318 GLOSSARY. 



Bilabiata corolla, a corolla with two lips. 



Biioburri/b/n/m, a leaf consisting of two lobes. 



Binata,yb//c, a digitate leaf, consisting of two foliola. 



Bipartitumyb/zww, a leaf divided into two segments. 



Bipinnatumyb/Htt?*, doubly winged, when the folioles of a 

 pinnate leaf are pinnate. 



Biternatumjfo/w/7ft, when there are three folioles on a petio- 

 le, and each foliole is ternate ; as in Epimedium. 



Bivalve pericarjnum, consisting of two valves, as in the Sili- 

 qua and Legumen. 



Brachiatus caulis, branching in pairs ; each pair standing at 

 right angles with those above and below. 



Brachium, the arm, tenth degree in the Linnaan scale for 

 measuring plants, being twenty-four Parisian inches. 



Bractea, a floral leaf, these are generally of a different shape 

 and colour from the other leaves of the plant, and are al- 

 ways seated near the fructification. 



Bracteatus, having a bractea growing out of it. 



Bulbiferus caulis t a stalk bearing bulbs, as in a species of Lily 

 called Lilium bulbiferuin. 



Bulbosa radix, a bulbous root ; it is either squamosa, scaly, 

 as in Lilium ; tunicata, coated, as in Cepa ; duplicata, 

 double, as in Fritillaria ; solida, as in Tulipa. 



Bullatumyb//m, when the surface of the leaf rises above 

 the veins, so as to appear like blisters. 



Caducus calyx, falling off ; a term signifying the shortest time 



of duration, falling off at the first opening of the flower. 

 Calamariifc, a reed, and order of plants in the Fragmenta me- 



thodi natural is of Liinn&us. 

 Calcaratum nectariwn, a kind of nectarium resembling a 



spur, as in the Delphinium. 

 Caliculatus calyx, a little calyx added to a larger one, as in 



Coreopsis, Leontice, Sec. 

 Calycanthemi, a calyx, an order of plants in the Fragmenta 



methodi naturalis of Lintucus. 

 jCaKptra, a veil, in mosses, where it is placed over the An- 



thera, or Theca. 

 Calyx, a flower-cup, of which there are the following kinds, 



viz perianthium, involucrum, amentum, spatha, gluma, 



calyptra, and volva. 

 Campanacei, an order of plants in the Fragmenta methodi' 



naturalis of Limuens. 



Campanulata 



