GLOSSARY. 



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. 

 Hi- (or Bis)y in compound words : twice ; as 



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

 Biaurfculafe : having two ears. 

 Bicallose: liaving two callosities or harder spots. 

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

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



bottom. 

 BicOnJugate : twice paired, as when a petiole forks twice. 

 Bid€ntate: having two teeth (not twice or doubly dentate). 

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



flowering and dying the next. 

 Bifid : two-cleft to about the middle. 

 Bifoiiolate : a compound leaf of two leaflets. 



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

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

 Bildmellate : of two plates [lamellce), as the stigma of Mimulus. 

 Bildbed : the same as two-lobed. 



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

 frages, &c. 

 Binate : in couples, two together. 

 Bipartite : the Latin form of two-parted. 

 Bipinnate (leaf) : twice pinnate. 

 Bipinndtifid : twice pinnatifid, that is, pinnatifid with the lobes again 



pinnatifid. 

 Biplicate : twice folded together. 



Bis&ial, or Bise'riate : occupying two rows, one within the other. 

 Biserrate : doubly serrate, as when tlie teeth of a leaf, &c. are themselves 



serrate. 

 Biternace: twice ternate; Le. principal divisions 3, each bearing 3 leaflets. 



&c. 

 Bladdery : thin and inflated. 

 Blade of a leaf : its expanded portion. 



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

 Bract (Latin, bractea). Bracts, in general, are the leaves of an inflorescence, 



more or less different from ordinary leaves. Specially, the bract is the 



small leaf or scale from the axil of which a flower or its pedicel pro' 



ceeds ; and a 

 Bractlet {bracteola) is a bract seated on the pedicel or flower-stalk. 

 Bristles: stiff, sharp hairs, or any very slender bodies of similar appear 



ance. 

 Bristly : beset with bristles. 



Bud : a branch in its earliest or undeveloped state. 

 Bud-scales: the modified leaves of the bud. 

 Bulb : a leaf -bud with fleshy scales, usually subterranean. 

 BulUferous : bearing or producing bulbs. 



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