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Bracteate, furnished with bracteae. 



Bracteolce, bractlets ; very small bracteae. 



Branchlets, small branches. 



Bristles, short stiff hairs. 



Bristly, covered with stiff hairs ; as the fruit of Carrot. 



Buckler -shaped, scutate; having the figure of the ancient small round 



buckler. 

 Bud, the rudimentary state of branches, leaves, and flowers, consisting of 



imbricated scales. 

 Bulbiferous, bulb-bearing, as the Lily. 

 Bulbils, little bulbs which form in the axis of the stem and leaf of some 



plants and fall off spontaneously. 

 Bulbs, underground buds resembling roots, and consisting of mimerous fleshy 



scales imbricated over each other. 

 Butterfly shaped. See Papilionaceous. 



C. 



Caducous, falling off soon ; as the calyx of Celandine, Poppy, &c. 



Ccesious, greyish. 



Calcarate, spurred, or spur-shaped. 



Calycine, of or belonging to a calyx. 



Calyx, the outer envelope of a flower, consisting of several leaves, more or less 



united by their margins or distinct, usually of a green colour, and less 



delicate than the inner series or petals. 

 Campanulate, shaped like a bell ; applied to a calyx or corolla in which the 



tube is inflated and gradually swells into the limb ; as the corolla of 



Bindweed, Lily, Deadly Nightshade. 

 Capillary, very slender, resembling a hair ; as the filaments of many 



stamens. 

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



capitate when it is large, obtuse, and round. 

 Capsule, a dry, many-seeded fruit, opening by valves ; as in Colchicum, 



Foxglove, &c. 

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



flower. 

 Carinate, keel-shaped. 

 Cariopsis, a small, one-celled, indehiscent pericarp, adhering to the seed, as 



in grasses. 

 Carpels, the small parts of which compound fruits are formed. See Crow- 



foot. The two pieces into which the fruit of umbelliferous plants sepa- 

 rates are frequently called carpels ; as in Caraway. 

 Cartilaginous, gristly ; hard and tough ; as the coat of some seeds. 

 Caruncle, a small protuberance. 

 Catkin, see Amentum. 

 Caudate, tailed ; having a process like. a tail. 



