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Bacca, a berry, or a pulpy pericarpium without valves, in which 



the seeds are naked. 

 Barba, a beard, a species of pubescence, sometimes on the leaves 



of plants, as on the Mesembryanthemum Barbatum. 

 Barbatum Folium, when a bunch of strong hairs terminate the 



leaves. 



Bicornes, plants whose antherse have the appearance of two horns. 

 Likewise an order of plants in the Fragmenta Methodi 

 Natural is of Linnaus. 



Biennis Radix, a root which continues |o vegetate two years. 



Bifaria Folia, a leaf pointing two ways. 



Bifer/E Planter, flowering twice a year. 



Bifidum Folium, divided or cloven into two parts. 



Bifloruf. Pedunculus, bearing two flowers on a foot-stalk. 



Big em in um Folium, a forked foot-stalk, with two little leaves on 

 the apex of each division. 



Bijugum Folium, a winged leaf, bearing two pair of foliola. 



Bi lab i ata Corolla, a corolla with two lips. 



Bilobum Folium, a leaf consisting of two lobes. 



Binata Folia, a digitate leaf, consisting of two foliola. 



Bipartitum Folium, a leaf divided into two segments. 



Bipinnatum Folium, doubly winged, when the folioles of a pin- 

 note leaf are pinnate. 



Biternatum Folium, when there are three folioles on a petiole, 

 and each foliole is ternate, as in Epimedium. 



Bivalve Pericarpium, consisting of two valves, as in the Siliqua 

 and Leg u men. 



Brachiatus Caulis, branching in pairs; each pair standing at 

 right angles with those above and below. 



Brachium, the arm, tenth degree in the Linncean Scale for mea- 

 suring plants, being twenty-four Parisian inches. 



Bractea, a floral leaf, these are generally of a different shape 

 and colour from the other leaves of the plant, and are al- 

 ways seated near the fructification. 



Bracteatus, having a bractea growing out of it. 



