Articulations. Joints; the places at which articulated members are separable.
Ascending; rising from the ground obliquely.
Assurgent; rifling in a curve from a declined base. Attenuated; tapering gradually until it becomes slender. Auriculate; having rounded appendages at base, like ears. Awn. A slender bristle-like process, common on the chaff of grasses; sometimes on anthers, etc.
Awned; furnished with awns, or bristle-like appendages. Awnless; destitute of awns.
Axil. The angle between a leaf and stem, or branch on the upper side.
Axillury; growing in, or proceeding from, the aril.
Axis; A central stem, or peduncle; or, a real or imaginary central line extending Irom the base to the summit. Baccate. Berried; becoming fleshy or succulent, like a berry.
Bald akenes. Naked at summit; destitute of pappua or crown.
Banner. The broad upper petal of a papilionaceous flower; called, also, the vexilluce.
Barb. A straight process, armed with one or more teeth pointing backwards.
Basal; originating at, or affixed to, the base of another Bea terminal process, like a bird's bill.
Beaked; having, or terminating in a beak.
Bearded; crested or furnished with parallel hairs ; the term is applied, also, to awned wheat, sic.
Berry. A pulpy valveless fruit, in which the seeds are imbedded.
Bi; in composition, meaning two or twice; as Bibracteate; having twu•racts.
Bibracteolate; having two small bracts, bractlets, or bracteoles.
Bicarinate; having two keels.
Bicuspidate; ending in two sharp points or cusps. Bidentate; furnished with two teeth.
Biennial; living two years (in the second of which the flowers and fruit are produced), and then dying. Bifarious; in two series, or opposite rows; pointing in two directions.
MO; two cleft. or split into two segmeata.
Biloffete; having or producing two leaves.
Bifurcate. Forked • ending in two equal branches. Bi-gibbous; having two haunches. or gibbous productions. Bi-glandular; having or producing two glands.
Pt-lactate; having two lips.
Bilamellate ; having two iamellie, or thin plates.
Bilocular ; having two cells.
Bipartible ; separable into two parts.
Bipartite; two-parted.
Bipinnate leaf. Twice pinnate; the common petiole hav ing opposite branches, and those branches bearing opposite articolated leaflets.
Biptenatifld leaf. The common petiole bearing opposite pinnatifid segments.
Bi-roslrate; having two beaks.
Bi-setose ; baying two bristles.
Bisulcate; having two grooves or furrows.
Biternate leaf. Twice ternate; the common petiole three parted, and each division or branch bearing three leaflets. Bivalved; having two valves.
Biventricose; having two-bellied, or distended portions. Bloom. A fine powdery coating on certain fruits, etc., as the plum.
Border; the summit or upper spreading part of a calyx or corolla.
Bowl-shaped; hemispherical and concave, or hollow, like a bowl.
Brachiate; having the breaches spreading, opposite and decussate.
Bract. A floral leaf; a modified leaf, from the axil of which arises the flower-branch, or peduncle.
Bracteate; furnished with bracts, or modified leaves a along Or near the flowers.
Bracteoles, or bractlets. Small bracts.
Bractless; destitute of bracts.
Branchlets. Small branches, or subdivisions of branches. Bristles. Stiffish elastic hairs, straight or hooked.
Bud. A growing point. or undeveloped covered with the rudiments of leaves.
Bulb. A kind of bud, formed of fleshy scales, or coats, and usually under ground—sometimes in the axis of the leaves.
Butblferous; bearing or producing bulbs.
Bulbous ; formed of, or like a bulb.
Bullate leaf; having bubble like convexities on the upper surface, with corresponding cavities beneath.
•aducus; falling off immediately, or earlier than usual for such organs.
Calcarate. Spurred; having a process like a horn, or spar ; usually hollow.
Callous; ti m and gristle-like.
Callus. A compact. gristle-like tubercle, or substance. Calyciform; shaped like a calyx.
Calyculate; having an additional (usually small) outer calyx.
Ca/yytra. The cap or hood (resembling the extinguisher of a candle), on the fructification of the mosses.