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Biarticulate : twice jointed, or two-jointed ; separating into two pieces. 



Biauriadate i iiaving two ears, as the leaf in fig. 96. 



Biccdlose : having two callosities or harder spots. 



Bicdrinate: two-keeled, as the upper palea of Grasses. 



Bicipital {Biceps) : two-headed ; dividing into two parts at the top or bottom. 



Bicdnjugate : twice paired, as when a petiole. forks twice. 



Bid€ntale: having two teeth (not twice or doubly dentate). 



Biennial: oi two years' continuance; springing from the seed one season, 



flowering and dying the next ;.p. 21. . 

 Bifdrious : two-ranked ; aiTanged in two rows. 



Bifid: twe-cleft to about the middle, as the petals of Mouse-ear CMckweed. 

 Bifiiliolate : 4 compound' IfiajT of two leaflets ; p, 66. 

 Bifurcate: twice forked ; or, more commonly, forked into two branches. 

 'Bijvgate: bearing two pairs (of leaflets, &c.). 

 Bilabiate : two-lipped, as the corolla of sage, &c , p. 1Q5, fig. 209. 

 Bildmellaie : of two plates [JameUce), as the stigma of Mimulus. 

 Bildbed : the same as two-lobed. 

 Bildcular: two-celled; as most anthers, the pod of Foxglove, most Saxifrages 



(fig. 254), &c. 

 Binate : in couples, two together. 

 Bipartite : the Latin form of two-parted ; p. 62. 

 Bipinnate (leaf) : twice pinnate ; p. 66, fig. 130. 

 Bipinndtijid ; twice pinnatifid, p. 64 ; that is, pinnatifid with the lobes again 



pinnatifid. 



BipKcate : twice folded together. 



Bisdrial, or Bis&iate : occupying two rows, one within the other, 



£iserrafe: doubly serrate, as when the teeth pf a leaf, &c, are themselves serrate. 



Bitdrnate : twice ternate ; i. e. principal divisions 3, each bearing 3 leaflets, &c. 



Bladder;): thin.and inflated, like the calyx of ^ilene. inflata. 



Blade of a leaf: its expanded portion ; p. 54. 



Boat-shaped: concave within and keeled without, i;^ sl^pe like a small bpat. 



Brdchiate: with opposite branches at right angles to each other, as in the 



Maple and LilaCa 

 Bract (Xatin, braclea). Bracts, in general, are the leaves of an inflorescence, 



more or less diflferent from ordinary leaves. Specially, the bract is the 



small leaf or scale from the axil of which a flower or its pedicel proceeds; 



p. 78; and a 

 Bractlet (bracleola) is a bract seated on the pedicel or flower-stalk; p. 78, fig. 156i. 

 Branch, p. 20, 36. 



Bristles : stiff, sharp hairs, or any very slender bodies of similaj: appearance. 

 Brisdy : beset with bristles. 

 Brush-shaped : see aspergiUiform. 

 Bryology : that part of Botany which relates to Mosses. 

 Bud: a branch in its earliest or undeveloped state ; p.;2p, 

 Bud-scales, p. 22, 50. 



Bulb: & leaf-bu(J with fleshy spales, usually subterranean ; p. 45, fig. 73. 

 Buthfjferous : bearing or producing bulbs. 

 Bidboss or bulbow : bulb-like in shape, &c. 



