Bizzarla 



(SUPPLEMENT) 



Bulgarine 



cally two chromosomes in each of 

 the apparent chromosomes, in 

 nuclear reduction divisions. 

 Bizzari'a (Ital., extravagant whim), 

 a hybrid between the orange and 

 the citron which has the character 

 of both in juxtaposition, but with- 

 out blending (Heinig). 



Blast'ochores (xw/>fc, separate), plants 

 distributed by offshoots (Clements); 

 blastogen'ic (7^05, offspring), em- 

 ployed by Weismann for those 

 characters which have originated 

 from changes in the germ (L. H. 

 Bailey) ; Blastoma'nia (fiavid, mad- 

 ness), the production of an abnor- 

 mal number of leaf -shoots (A. 

 Braun). 



Blending, a hybrid formed by the 

 crossing of races (Heinig); Ger., 

 Blendling. 



Blepharoplas'toid (eI5os, resem- 

 blance), a body which appears 

 near the nuclear spindle in Mar- 

 silia, and divides during the resting 

 stage of the nucleus, disappearing 

 soon afterwards (Shaw). 



Bol'etol, Bertrand's name for the blue 

 colouring matter in certain Fungi, 

 as Boletus. 



bom'bysine (Heinig) =BOMBYCINUS. 



boragina'ceous, belonging to or re- 

 sembling the genus JBorago or its 

 allies. 



Bo'rer, the penetrating root of a 

 parasite (De Bary). 



Bot'any, add, (2) also used for a 

 text-book or local-flora. 



Bound'ary Cell, Ger., Grenzzelle = 

 HETEROCYST. 



Brach'eid, Tschirch's suggested ab- 

 breviation of his own term 

 BBACHYSCLEREID. 



Brach'yblast (0\a<rrdj, a bud), Har- 

 tig's term for a spur, or short 

 branch; also spelled Brach'yoblast. 



brachyclad'ous, -dus (/cXddos, a 

 branch), applied by Russow to 

 those species of Sphagnum which 

 bear short branches ; brachyphyl- 

 1'ous (<t>v\\ov, a leaf), short-leaved. 



bracnysty'lous ( + STYLB), a synonym 



of MIOROSTYLOUS. 



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Bract-cell, used for certain cells on 

 the branchlets of Chara. 



Bract'eole, add, (3) a postical bract 

 of Hepaticae (Spruce). 



brad'yschist (jS/?a5i>y, slow, (rxurrbs, 

 split), when in a brood mother- 

 cell successive nuclear divisions 

 are completed before cell-division 

 (Hartog). 



brassica'ceous (Brassica, + aceous), 

 resembling the genus Brassica, or 

 belonging to it. 



Braun's Series, the same as FIBONACCI 

 Series. 



Bridge, a narrow band of tissue con- 

 necting larger masses of the same 

 (Kearney) ; bridging, applied to 

 certain species which act as inter- 

 mediate hosts of Fungi, thus 

 breaking down immunity. 



Bro'melin, a proteolytic enzyme oc- 

 curring abundantly in the juice of 

 the pine-apple, which is a member 

 of the Bromeliaceae, whence the 

 name. 



Brot'ium, or Brot'ion (pporos, mortal), 

 a succession of plants due to human 

 agency ; Brot'ochores, -ae (xwpis, 

 separate), dispersion by man (Cle- 

 ments). 



Brush, applied to the young fruit 

 of the hop, when the stigmas are 

 protruding. 



Bry' ogams, Bryogam'ia (7a'/*oy, mar- 

 riage), term proposed by Caruel 

 for the Bryophytes ; Bryo'ma, the 

 vegetative substance of Mosses ; 

 bryophyt'ic, pertaining to BRYO- 

 PHYTES. 



Bud-conn, the root-system of most 

 herbaceous plants ( J. Smith) ; ~ 

 -gall, Kerner's term for a gall 

 which involves several or all the 

 members of a shoot, and may be 

 leafless or leafy ; Bud'dage, propa- 

 gation by buds (L. H. Bailey). 



Bulb, add, Plu'mule- ~ , bulb produced 

 direct from the seed ; Run'ner ~ , 

 bulb arising from a stolon (Blod- 

 gett). 



Bul'garine, Zopf 's term for an orange 

 pigment produced by Bulgaria 

 polymorpha, Wett. 



