A Botanical iJiEtionary, 
BarhuL-e^ are the femiRorcts in compound radia* 
ted Rowers. 
Bifid^ trifid^ quadirfid^ fplit into two, three, or 
four Parts. 
Bivalve^ the Pods or HuRcs of plants, v/hich open 
lengthways, like the Rieil of a mufcle. 
Brachia^ are divifions of the large branches of 
trees from the trunk. 
Bra^ea^ the petals, or fiov/er-leaves of plants. 
Bulbus^ fee Root. 
, Cafypha., is the thin involucrum or cover of fome 
feeds. 
Calyx., the Empalement, is thofe leaves that are 
of a ftronger texture than the petals, and generally 
cover the other parts of the flower before it blow. 
In fome plants it becomes the capfule, or feed-veflTel, 
but the petals never. B’ah. 2. Fig. 4. where the fm all 
leaves, on the back part of the flower, reprefent the 
empalement. 
Capillaments., in flowers, are generally underfliood 
to mean the chives. 
Capillary Plants., are fuch as have no main ftem, 
but their leaves arife from the root upon pedicles, 
and produce their feeds on the back part of their^ 
leaves. ' ^ 
Capitiiliim, is the head, or top of any plant. 
Capfula., is the fliort pod or huflc of a plant, con- 
taining the feed. Dry feed-veiTels, according to the 
num.ber of cells into which they are divided, are 
called unicapfular, bicapfular, tricapfular, tetracap- 
fuiar, pentacapfular, i. e. feed-veflfeis having one, 
two, three, four, or five cells, 
Carina. See Floisser. 
Cauda., the Tail of a Leaf, is a produdlion of the 
middle nb, and connecls the leaf with the ftalk, 
after the manner of a pedicle. 
Caudex., is the trunk of a tree. 
CauliSy a Stalk, is a part of a plant receiving the 
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