B A 



la formed by leaves or brandies with the ftem, 

 as in the Melijfa calami?itha, Nepeta, and many 

 other flowers. 



B, 



BACCA, a berry ; a full, pulpy Psricarplum^ 

 without Vahulce, in which the feeds are naked, 

 having no other covering or cell, as in the 

 goofberry, ijc, 



BARBA, a beard; a fpecies of pubefcence 

 covering the furface of plants ; it does not ap- 

 pear in the Phil. Botanica, and therefore re- 

 mains unexplained. In the Delineatio Plantee it 

 is ranged thus, Pill, Lana, Barbti, Fomentum^ 

 It feems from its application in the Spec. PL 

 to fignify a tuft of hair, i3'c. if^c. 



BARBATUM Folium [barba, a beard]. If 

 Linnseus intends that this term, applied to the 

 furface of a leaf, ihould have a precife mean- 

 ing diftinft from pilofum, hirfutum-, villofum, it 

 muft certainly allude to the beard of a goat, 

 i. e. the hairs ending in a point. 



Barbatus Flos, inftanced in the Dianthus har- 

 hatu:. Sweet William. 



Barbatus Corolla, in the Gentlcna carnp. 



Br 



