GLOSSARY OF BOTANICAL TERMS. 



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Bticmte, bcnied, Imving a fleshy coat or covering. 

 iSamed, rcsembUng a bag or sack, 

 /Jail the round central ]iart of the flower of the Stapelia. 

 fJands, or vittaa, are tlio spaces between the elevated 



hnes or ribs of tlie fruit of umbelliferous plants. 

 aar7-ed, crossed by a paler colour in spaces resembling 



Bmh, any thing which resembles the beak of a bird; 

 hard sliort points. 



Bearded, having^ lon^^ hair like a beard. 



Beardletted, having small awns. 



BtcuspidatGf twice pointed. 



Buientate, double-toothod, or having two teeth. 



Buijiniul, a plant is said to be biennial whieli rcfpiires 

 two seasons to mature its fruity and then dies. 



Bifa?-ious, placed in two rows. 



Bijid^ half divided in two; two cleft. 



Biplandidar, double-glanded. 



Bilahiate, having two lips. 



Bilobed, divided into two lobes. 



Binaie,^ growing two together. 



Bipartibki capable of being pai-ted in two. 



Bipinnate, a mode of foliation; twice pinnate. 



Bipinnatijid, twice pinnatifid, a mode of foliation. 



Bisaccatej having two little sacks, bags, or pouches 



Biscutate, resembling two bucklers {scuia) placed side 

 by side. 



Bitemate, divided in three twice over. 



Bi-fri-crmate, crenate twice or thrice. 



BitH-pinnatiJid^ pinnatifid twice or tlirice over. 



Bi-tri-tematej gxowing in threes twice or thrice over. 



Bivahedy two-valved. 



Blaiuildng^ made white by being grown in a dark place. 



Bland, fair, beautiful. 



Bliffht, a vague term, signifying a pestilence among 

 plants caused by the attack of insects or of para- 

 sitical fungi, or by some endemical affectiun of the 

 atmosphere. 



Blistered, having tlic surface raised as the skin is when 

 blistered. 



Bole, trunk of a tree. 



Bbragineom, of or belonging to the natural order Bora- 

 ginese. 



Brachiate, having arms or branches usually placed 

 opposite to each other, nearly at right angles with 

 the main stem, and crossing each other alternately. 



Bracteaie, furnished with bractege. 



Bt'acteoliS, little bractese. 



Bradeos, small leaves placed near the calyx. 



Branchlets, small branches. 



Bristles, rigid hairs. 



BuWiferoiLs, bulb-bearing. 



Biiihous, having bulbs. 



Bulls, underground buds resembling roots, and con- 

 sisting of numerous fleshy scales placed one over the 

 other. 



Burry, covered with hooked stiff liairs, like the heads 

 of Bur or Burdock. 



Bt/ssoi(i, having the appearance of By.ssi. 



Caducous, falling off soon. 



CcBsious, gray. 



CiBspitose, growing in little tufts. 



Calcarate, spurred, or spur-shaped. 



Calcareous, chalky, or growing on chalk. 



Calceiform, formed like a little shoe. 



Colli, small callosities, or rough protuberances. 



Callous, hardened. 



Calydne, of or belonging to a calyx. 



Calyculatedj having bracteolse resembling an external 



or additional calyx. 

 Calyptra, literally an extinguisher: applied to the body 



which tips the theca of a moss, and tlie Uke. 

 Calyptrate,\\^vmg a covering resembling an extinguisher. 

 Caiyptriformis, shaped like a calyptra. 

 Campanulute, bell-shaped. 

 Canaliculate, channelled or furrowed. 

 Cancellate, latticed; resembling lattice-work. 

 Canescent, hoary, approaching to white. 

 CapHlary^ very slender; resembling a hair. 

 Capitate, growing in a head. 

 Capitular, growing in small heads. 

 Capituli, small heads. 



Capituliform, fonned like a small head. 



Carbonised, burned to a Coal. 



Carina, a keel like that of a boat; also the two lower 

 petals of papilionaceous flowers. 



Carhiate, keel-shaped. 



Cariopsis, a one-celled, small, indeliiscent pericarpiura 

 adhering to the seed which it contains, as the grain 

 of grasses. 



Carious, decayed. 



Carminative, medicines which promote perspiration. 



Carnose, fleshy. 



Carpella, the small parts out of whicli compound fruit 

 are formed. 



Carpology, the science which treats of the structure of 

 fruits and seeds. 



Cartilage, gristle. 



CartUaginous, gristly. 



Cataplasm, a plaster, or more properly a poultice. 



Catarrlud, of or belonging to a cold. 



Catltartic, purgative. 



Calkin, inflorescence of the natural order Amentacese. 



Caudate, tailed, being like a tail. 



Caudex, the tnink or stem. 



Caudicula, a small membranous process on which th« 

 pollen of orchideous plants is fixed. 



Caulesc&nt, acquiring a stem. 



Cauline, produced on a stem. 



Caustidty, having a burning quality. 



Cautery, that which bums. 



Cellular, composed of cells. 



Centimetre is a French measure equal to 4 lines ^j^ 

 or near 4^ lines. 



Ce7ituricB, hundreds. 



CepJudic, medicinal to the head. 



Ceraceous, wax-like. 



Cernuous, nodding, drooping, or pendulous. 



Chaffy, bearing processes resembling chaff. 



Clialaza, a spot on the seed, indicating where the ves- 

 sels of the raphe terminate. 



Channel-leaved, folded togethei so as to resemble a 

 channel for conducting water. 



Charring, blackening by fire. 



Cili(s, hairs like those of the eyelash. 



Ciliary processes, like eyelash hairs. 



Ciliated, eyelash-haired. 



Ciliuto-dentate, toothed and fringed with hairs like eye- 

 lashes. 



Oifiereous, ash-coloured, gray. 



Circinately, curled round like a sharp crook. 



Cirrhiferous^ beanng tendrils. 



Cirrliose or Cirrhous, tendrilled. 



Clammy, viscid, sticky. 



Claihrate, latticed, divided lilte latticework. 



Cla/aate, club-shaped. 



Clavellose, clubbed, or having club-like processes. 



Clavus, a name for the ergot, a disease in corn. 



Claws, the taper base of a petal. 



Clinandrium, that part of the column of orchideous 

 t)lants in whick the anther lies. 



CtypmtG, shaped like a Roman buckler. 



Cooioebbed, covered with loose hairs, as if with a cobweb- 



Cuchleate, resembling the shell of a snail. 



Coliering, connected. 



CoUapsion, the act of closing or falling together. 



Columella, the sixis of the fruit of mosses. 



Columnar, formed like ooltmins. 



Comminuted, '^u'lvGnsad. or pounded. 



Comose, this term is used to express a kind of inflo- 

 rescence, which is terminated by sterile bractese. 



Compact, close, solid. 



Complicate, folded tog'-thoi. 



GomplicatO'Carinute, folded togclher so as to form a sort 

 of keel, 



Compotmd, used in botany to express ihe union of seve- 

 ral things in one: thus, a compound umbel is formed 

 by several simple umbels, a compound flower by 

 several simple flowers, &c. 



Compressed, pressed together. 



Concave, hollow. 



Concentric, points or lines at equal distances from a 

 common centre. 



Concrete, hardened or formed into one mass. 



Cone, a particular kind of compound ft-uit. 



Covferruminate, united together so as to be undistiu- 

 guishable 



