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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’nes. Anthers with twe thorns. 
Bi'dens. Having two teeth. : 
Bien’nial. Living two years, in the second of which the flower and 
fruit are produced; as in wheat. 
Bvfid. Two parted. 
Bila’biate. Corolla with two lips. 
Bipin/nate. Twice pinnate. 
Biter’nate. Twice ternate. The petiole supporting three ternate 
leaves. 
Bi'valve. ‘Two valved. 
Border. ‘The brim or spreading part of a corolla. 
Bot’rus. A cluster, like grapes. 
Brach’iate. Branches opposite, and each pair at right angles with the 
preceding. 
Bract. Floral; 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 hair, 
they are called coma. 
Branch. A division of the main stem or main root. 
Branch‘let. Subdivision of a branch, a twig. 
Brevis. Short. 
Bud. The residence of the infant leaf and flower. 
Bulbs. A kind of roots; sometimes found growing on the stem; 
strictly speaking, bulbs are buds, or the winter residence of the fu- 
ture plants. A bulb contains in miniature or embryo, a plant simi- 
lar to the parent plant. Plants may be renewed from bulbs as well 
as seeds. Annual plants do not have bulbs; they are only pre- 
served by seeds. 
Bundle. See Fascicle. 
C. 
Caducous, (from cado, to fall.) Falling early; as the calyx of the 
oppy. 
idee Forming tufts, several roots growing together. 
Calamus. Reed like. 
Calcareous. Containing lime; as in the shells of oysters, &c. 
Calyculated. Having an additional calyx. 
Calyptra. ‘The cap or hood of pistillate mosses, resembling an ex- 
tinguisher set on a candle. Although called a calyx, it is in reality 
the corolla of the moss closed. 
Calyx. From the Greek, signifying a flower cup: in most plants it 
incloses, and supports the bottom of the corolla. It is defined by 
Linnezus to be the termination of the outer bark. 
Cam’biwm. ‘The descending sap, which every year forms a new layer 
of bark and one of wood. It descends between the bark and th:, 
wood, so that the new wood is formed externally, and the new baré 
internally. 
