GLOSSARY OF BOTANICAL TERMS USED. 161 



he column passing vertically through the centre of an ovary, which 

 olumn may be either a free axis, or formed by the meeting of the 



Axis. Any member which bears lateral subsidiary members may 



Balsam, a resin disso 

 Barken, see Fertile. 

 Bakk, all the tissues 



;;;. 



several equally, or sub-equally 



See also Nervation. 

 B BD.fi I to the stalk at the base. Cp. Peltate, Dorsi-fi 



Basiscopic side, the side of a lateral organ towards the base ol 



parent axis. Op. Acroscopic. 



he xylem or wood, ar 

 ' •!;,.,,, iri\ always lying outside it, and separated from i 



Iced off from the body ot tne 

 organ. (The term is not applied to leaves.) 



' -. lios\.'>\, r. tin- -m (1- uv tew. Tic 



" (l somctin } eS 

 a firmer hard inm i ' veT > the endo " 



««P becomes st,.,, .^S n ? pleB< ? 



denies but which re bwaotert. 



cino, 2-tid. dii id , If- way down. 



BtNAtK, 2-nate " same point. 



.Bi-pinnate, pinnate with the pinnae, or some of them, again 



Bi-pinnatifid, pinnatifid with the segments again pinnatifid. 



fertile stamens and carpels 



^ Blade, the expanded part of a leaf, bract, etc., as distinct from th» 



Bostryx or Bostrychoid Cyme, see Helicoid cyme. 



,11 bracts occ.rrinii on th,- cms . 



