Balanophorin 
(SUPPLEMENT) 
Berry-cono 
Balanoph’orin, a waxy substance 
which occurs in quantity in the 
stems of certain species of Langs- 
dorfia, a genus of Balanophoreae, 
whence the name. 
ballis’tic, or balis’tic (ballista, a 
catapult) Fruits, used by Kerner to 
describe those fruits which dis- 
charge their seeds elastically ; 
catapult-fruits. 
Bands, add, (3) in the fruit of Zostera 
minor, certain marks, termed by 
Reichenbach Processvs. 
Bark - parench’yma, the 
cortex-parenchyma. 
Bar’riers, Clements’s term for the 
limiting forces which hinder dis- 
persion ; these may be biological~, 
due to the habit of the plant or its 
rivals, or physical ~, such as 
mountains, deserts, seas, etc. 
basid’ial, relating to a Bastpium; ~ 
Lay’er, the structure in Agarics 
which produces or bears the 
basidia ; Basidioli’chenes, Lichen- 
forming Basidiomycetes ; Basid’- 
ium, ae (2) employed by Thaxter 
for the swollen attachment of the 
conidium to the conidiophore in 
Basidiobolus, Hidam. 
basigam’ic, = BASIGAMOUS. 
basiplas'tic (mdacres, moulded), 
Prantl’s term for those leaves 
whose permanent tissue appears 
first at the apex, the lower portion 
continuing longer as meristem. 
bassorinog’ enous, (yevvdw, I produce), 
producing Bassorin; ~ Lay’er, 
the tissue concerned in the pro- 
duction of this substance. 
Bastardem’bryosperm (o7épyua, a 
seed), MacMillan’s term for any 
plant with parthenogenetic em- 
bryo, the effective pollen derived 
from another plant or variety ; 
Bastarden’dosperm, a similar plant 
with parthenogenetic endosperm, 
the effective pollen arising from 
another individual or variety. 
Bast-i’slands, another name _ for 
PHLOEM-ISLANDS ; ~ Nerves, libri- 
form cells in the leaf of Najas 
graminea, Delile; ~ Parench’yma, 
U 
Bame as 
phloém parenchyma; ~ Rays = 
MEDULLARY Rays. 
Bath’mism (SaOyis, a step or degree), 
Cope’s term to denote the force or 
energy of growth. 
bathyb’ic, applied to the deepest 
plankton (Forel); bathypelag’ic (+ 
PELAGIC); plankton companies 
which daily descend from the 
surface (Forel) ; bathyph’ilus (gudéw, 
I love), dwelling in lowlands; 
Bathyphy’tia (gvrdv, a plant), low- 
land plant formations; Bathy- 
phy’ta, the plants of a lowland 
association (Clements). 
batolog’ical, adj. of Barotocy. 
bay, dun-colour; an equivalent of 
BADIUS, 
Beglei’ter (Ger., companion) Cells, 
small groups of thin-walled cells 
associated with DruTeR CrELLs, and 
probably serving as conductors of 
water (Limpricht) ; cf. ComPANIon 
Cxzuus (Salmon). 
Belt’s Corpus’cles, Schimper’s expres- 
sion for the Foop-zopius of certain 
species of Acacia used by ants as 
food. 
bennettit’ean, resembling the fossil 
genus Bennettites. 
Benth’on, or Benth’os (8év60s, depth, 
bottom), the vegetation at the 
bottom of the sea, lakes, or streams; 
the fixed growth as distinct from 
the plankton or floating growth ; 
Forel distinguishes necton'ic ~, 
‘organisms which float freely; 
sessile ~, those which remain 
attached and vag’il ~, wandering 
organisms ; Ben’thophyte (dvrov, a 
plant), a plant whose habitat is at 
the bottom. 
ben’zoloid, a group of scents de- 
rived from aromatic bodies, as 
eugenol or oil of cloves, and in the 
flowers of Heliotrope, Lilac, ete. 
(Kerner). 
Berge’ria, formerly considered a 
genus of fossils, now applied to a 
lepidodendroid stem when the 
epidermis has been stripped off 
(Scott). 
Ber’ry-cone, a cone whose scales have . 
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