 



Bitemate, twice divided in three ; as the leaves of Fennel, Masterwort, &c. 

 Bitten, praemorse ; applied to roots when obtuse and irregular at the end as 



if bitten off. 

 Bivalved, two-valved. 

 Bractece, bracts ; small leaves, often coloured, generally entire, situated 



between the true leaves and the calyx, mostly near the latter. Each 



flower-stalk of the Foxglove is subtended by a bractea. See also Mar- 

 joram, Violet, and several others. 



