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VOCABULARY. 
Beak'ed. Terminating by a process 
shaped like the beak of a bird. 
Ber'ry. A pulpy pericarp enclosing 
seeds without capsules. See Bacca. 
Bi, derived from bis, signifying two. 
Bicor'nis. Anthers with two horns. 
Bi^dens. Having two teeth. 
Bien'nial. Living two years, in the 
second of which the flower and fruit 
are produced ; as in wheat, 
Bi'fid. Two-parted. 
Bila'biate. Corolla with two lips. 
Bi'nate. Two growing together. 
Bipin'nate. Twice pinnate. 
BUer'nate. Twice ternate. The peti- 
ole supporting three terante leaves. 
Bi' valve. Two-valved. 
Blas'teme. From the Greek blastema^ a 
bud. 
Bor'der. The brim or spreading part 
of a corolla. 
Bot'rus. A cluster, like grapes. 
Brach'ilate. Branches opposite, and 
each pair at right angles with the 
preceding. 
Bract. Floral leaf ; a leaf near the 
flower which is different from the 
other leaves of the plant. In the 
erown-imperial the bracts are at the 
termination of the flower stem ; from 
their resemblance to a hair, they are 
called coma. 
Branch. A division of the main stem 
or mainroot. 
Branch'let. Subdivision oi a branch, 
a twig. 
Bre'vis. Short. 
Bruma'les. (From hruma, winter.) 
Plants which blossom in winter. 
Bud. The residence of the infant 
leaf and flower. 
Bulbs. Called roots ; sometimes found 
growing on the stem ; strictly speak- 
ing, bulbs are buds, or the winter 
residence of the future plants. An- 
nual plants do not have bulbs ; they 
are only preserved by seeds. 
Bun' die. See Fascicle, 
C 
Cadu'cous. (From cado, to fall.) Fall- 
ing early ; as the calyx of the poppy. 
CcBs'pitose. Forming turfs, several roots 
growing together. 
Cal'amus. Reed-like. 
Calca'reous. Containing lime; as shells 
of oysters, &c. 
Cal'carate. Resembling or being fur- 
nished with a spur. 
Calli. Small callosities or protuber- 
ances. 
Calyb'ion. (From Tcalubion, a little cab- 
in.) A genus in Mirbel's second 
class of fruits. 
Calyc'ulated. Having an additional 
calyx. 
Calyp'tra. The cap or hood of pistil- 
late mosses, resembling an extin- 
guisher set on a candle. 
Calyx. From the Greek, signifying a 
fiower-cup ; in most plants it encloses 
and supports the corolla. It is defin- 
ed by Linnaeus to be the termination 
of ihe outer bark. 
Cam'bium. The descending sap, which 
every year forms a new layer of bark 
and one of wood. If descends be- 
tween the bark and the wood, so that 
the new v/ood is formed externally 
and the new bark internally, 
Campan'ulate. Bell-form, 
Campes'tris. Growing in uncultivated 
fields. 
Can'cellated. Appearing like lattice- 
work. 
Canes'cent. White or hoary, 
Cap'illary. Hair-like. 
Cap'itate. Growing in heads. 
Cap'sule. A little chest ; that kind of 
hollow seed vessel which becomes 
dry and opens when ripe; a capsule 
that never opens is called a sama,ra. 
Carcer'ular. (From career.^ prison.) 
A seed contained in a covering, 
whose sides are compressed. One of 
Mirbel's genera of fruits, in the order 
Carcerulares. 
Cari'na. The keel or lower folded pe- 
tal of a papilionaceous flower. 
Car'inated. Keeled, having a sharp 
back like the keel of a vessel. 
Carmin'ative. A medicine used to dis- 
pel wind. 
Car7io'se. Of a fleshy consistence. 
Car'pel. A term used for the divisions 
of the fruit. Each carpel generally 
forms a distinct cell. 
Car' f OS. From the Greek karpos, fruit. ~ 
CaryopMjVleous. Pink7like corolla, hav- 
ing five petals with long claws, all 
regular and set in a tubular calyx. 
Cat'kin. See Ament. 
Cau'date. Having a tail ; as in some 
seeds. 
Cau'dex. The main body of a tree, or 
root. 
Caules'cent. Having a stem exclusive 
of the peduncle or scape. 
Cau'Li'we. Growing on the main stem. 
Cau'lis. The main, herbage-bearing 
stem of all plants, called in French 
la tige. 
Cell. The hollow part of a pericarp or 
anther: each cavity in a pericarp 
that contains one or more seeds, is 
called a cell. According to the num- 
ber of these cells, the pericarp is one- 
celled, two-celled, three-celled, &o. 
