Budding 



Burgundy Pitch 



embryonic branch as the primor- 

 dium of the young plant ; ~ Scales, 

 the coverings of a bud ; ~ Sport 

 = BUD -VARIATION ; ~ Variation, 

 changes of colour or form in plants 

 arising from a flower or leaf bud. 

 Adventitious-*', buds arising out 

 of the normal course or locality ; 

 Brood ^, = BROOD -BUDS ; Flower 

 "- , the inflorescence before expan- 

 sion, or a unit thereof ; Leaf-~, 

 an undeveloped leaf. 



Bud'ding, (1) propagation of a garden 

 form by inserting a bud or " eye " on 

 another stock ; (2) used also for ex- 

 pansion of the buds. 



Bud'let, "a little bud attached to a 

 larger one " (Crozier). 



Bulb, Bul'bus (Lat.), a modified bud 

 usually underground ; (1) na'ked 

 <~, bulbus squamosus, having scaly 

 modifications of the leaves, as 

 in the lily; (2) tunica'ted ~, 

 whose outer scales are thin and 

 membranous, as the onion or hya- 

 cinth ; (3) the so-called solid-', is 

 a CORM ; (4) the swollen base of the 

 etipe of the sporophore in Hymeno- 

 mycetes ; - Scale, one of the com- 

 ponents of a bulb. 



bulba'ceous, -ceus, (1) bulbous ; (2) 

 having bulbs. 



BuTbiceps (bulbus, a bulb, caput, a 

 head), a stem bulbous at base; bulbi- 

 f erous, -rus (fero, I bear), bulb-bear- 

 ing, as when bulbils are amongst the 

 florets of an inflorescence, or axils 

 of the leaves; Bul'bil, Bulbill'us, 

 Bulb'let, Bulb'ulus, (1) a small bulb, 

 usually axillary, as in Lilium bulbi- 

 ferum; (2) Bulbil is also applied, 

 (a) in some fungi to small pluricel- 

 lular bodies incapable of germina- 

 tion; (b) deciduous leaf -buds capable 

 of developing into a new bion or 

 brood-bud, in Archegoniatae ; Bul- 



bulb'ose, bulbo'sus, bulb'ous, having 

 bulbs or the structure of a bulb ; 

 bulbo'si pi'li, hairs with an in- 

 flated base; Bulbotu'ber, Gawler's 

 name for CoRat ; Bul'bule = Bulbil 

 (Crozier). 



bull'ate, bulla'tus (bulla, a bubble), 

 blistered or puckered, as the leaf 

 of the primrose ; Bullescen'tia 

 ( + escens), the state of being blis- 

 tered, as the Savoy Cabbage ; bul'- 

 liform (forma, shape), used of some 

 large thin-walled cells, occurring 

 on the epidermis of certain grasses 

 (Duval-Jouve). 



bunched, gibbous. 



Bun' die, a strand of specialized 

 tissue, variously modified ; -~ 

 Flange, communications between 

 the unbranched leaf -bundles of 

 Gymnosperms and the surrounding 

 tissues ; <~ Sheath, the enveloping 

 cylinder of closely united paren- 

 chyma: Bicollat'eral -~, when a 

 second bast-strand exists on the 

 inner, medullary, side of the wood 

 of the conjoint-bundle ; Cauline ~> , 

 confined to the stem ; Closed ~ , 

 destitute of cambium, the procam- 

 bium having become permanent 

 tissue ; Collat'eral ~, when the 

 wood and bast lie side by side ; 

 Com'mon-', that is, to stem and 

 leaf, becoming a leaf -trace ; Con- 

 cen'tric ~, when either the wood, 

 or the bast system surrounds the 

 other ; Conjoint <~ , consisting of 

 both wood and bast ; Corti'cal ~ , 

 peculiar to the cortical region ; 

 MedulTary ~ , the vascular bundles 

 occurring in the pith, when there 

 is a well - defined exterior ring ; 

 Open ~ , when the bundle possesses 

 a portion of cambium ; Ra'dial <~ , 

 having the strands of wood and bast 

 alternately as in roots ; Phloem ~ , 

 the bast portion ; Vasc'ular ~ , the 

 entire strand, consisting of liber or 

 bast portion (phloem) and tracheal 

 or wood-portion (xylem) in various 

 degrees ; Xylem ^ , the wood-por- 

 tion. 



Bunt, a common disease of the wheat 

 plant, from Tilletia Tritici, Winter. 



Bur, a prickly headed fruit, applied 

 to the chestnut, Arctium, and the 

 like ; bur'ry, resembling a bur. 



Bur'gundy Pitch, a resin from species 

 of Abies. 



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