Bizzarla 
(SUPPLEMENT) 
Bulgarine 
cally two chromosomes in each of 
the apparent chromosomes, in 
nuclear reduction divisions. 
Bizzari’a (Ital., extravagant whim), 
a hybrid between the orange and 
the citron which has the character 
of both in juxtaposition, but with- 
out blending (Heinig). 
Biast’ochores (xwpls, separate), plants 
distributed by offshoots (Clements); 
blastogen‘ie (yévos, offspring), em- 
ployed by Weismann for those 
characters which have originated 
from changes in the germ (L. H. 
Bailey) ; Blastoma’nia (uavid, mad- 
ness), the production of an abnor- 
mal number of leaf-shoots (A. 
Braun). 
Blend‘ing, a hybrid formed by the 
crossing of races (Heinig); Ger., 
Blendling. 
Blepharoplas’toid (eldos, resem- 
blance), a body which appears 
near the nuclear spindle in Mar- 
silia, and divides during the resting 
stage of the nucleus, disappearing 
soon afterwards (Shaw). 
Bol’etol, Bertrand’s name for the blue 
colouring matter in certain Fungi, 
as Boletus. 
bom’bysine (Heinig) = BomBYCINUS. 
boragina’ceous, belonging to or re- 
sembling the genus Borago or its 
allies. 
Borer, the penetrating root of a 
parasite (De Bary). 
Bot/any, add, (2) also used for a 
text-book or local-flora. 
Bound’ary Cell, Ger., Grenzzelle= 
HETEROCYST. 
Brach’eid, Tschirch’s suggested ab- 
breviation of his own term 
BRACHYSCLEREID. 
Brach’yblast (8\acrds, a bud), Har- 
tig’s term for a spur, or short 
branch; also spelled Brach’yoblast. 
brachyclad’ous, -dus (Addos, a 
branch), applied by Russow to 
those species of Sphagnum which 
bear short branches; brachyphyl- 
Vous (@vAdov, a leaf), short-leaved. 
brachysty’lous (+STYLE), 2 synonym 
of MICROSTYLOUS. 
Bract-cell, used for certain cells on 
the branchlets of Chara. 
Bract’eole, add, (3) a postical bract 
of Hepaticae (Spruce). 
brad’yschist (Bpadds, slow, oxoTds, 
split), when in a brood mother- 
cell successive nuclear divisions 
are completed before cell-division 
(Hartog). 
brassica’ceous (Brassica, + aceous), 
resembling the genus Brassica, or 
belonging to it. 
Braun's Series, the same as FIBonAccl 
Series. 
Bridge, a narrow band of tissue con- 
necting larger masses of the same 
(Kearney); bridging, applied to 
certain species which act as inter- 
mediate hosts of Fungi, thus 
breaking down immunity. 
Bro’melin, a proteolytic enzyme oc- 
curring abundantly in the juice of 
the pine-apple, which is a member 
of the Bromeliaceae, whence the 
name, 
Brot‘ium, or Brot/ion (8poros, mortal), 
a succession of plants due to human 
agency; Brot/ochores, -ae (xwpls, 
separate), dispersion by man (Cle- 
ments). 
Brush, applied to the young fruit 
of the hop, when the stigmas are 
protruding. 
Bry’ogams, Bryogam’ia (yduos, mar- 
riage), term proposed by Caruel 
for the Bryophytes; Bryo’ma, the 
vegetative substance of Mosses ; 
bryophyt'ic, pertaining to Bryo- 
PHYTES. 
Bud-corm, the root-system of most 
herbaceous plants (J. Smith); ~ 
-gall, Kerner’s term for a gall 
which involves several or all the 
members of a shoot, and may be 
leafless or leafy ; Bud’dage, propa- 
gation by buds (L. H. Bailey). 
Bulb, add, Plu’mule- ~ , bulb produced 
direct from the seed ; Run’ner ~, 
bulb arising from a stolon (Blod- 
gett). 
Bul’garine, Zopf’s term for an orange 
pigment produced by Bulgaria 
polymorpha, Wett. 
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