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Bid-will’-i... .. (com.) of Bidwill, Australian botanist ; 
bif-a’-ri-a bie .. (Latin), Bifarious; same as distichons (q.v.); when organs are 
arranged in two rows on opposite sides of the axis ; 
bif-lo’-ra 5 Wa «+ (Latin), two-/lowered (H.) ; 
pif-ol-i-4'-tus (atin): compound ith two leaflets (N. 1/187) ; 
eal sol:a‘itus : pound leaves with two leaflets (N. ); 
Big-ar-ad’-i-a... ... Bigaradier (French), Risso’s name for a class of oranges ; 
big-em’-in-a’-tum _... } (Latin), doubly paired (N. 1/157); . when each of two rachide 
big-em’-in-um dares bears a pair of leaflets ; 
big-lan-dul-o’-sa ... (Latin), with two glands; 
Bi-gno’-ni-a ... 1 (com.), Abbe Bignon [(pr:) Ar-bay Bee-nyorng'] librarian to 
Louis IV of France (N. 1/187) ; 
Bi-gno’-ni-a’-ce-a_ .... (Latin), Trwmpet-flower (Bignonia) Family or Order ; 
bi-hor-el’-li ... _ (com.) of Bihorell (N. 1/262) ; 
bij’-ug-a M34 ... (Latin), a compound leaf with two pairs of leaflets (N. 1/189) ; 
Bil-im-bi ... Blimbing (Malayan) the name of the plant (McL. 82) ; 
bil’-ob-a es ... (Latin), two-lobed, ie., a leaf divided into two parts, not more 
than halfway down, the lobes or sinuses being rounded 
(H.) ; 
bil-oe ul-a’-ris .., (Latin), two-celled (H.) ; 
bin-a’-ta Sed ... (Latin) in pairs, or a leaf composed of two leaflets proceeding 
from the same point (N. 1/191: H.); 
binnec’-tar-if’-er-um... (Latin), having two nectaries, or flower glands ; 
bi-i- ... ae ... (Latin) two together; 
bipar-ti’-ta ... ... (Latin), divided in two nearly to the base (N. 1/191) ; 
bip-in-na’-ta ... ... (Latin), bipinnate ; when the leaflets of a pinnate leaf become 
themselves pinnate ; 
bip-in’-na-tif’-id-a ...* (Latin), bipinnatifid, the primary and secondary segments of 
a leaf both being divided, but not tothe base (N. 1/191: 
H.); 
bis ae aes .. (Laten), twice, twain, two ; im compositien’ bi—; 
Bisch-o’-fi-a ... ... (com.) Karl Gustav Bischof [(pr:) Karrl Goos tarv’ Bee-shofe 
German professor at Bunn, 1792—1870 ; 
bis-er-i-a’-lis ... (Latin). biseriate ; in two series or rows; 
bis-ul-ca’-ta ... ... (Latin), bisulcate, with two groves (H.) ; 
bit-er-ra’-ta ... ... (Latin), biternate ; when three secondary rachides proceed from 
common rachis, and each bears three leaflets ; 
biv-al’-vis mt ... (Latin), with two valves, or (of a capsule) halves of the split 
pericarp (H.) ; 
Bix’-a Sea ... Biva (South American), name of the plant (N. 1/192) ; 
BUx=eCO-2 ... ... (Latin) Arnotto (Bixa) Family or Order ; 
Blach’-i-a ; ... (com.) Blachie {(pr .) Blar : shee], "'rench botanist ; 
Blackburn’-i-4’-num .  (com.} of Blackburn (N. 1/338) ; 
Bla-k-6’-i a .. (com.) Martin Blake, of Antigua, great promoter of useful 
knowledge (N. 1/93) ; 
blan-‘da me .. (Latin), alluring (Cass. Lat. Dic.) ; 
Blech-‘num ,.. ... Blechnon (Greek) a fern (N. 1/193) ; 
Ble’-o ... Ri ... Bleo (Mexican), name of the plant ; 
Bleph’-ar-is ... ... (Greek), eyelash ; (all :) fringed bracts of the calyx (N, 1/195) ; 
bleph’-ar-is-per’-mum. blaphiris, sperma (Greek), eylash, seed; (all:) ciliate margins, 
of the achenes. 
Bleph-’ar-is-tem’-ma. blepharis, stemma (Greek), Eyelash, wreath; (all:) stamens and 
petal claws both cilated, and tips of the latter lacerated ; 
iBhehi-iea) i .. (com.) Captain Bligh, who first carried bread-fruit tothe West 
Indies (Br.33) ; 
Bln’-me-a’-na .. €(com.) of P. C. L. Blume, author of “ Flora javenenois” and 
Blu-me-a.- nus ...U  ‘Rumphia’”’ Amsterdam, 1836. 
Boeh-me’-ri-a .. (com.) George Rudolph Boehmer [(pr:) Bur-mair}, German 
botanist (N. 1/197) ; 
Bo-er-haav.’i-a ... ‘com.) Hermann Boerhaave [ pr : Hair-marn Bur-har-vay ] 1668-- 
1738, famous Dutch physician, professor of botany, medi- 
cine and chemistry at Leyden in South Holland ; 
