bombycinus 
bracteolate 
into fruit, as flax when the capsule 
is formed. 
bomby‘cinus (Lat.), silky, feeling as 
smooth as silk. 
bo‘ny, of a close and hard texture, as 
the stones of plums, etc. 
bord’ered, having a margin distinct 
in colour or texture from the rest ; 
~ Pit, a pit in which the margin 
projects over the thin closing mem- 
brane, as in coniferous wood; ~ 
Pore, is the same thing. 
borr’agoid, from the genus Borago, 
applied to a form of inflorescence 
which finds its fullest development 
in Anchusa, an extreme case of 
extra-axillary inflorescence (K. 
Schumann), 
Boss, a protuberance ; bossed, with a 
rounded surface having a projec- 
tion in its centre. 
bost’rychoid (Séo7pvé, a ringlet, eldos, 
resemblance), having the form of a 
Bosrryx; ~ Cyme, a sympodial 
branch system in which the right 
or left hand branch is always the 
most vigorous, a helicoid cyme ; 
~ Dichot/omy, a dichotomy or 
repeated forking of an inflores- 
cence, within the previous defini- 
tion ; Bost/‘ryx, a uniparous, heli- 
coid cyme. 
botan'ic (Bordvy, a herb), pertaining 
to the knowledge of plants; ~ 
Garden, a garden especially devoted 
to the culture of plants for scientific 
ends; Bot’anist, a student of plant 
life, in any of its departments ; 
bot’anize, (1) to seek for plants in 
their places of growth ; (2) to study 
actual plants ; Botanol’ogy (Adyos, 
discourse) = Botany ; Botany, the 
study of the vegetable kingdom in 
all its divisions, its classification, 
morphology, physiology, and eco- 
nomics. : 
Bothrench’yma (f00pos, a pit, éyxuua, 
that poured in), tissue composed of 
dotted or pitted ducts or cells. 
Bot’rus (Crozier) = Borrys. 
bot’ry-cy’mose (Sérpvs, a bunch of 
grapes; «dua, a wave), racemes or 
any botryose clusters cymosely 
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aggregated ; bot/ryoid, botryoid’al 
(eldos, resemblance), like a cluster 
of grapes; bot’ryose, botryo’sus 
racemose ; Bot’rys, a raceme. 
Bottom-yeast, or Low-yeast, the yeast 
which forms at the bottom of the 
vats, in German, ‘“ Unterhefe.”’ 
bot’uliform, botuliform’is (botulus, a 
sausage forma, shape), sausage- 
shaped, allantoid. 
Bouillon (Fr.) meatbroth, used for 
cultures. 
bourgeon (Fr., in English pr. bur’jun), 
to bud or sprout. 
Brach’eids (Ischirch) = BracHyscLe- 
REIDS. 
brachia'lis (brachium, the fore-arm), 
a cubit long, roughly about 18 
inches; bra’chiate, brachia‘tus, 
when branches spread and widely 
diverge. 
brachy (Gpaxvs)=short, used in Greek 
compounds. 
brachybiostigmat’ic (Spaxvs, short, 
Blos, life, orlyya, a spot), a term pro- 
posed by Delpino to express stigmas 
which are short lived, withering 
before their proper anthers ripen, 
protogynous ; brachydod’romous 
(dpdu40s, a course), with looped veins 
(Kerner), ¢f. BROCHIDODROMUS ; 
brachyp’odous (ovs, rrodds, a foot), 
having a short stalk or foot; 
Brachyscle’reids (cxAypos, hard), 
stone-cells, the sclereids in barks 
and fruits (Tschirch) ; Brachytme’- 
ma (ryjua, section), a disc-shaped 
cell, which by its rupture sets free 
a gemma in Bryophytes (Correns). 
Bract, Bract’ea (Lat., a thin plate of 
metal), the modified leaves inter- 
mediate between the calyx and the 
normal leaves; Bract-scale, in 
Coniferae, a scale of the cone above 
which lies the seed-bearing scale ; 
bract’eal, of the nature of a bract; 
bract’eate, bractea’tus, provided 
with bracts ; bracteiferous (fero, I 
bear), bearing bracts ; bractea’nus t 
formed of bracts ; Bract’eole, Brac- 
te'ola, (1) a bractlet, or small 
bract, (2) a prophyll ; bract’eolate, 
bracteola’tus, having bractlets ; 
