Balanophorin 



(SUPPLEMENT) 



Berry-cone 



Balanoph'orin, a waxy substance 

 which occurs in quantity in the 

 stems of certain species of Langs- 

 dorffia, a genus of Balanophoreae, 

 whence the name. 



ballis'tic, or balis'tic (ballista, a 

 catapult) Fruits, used by Kerner to 

 describe those fruits which dis- 

 charge their seeds elastic ally ; 

 catapult-fruits. 



Bands, add, (3) in the fruit of Zostera 

 minor, certain marks, termed by 

 Reichenbach PROCESSUS. 



Bark - parench'yma, the same as 

 cortex-parenchyma. 



Bar'riers, Clements's term for the 

 limiting forces which hinder dis- 

 persion ; these may be biological'-' , 

 due to the habit of the plant or its 

 rivals, or physical <~, such as 

 mountains, deserts, seas, etc. 



basid'ial, relating to a BASIDIUM ; - 

 Lay'er, the structure in Agarics 

 which produces or bears the 

 basidia; Basidioli'chenes, Lichen- 

 forming Basidiomycetes ; Basid'- 

 ium, add, (2) employed by Thaxter 

 for the swollen attachment of the 

 conidium to the conidiophore in 

 Basididbolus, Eidam. 



basigam'ic, = BASIGAMOUS. 



basiplas'tic (w\a<rTos, moulded), 

 Prantl's term for those leaves 

 whose permanent tissue appears 

 first at the apex, the lower portion 

 continuing longer as meristem. 



bassorinog'enous, (yewdw, I produce), 

 producing BASSORIN ; ^ Lay'er, 

 the tissue concerned in the pro- 

 duction of this substance. 



Bastardem'bryospenn (<nrtpfj.a, a 

 seed), MacMillan's term for any 

 plant with parthenogenetic em- 

 bryo, the effective pollen derived 

 from another plant or variety ; 

 Bastarden'dosperm, a similar plant 

 with parthenogenetic endosperm, 

 the effective pollen arising from 

 another individual or variety. 



Bast-i'slands, another name for 

 PHLOEM-ISLANDS ; ~ Nerves, libri- 

 form cells in the leaf of Najas 

 graminea, Delile ; ~ Parench'yma, 



phloem parenchyma; Bays = 

 MEDULLARY RAYS. 



Bath'mism (/3a0/^s, a step or degree), 

 Cope's term to denote the force or 

 energy of growth. 



bathyb'ic, applied to the deepest 

 plankton (Forel) ; bathypelag'io ( + 

 PELAGIC) ; plankton companies 

 which daily descend from the 

 surface (Forel) ; bathyph'ilu8(0iXew, 

 I love), dwelling in lowlands ; 

 Bathyphy'tia (<f>vTbv, a plant), low- 

 land plant formations ; Bathy- 

 phy'ta, the plants of a lowland 

 association (Clements). 



batolog'ical, adj. of BATOLOGT. 



bay, dun-colour ; an equivalent of 

 BADIUS. 



Beglei'ter (Ger., companion) Cells, 

 small groups of thin-walled cells 

 associated with DEUTER CELLS, and 

 probably serving as conductors of 

 water (Limpricht) ; cf. COMPANION 

 CELLS (Salmon). 



Belt's Corpus'cles, Scbimper's expres- 

 sion for the FOOD-BODIES of certain 

 species of Acacia used by ants as 

 food. 



bennettit'ean, resembling the fossil 

 genus Bennettites. 



Benth'on, or Benth'os (pcv0os, depth, 

 bottom), the vegetation at the 

 bottom of the sea, lakes, or streams ; 

 the fixed growth as distinct from 

 the plankton or floating growth ; 

 Forel distinguishes necton'ic ~, 

 organisms which float freely ; 

 ses'sile ~, those which remain 

 attached and vagi! ^, wandering 

 organisms ; Ben'thophyte (tyvrov, a 

 plant), a plant whose habitat is at 

 the bottom. 



ben'zoloid, a group of scents de- 

 rived from aromatic bodies, as 

 eugenol or oil of cloves, and in the 

 flowers of Heliotrope, Lilac, etc. 

 (Kerner). 



Berge'ria, formerly considered a 

 genus of fossils, now applied to a 

 lepidodendroid stem when the 

 epidermis has been stripped off 

 (Scott). 



Ber'ry-cone, a cone whose scales have 



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