banded 
Basitonus 
narrow leaves, linear; band’ed, 
marked with stripes of colour. 
Ban’ner, the standard of a papilion- 
aceous flower. 
Barb, hooked hairs, frequently doubly- 
hooked ; 
Barba (Lat.), a beard; bar’bate, barba’- 
tus, bearded, having long weak 
hairs in tufts; Barbell’ae t, the 
short stiff straight hairs of Com- 
posite pappus; adj. barbell’ate ; 
Barbell’ulae, + similar structures in 
the pappus of Aster; adj. bar- 
bellulate, barhellula’tus ; Barb’ule, 
Barb'ula, (1) the inner row of teeth 
in the peristome of such Mosses as 
Tortula ; (2) a small barb (Crozier). 
Barill’a, the crude soda from Salsola 
and allied genera. 
Bark, (1) the outer integuments of 
the wood and exterior to it, 
all tissues outside the cambium; 
(2) frequently restricted to the 
periderm and tissues external to 
it; ~ bared, stripped of the bark ; 
~ bound, having the bark too 
tense, thus impeding growth; ~ 
galled, having the bark injured. 
Barm, the floating yeast as used in 
bread-making, the ‘‘ Oberhefe” of 
the Germans; barm’y, containing 
yeast. 
barred, crossed by lines approx- 
imately parallel. 
bar’ren, unproductive, infertile ; ap- 
plied to the male inflorescence of 
certain Mosses; ~ Flow’er, the male 
or staminate flower. 
Barymorpho’sis (Sapis, heavy, uepdw- 
ots, shape), Sachs’s term for the 
changes produced in organisms in 
consequence of gravitation. 
basal (basis, foundation), at the base 
of an organ or part ; ~ Cell, the first 
cell of an iospermous embryo 
which becaieeatcted to the wall 
of the embryo-sac; ~ Growth, in- 
crease near the base, as distin- 
guished from apical growth; ~ 
nerved, basiner’vis, with nerves 
from the base of the leaf; ~ Pla- 
cen'ta, the placenta at the baseof the 
ovary ; ~ Wall, the division of the 
oospore in Archegoniatae into an 
anterior and a posterior half ; 
Base, the extremity of attach- 
ment, by which nutrition takes 
lace. 
Bas'id—Basid’ium, pl. Basid’ia (bast- 
dium, a little pedestal), the mother- 
cells of Hymenomycetous and Gas- 
teromycetous Fungi, having little 
points from which spores are thrown 
off ; basidiogenet’ic (yévos, race, de- 
scent), produced upon a basidium ; 
Basidtogonid’ium (yor), race, off- 
spring), proposed emendation of 
‘“basidiospore”; Basidiomyce’tes 
(vixns, utxnros, fungus), Fungi pro- 
ducing spores on basidia ; id’- 
iophore (gopéw, I carry), a sporo- 
phore bearing a basidium; Bast- 
diorhi’zae (plfa, root), Vuillemin’s 
name for Basidiomycetes ; Basid’io- 
spore (copa, a seed), a spore pro- 
duced by a basidium; basidio- 
sp‘orous, producing such spores. 
basifi‘xed, basifix’us (basis, foundation, 
Jjixus, fast), attached by the base; 
basifugal (fugo, I pnt to flight), 
developing from the ae upwards ; 
basig’amous (ydéuos, marriage), when 
thenormal positionof egg-apparatus - 
and antipodals is reversed ; the oo- 
sphere and synergidae being at the 
lower end of the mother-cell of the 
endosperm (embryo-sac); Van 
Tieghem contemplates the possible 
occurrence of double Basig’amy ; 
Basigyn‘ium ‘yur, a woman), a the- 
caphore, the stalk of an ovary 
above the stamens and petals; 
bas‘ilar, basila’ris, basal; basin- 
er’ved (nerius, a nerve), veined from 
the base; basila’tus { arising from 
a broad base as certain hairs ; basi- 
P’etal (peto, I seek), growth in the 
direction of the base. 
Ba’sis (Lat.) the base; basiscop’ic 
(cxoréw, I look), looking towards the 
base, the reverse of acroscopic ; 
basisolu'tus + (solutus, unbound), 
used of such leaves as those of 
Sedum which are prolonged down- 
wards beyond their true origin ; 
Basit‘onus (révos, a cord), the pro- 
