APPENDIX, . 1105 
Br- or Bis-. A Latin prefix signifying two or twice—as bibracteate, having two bracts : 
bidentate, with two teeth. | 
BrennraAu. A plant which lives only two years, 
Brrarious. Arranged in two opposite rows or ranks; distichous, 
Birip. Two-cleft ; divided half-way into two. 
Brasiate. Divided into lips, as is the case with many gamopetalous corollas. 
BrtocuLaR. Two-celled. 
Binatse. Applied to leaves composed of two leaflets at the end of a common petiole, 
or to a single leaf almost divided into two. 
BreartiTe. Divided nearly to the base into two parts. 
BirINNATE. ‘Twice pinnate; when both the primary and secondary divisions of a 
leaf are pinnate. 
BIseRRATE. Doubly serrate, as when the serratures themselves are serrate. 
BITERNATE. ‘Twice ternate. 
Biape. The expanded portion of a leaf. 
Bract, A modified leaf subtending a flower or a cluster of flowers; modified leaves 
placed in the space between the calyx and the true leaves. 
BRACTEATE. Furnished with bracts. 
BracTEOLE. <A secondary bract upon the pedicel of a flower ; a small bract. 
BRACTEOLATE. Furnished with bracteoles. 
Brancu. A division of the stem or main axis. 
BRANCHLET. A small branch ; the ultimate division of a branch. 
BristLte. A stiff hair. 
BRISTLE-POINTED. Ending in a stiff, bristle-like hair. 
Bup. The early stage of a flower or branch. 
Buts. A rounded subterranean body formed of fleshy scales or coatings; in reality 
a modified bud which ultimately develops leaves and flowers. 
Buusous. Having bulbs, or possessing the structure of a bulb. 
Butuate. Blistered or puckered, as the leaf of Myrtus bullata. 
Capucous, Falling away early ; not at all persistent. 
CAESPITOSE. Growing in tufts somewhat in the same way as grass. 
CALCARATE. Provided with a spur. 
Cattosiry. A thickened and hardened swell’ng on the surface of any organ. 
Cattus. (1.) Any abnormally thickened part. (2.) In grasses, applied to a swelling. 
or extension of the flowering glumes at their insertion on the axis or rhachilla of 
the spikelet. 
CaLycrne. Pertaining to or resembling a calyx. 
CaLycuLaTe. Having a whorl of bracts outside the true calyx and resembling it. 
CALYPTRATE. Hood-like, or bearing a hood or cap. 
CaLtyx. The outer series of floral envelopes. 
CAMPANULATE. LBell-shaped. 
CAMPYLOTROPAL, CAMPYLOTROPOUS. Applied to an ovule when one end has grown 
faster than the other, so as to cause the apex (or micropyle) to curve inwards and 
approach the hilum. 
CANALICULATE. Having a longitudinal groove or channel. 
CAPILLARY. Very slender and hair-like. 
CapitatE. (1.) Having a rounded head. (2.) Growing in heads, as the flowers of 
Compositae. 
CAPITELLATE. The diminutive of “ capitate.” 
CapsuLe. A dry many-seeded seed-vessel, splitting into valves. 
CapsuLaR. Having fruit of the nature of a capsule. 
Carina. The name applied to the keel, or the two cohering anterior petals of a 
papilionaceous flower. 
CARINATE. Keeled. 
CarRPEL. A simple pistil, or that element of a compound pistil which answers to a 
single leaf. 
CARPOPHORE. A portion of the axis or receptacle elongated between the carpels and 
protruding beyond them, as in Geraniwm and many Umbelliferae. 
JARTILAGINOUS. Firm and tough; resembling cartilage. 
CaruncLe, A wart or prominence near the base or hilum of a seed. 
CARUNCULATE. Having a caruncle. 
Caryorsis. A small one-celled and one-seeded fruit with a thin, cl®&ely adherent 
pericarp ; the fruit of grasses. 
Catktn. A deciduous spike consisting of unisexual apetalous flowers. 
CaupaTE. Tailed ; drawn out into a tail-like appendage. 
