INDEX 
631 
Bittersweet, Solarium 
Bitterwood, Picraena excelsa 
Lindl. 
Blackberry, Rubus 
Black bindweed, Polygonum Con- 
volvulus L. 
Black-boy, Xanthorrhoea 
Black bryony, Tamus 
Black -butt, Eucalyptus pilularis 
Sm., etc. 
Black-cap raspberry, Rubus 
Black dammar, Canarium 
Black mustard, Brassica 
Black snake-root, Cimifuga 
Black spleen wort, Asplenium 
Blackthorn, Primus 
Black wattle, Acacia 
Blackwood, Acacia , Dalbergia 
Bladder-campion, Silene 
Bladder- fern, Cystopteris 
Bladder-nut, Staphylea pinnata L. 
Bladder-seed, Physospermum 
Bladder-senna, Colutea 
Bladder- wort, Utricularia 
Blaeberry, Vaccinium 
Blazing-star, Liatus squarrosa 
Willd. 
Bleeding heart, Dicentra 
Blimbing, Averrhoa 
Blinks, Montia 
Blood -root, Sanguinaria 
Blood-wood, Eucalyptus 
Blue-bell, Campanula , Scilla 
Blue-berry (N. Am.), Vaccinium 
spp. 
Blue-bottle, Centaur ea 
Blue-grass (Kentucky), Poa pra - 
tensis L. 
Blue-gum, Eucalyptus 
Bo-tree, Ficus 
Bog-asphodel, Narthecium 
Bog-bean, Menyanthes 
Bog-garden, 8, 6 
Bog-myrtle, Myrica 
Bois Immortelle, Erythrina um- 
brosa H. B. K. 
Boiss. , Boissier 
Boldo, Peumus 
Bole, straight main trunk 
Boll, capsule (esp. cotton) 
Bolsa, Ochroma 
Bombay hemp, Crotalaria 
Borage, Bor ago 
Boreal regions, 193 
Borecole, a variety of cabbage 
Bostryx, 64 (fig-), 65 
Botanic gardens, uses, 6 seq. 
Botanical museums, 8 
Botany, economic, 197, 1 
,, fossil, 120 
,, systematic, 2, 1 16 seq. 
,, tropical, 3 
Botryose, racemose 
Bottle-brush, Callistemon 
Bottle-gourd, Lagenaria 
Bow-string hemp, Sansevieria 
Bow-wood, Maclura 
Bower, F. O., 30, 68, Filicineae 
Box, Buxus 
P. Br., Patrick Browne 
R. Br., Robert Brown 
Brachy- (Gr. pref. ), short 
Bracken, Pteris 
Bract, 62, 83, 89 
Bracteate, bearing bracts 
Bracteole, 62, 83 
Bracts as wings, no 
,, in fruit, 107 
Brake, Pteris ; curled rock-, Crypto- 
gramme 
Bramble, Rubus 
Branching, 41, 42, 62, 70, 153 
,, (carpels), 70, 82 
,, (stamens), 70, 86 
Brandy-bottle, Nuphar 
Brauna, Melanoxylon 
Braz., Brazil 
Brazil cherry, Eugenia uniflora L. 
Brazil nuts, Bertholletia 
Brazilian arrowroot, Manihot 
Brazilian nutmegs, Cryptocarya 
Bread-fruit, Artocarpus 
Bread, Hottentot, Testudinaria 
Bread -nut, Brosimum 
Briar, Rosa 
Briarwood, Erica 
Brinjal, egg plant 
Bristle fern, Trichomanes 
Brit., Britain, British 
British oak, Quercus 
Broad bean, Vicia 
Brocoli, Brassica 
