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Basal : belonging or attached to the 



Base : that extremity of any organ by which it is attached to its support. 



Beaked : ending in a prolonged, narrow tip. 



Bearded: see barbate. Beard is sometimes used popularly for awn, 

 more commonly for long or stiff hairs of any sort. 



Bell-shaped : of the shape of a bell, as the corolla of Harebell. 



Berry : a fruit pulpy or juicy throughout, as a grape. 



Bi, (or Bis], in compound words : twice ; as 



Biarticulate : twice-jointed, or two-jointed ; separating into two pieces. 



Biauriculate : having two ears. 



Bicallose : having two callosities or harder spots. 



Bicarinate : two-keeled, as the upper palea of Grasses. 



Bicipital (Biceps] : two-headed ; dividing into two parts at the top or 

 bottom. 



B {conjugate: twice-paired, as when a petiole forks twice. 



Bidentate : having two teeth (not twice or doubly dentate.) 



Biennial : of two years' continuance ; springing from the seed one 

 season, flowering and dying the next. 



Bifarious : two-ranked ; arranged in two rows. 



Bifid : two-cleft to about the middle, as the petals of Mouse-ear Chick- 

 weed. 



Bifoliolate : a compound leaf of two leaflets. 



Bifurcate : twice forked ; or, more commonly forked into two, branches. 



Bijugate : bearing two pairs (of leaflets, etc.) 



Bilabiate : two-lipped,. as the corolla of sage, etc. 



BHamellate : of two plates (lamella?), as the stigma of Mimulus. 



Bilobed : the same as two-lobed. 



Bilocular: two-celled ; as most anthers, the pod of Foxglove, most Saxi- 

 frages. 



Binate : in couples, two together. 



Bipartite : the Latin form of two-parted. 



Bipinnate (leaf) ; twice pinnate. 



Bipinnatifid : twice pinnatifid ; that is, pinnatifid with the lobes again 

 pinnatifid. 



Biplicate : twice folded together. 



Btserial, or Biseriate : occupying two rows, one within the other. 



Bi serrate : doubly serrate, as when the teeth of a leaf, etc., are them- 

 selves serrate. 



Biternate : twice ternate ; i.e., principal divisions three, each bearing 

 three leaflets, etc. 



Bladdery : thin and inflated, like the calyx of Silene inflata. 



Blade of a leaf: its expanded portion. 



Boat-shaped : concave within and keeled without, in shape like a small 

 boat. 



