bombycinus 



bracteolate 



into fruit, as flax when the capsule 

 is formed. 



bomby'cinus (Lat.), silky, feeling as 

 smooth as silk. 



bo'ny, of a close and hard texture, as 

 the stones of plums, etc. 



bord'ered, having a margin distinct 

 ' in colour or texture from the rest ; 

 ~ Pit, a pit in which the margin 

 projects over the thin closing mem- 

 brane, as in coniferous wood ; ~ 

 Pore, is the same thing. 



borr'agoid, from the genus Borago, 

 applied to a form of inflorescence 

 which finds its fullest development 

 in Anchusa, an extreme case of 

 extra-axillary inflorescence (K. 

 Schumann). 



Boss, a protuberance ; bossed, with a 

 rounded surface having a projec- 

 tion in its centre. 



bost'rycnoid (/3o<rr/3i;, a ringlet, eZ5os, 

 resemblance), having the form of a 

 BOSTRYX ; -* Cyme, a sympodial 

 branch system in which the right 

 or left hand branch is always the 

 most vigorous, a helicoid cyme j 

 ~ Dicnot'omy, a dichotomy or 

 repeated forking of an inflores- 

 cence, within the previous defini- 

 tion ; Bost'ryx, a uniparous, heli- 

 coid cyme. 



botanic (pordvr), a herb), pertaining 

 to the knowledge of plants ; <- 

 Gar'den, a garden especially devoted 

 to the culture of plants for scientific 

 ends ; Bot'anist, a student of plant 

 life, in any of its departments ; 

 bot'anize, (1) to seek for plants in 

 their places of growth ; (2) to study 

 actual plants ; Botanol'ogy (\6yos, 

 discourse) = BOTANY ; Bot'any, the 

 study of the vegetable kingdom in 

 all its divisions, its classification, 

 morphology, physiology, and eco- 

 nomics. 



Bothrench'yma (|8o0/>os, a pit, ^yxu/Aci, 

 that poured in), tissue composed of 

 dotted or pitted ducts or cells. 



Bot'rus (Crozier) = BOTRYS. 



bot'ry-cy'mose (/36rpi;s, a bunch of 

 grapes ; Acfytct, a wave), racemes or 

 any botryose clusters cymosely 



aggregated; bot'ryoid, botryoid'al 

 (eWos, resemblance), like a cluster 

 of grapes ; bot'ryose, botryo'sus 

 racemose ; Bot'rys, a raceme. 



Bottom-yeast, or Low-yeast, the yeast 

 which forms at the bottom of the 

 vats, in German, "Unterhefe." 



bot'uliform, botuliform'is (botulus, a 

 sausage forma, shape), sausage- 

 shaped, allantoid. 



Bouillon (Fr.) meatbroth, used for 

 cultures. 



bourgeon (Fr., in English pr. bur'jun), 

 to bud or sprout. 



Brach'eids (Tschirch) = BRACHYSCLE - 

 REIDS. 



brachia'lis (brachium, the fore-arm), 

 a cubit long, roughly about 18 

 inches ; bra'chiate, brachia'tus, 

 when branches spread and widely 

 diverge. 



brachy (ppaxi>s) = short, used in Greek 

 compounds. 



bracnybiostigmat'ic (/3paxi>s, short, 

 fttos, life, 0-Ttyfji.a, a spot), a term pro- 

 posed by Delpino to express stigmas 

 which are short lived, withering 

 before their proper anthers ripen, 

 protogynous ; brachydod'romous 

 (5/)o/tos, a course), with looped veins 

 (Kerner), cf. BROCHIDODROMUS ; 

 brachyp'odous (TTOI^S, ?ro5os, a foot), 

 having a short stalk or foot ; 

 Brachyscle'reids (<rK\ijp6s, hard), 

 stone-cells, the sclereids in barks 

 and fruits (Tschirch) ; Bracnytme'- 

 ma (r/jirjfia, section), a disc-shaped 

 cell, which by its rupture sets free 

 a gemma in Bryophytes (Correns). 



Bract, Bract' ea (Lat., a thin plate of 

 metal), the modified leaves inter- 

 mediate between the calyx and the 

 normal leaves ; Bract -scale, in 

 Coniferae, a scale of the cone above 

 which lies the seed-bearing scale ; 

 bract' eal, of the nature of a bract ; 

 bract'eate, bractea'tus, provided 

 with bracts ; bracteif erous (fero, I 

 bear), bearing bracts ; bractea'nusZ 

 formed of bracts ; Bract'eole, Brac- 

 te'ola, (1) a bractlet, or small 

 bract, (2) a prop hy 11 ; bract' eolate, 

 bracteola'tuA, having bractlets ; 



