banded 
Basistonus 
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 {, the 
short stiff straight hairs of Com- 
posite pappus; adj. barbell’ate ; 
Barbell’ulae, + similar structures in 
the pappus of Aster; adj. bar- 
bell’ulate, Larhellula’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 (Sapvs, heavy, poppu- 
ots, shape), Sachs’s term for the 
changes produced in organisms in 
consequence of gravitation. 
ba’sal (basis, foundation), at the base 
of an organ or part ; ~ Cell, the first 
cell of an angiospermous embryo 
which becomes attached 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 base of the 
ovary ; ~ Wall, the division of the 
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oospore in Archegoniatae into an 
anterior and a posterior half ; 
Base, the extremity of attach- 
ment, by which nutrition takes 
place. 
Bas‘id=Basid‘ium, pl. Basid’ia (basi- 
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 ; 
Basidiogonid’ium (yori, race, off- 
spring), proposed emendation of 
‘‘basidiospore”; Basidiomyce’tes 
(udxns, utxnros, fungus), Fungi pro- 
ducing spores on basidia; Basid’- 
iophore (popéw, I carry), a sporo- 
phore bearing a basidium; Bast- 
diorhi’zae (pifa, root), Vuillemin’s 
name for Basidiomycetes ; Basid’io- 
spore (s7opa, 4 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; 
basif‘ugal (/fugo, I put to flight), 
developing from the base upwards ; 
basig’amous (dos, marriage), when 
thenormal position of 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 (nervus, anerve), 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 + (solutws, unbound), 
used of such leaves as those of 
Sedum which are prolonged down- 
wards beyond their true origin ; 
Basist’onus (rdvos, a cord), the pro- 
