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INDEX 
Bead -tree, Melia 
Beads, 207 
Beam-tree, Pyrus Aria 
Bean, Vicia ; bog-, Menyanthes ; 
cherry-, Vigna; French- or 
haricot-, Phaseolus ; kidney-, 
Phaseolus; Lima-, Phaseolus 
lunatus L. ; ordeal-, Physo- 
stigma ; sacred-, Nelumbium ; 
Soja-, Glycine ; Tonka-, Dip- 
teryx\ Tonquin-, Dipteryx 
Bearberry, Arctostaphylos 
Beard -grass, Polypogon 
Bear’s-foot, Helleborus foetidus L. 
Beauv., Beauvois 
Bed-straw, Galiui?i 
Bee-flowers, 92, Antirrhinum ; 
Begonia , Coryanthes 
Bee- orchis, Ophrys 
Beech, Fag us ; -fern, Pulypodium 
Beef- wood, Casuarina 
Beet-root, Beta 
Behen-oil, ben-oil 
Bell-flower, Campanula ; ivy- 
leaved-, Wahlenbergia 
Belladonna, Atropa 
Ben-oil, Moringa 
Bengal Kino, Butea 
Benjamin, gum-, Styrax 
Bent-grass, Agrostis , Apera 
Benth., Bentham 
Benth.-Hook., Bentham and 
Hooker 
Bentham and Hooker’s system, 
124, 132 
Benzoin, gum-, Styrax 
Bere, Hordeum 
Bergamot orange, Citrus 
Berger, 187 
Bermuda-grass, Cynodon 
Berries, yellow, Rhamnus 
Berry, 1 08 ; bay- , Myrica ; bil- or 
blae-, Vaccinium \ buffalo-, 
Shepherdia ; cow-, Vaccinium ; 
partridge-, Gaultheria\ whortle-, 
Vaccinium 
Betel-nut, Areca, Palmae 
Betel-pepper, Piper 
Betony, Stachys 
Bhang, Cannabis 
Bhotan pine, Pinus 
Bi- (Lat. pref.), two 
Bicarpellary, two-carpelled 
Bicolor (Lat.), of two colours 
Biennial plants, 1 51 ; stem, 44 
Biennis (Lat.), biennial 
Bifarious, distichous 
Bifid hairs, 53 ; petals, 77 ; stigma, 
82 
Big, 4-rowed barley 
Big-tree, Sequoia 
Bikh poison, Aconitum 
Bilabiate corolla, 77 
Bilateral symmetry, 31 
Bilberry, Vaccinium 
Bilimbi, Averrhoa 
Billiard-balls, Phytelephas 
Bilobous (Lat.), two-lobed 
Bilocular, with two loculi, 82 
Bindweed, Convolvulus ; black-, 
Polygonum Convolvulus L. 
Binomial curve, 22 
Biological agents and plant distri- 
bution, 14.5 
Biological classes of flowers, 87 
seq. 
Biology, in the narrower sense, 
ecology 
Biparous, dichasial 
Bipinnate leaf, 51 
Birch, Betula 
Bird-pepper, Capsicum minimum 
Roxb. 
Birds and plant distribution, 109, 
1 10, 148 
Birds and seed migration, 109 
Bird-cherry, Prunus 
Bird’s-foot, Orinthopus\ -trefoil, 
Lotus 
Bird’s-nest fern, Aspleniu?n 
Bird’s -nest orchis, Neottia 
Birth wort , A ristoloch ia 
Biseriate, in two rows 
Bisexual flowers, 68 
Bishop’s cap, Mitella 
Bishop’s weed, A egopodium Poda- 
graria L. 
Bistort, Polygonum 
Biternate leaf, 51 
Bittercress, Cardamine 
Bitter orange, Citrus 
Bitter-root, Lewisia 
