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VOCABULARY. 
Beaded. 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. 
Bilcdbiate. Corolla with two lips. 
Bi'nate. Two growing together. 
Bipin'nate . Twice pinnate. 
Biter'nate. Twice ternate. The peti¬ 
ole supporting three terarfle leaves. 
Bi' valve. Two-valved. 
Bias’terue. From the Greek blastema , a 
bud. 
Bor'der,. The brim or spreading part 
of a corolla. 
Bot'rus. A cluster, like grapes. 
Brach'ilale. 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 
crown-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 of a branch, 
a twig. 
Bre'vis. Short. 
BrumaJles. (From bruma , 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. 
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Cadu'cous. (From cado, to fall.) Fall¬ 
ing early; as the calyx of the poppy. 
Cces'pilose. 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 kalubion , a little cab¬ 
in.) A genus in Mirbel’s second 
class of fruits. 
Calyc'ulated. Having an additional 
calyx. 
Calyp'tra . The ca-p or hood of pistil¬ 
late mosses, resembling an extin¬ 
guisher set on a candle. 
Calyx. From the Greek, signifying a 
flow?r--cup ; in most plants it encloses 
and supports the corolla. It is defin¬ 
ed by Linnaeus to be the termination 
of the outer bark. 
Com'biurn. The descending sap, which 
every year forms a new layer of bark 
and one of wood. It descends be¬ 
tween the bark and the wood, so that 
the new wood is formed externally 
and the new bark internally. 
Campan'umte. B e11-fo r m. 
Campes'iris. G-rowing in uncultivated 
fields. 
Can'cellhled. Appearing like lattice- 
work. 
Ccvnedcent. White or hoary. 
Cap 1 illary. Hair-Jike. 
Cap'Hate. 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 samara. 
Carccr'ular. (From career , prison.) 
A seed contained in a covering, 
whose sides are compressed. One of 
MirbePs genera of fruits, in the order 
Care era! ares. 
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. 
Car min' alive. A medicine used to dis¬ 
pel wind. 
Carno'sc. Of a fleshy consistence. 
Car 1 pel. A term used for the divisions 
of the fruit. Each carpel generally 
forms a distinct cell. 
Car'pos. From the Greek Jcarpos, fruit. 
CaryophyVIcons. Pink-like 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. 
Cdu'clex. The main body of a tree, or 
. root. 
Camles'cent. Having a stem exclusive 
of the peduncle or scape. 
Cau'line. Growing on the main stem. 
Cdu'tis. 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, &c. 
