Articulations. Joints; the places at which articulated members are separable.
Ascending; rising from the ground obliquely.
Assurgent; rising in a curve from a declined base. Attenuated; tapering gradually until it becomes slender. Auriculate; having rounded appeudagee at base, like ears. Awn. A slender bristle-like procees, common on the chaff of grasses; sometimes on anthers, etc.
Awned; furnished with awns, or bristle-like appendages. Awnless' destitute of awns.
Aril. The angle between a leaf and stem, or branch on the upper side.
Axillary; growing in, or proceeding from, the axil.
Axis; A central stem, or peduncle ; or, a real or imaginary central line extending from the base to the Baccate. Berried; becoming fleshy or succulent, like a berry.
Bald akenee. Naked at summit; destitute of pappus or crown.
Banner. The broad upper petal of a papilionaceous flower; called, also, the vexillum.
Barb. A straight process, armed with one or more teeth pointing backwards.
Basal; originating at, or affixed to, the base of another ran.
Beak. A 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, etc.
Berry. A pulpy valveless fruit, in which the seeds are imbedded.
Bi; in composition, meaning two or twice ; as Bibracteate; having two bracts.
Bibracteolate; having two small bracts, bractlets, or bracteoles.
Bicarinate; having two keels.
Bicuspidate; ending in two sharp points or clasps. 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.
Bifid,. two cleft, or split into two-segments.
Bifoliate; having or producing two leaves.
Bifurcate. Forked' ending in two eget. ',ranches. • having two haunches. or gibbous productions. Bi-glandular; having or producing two glands.
Bi-labiate • having two lips.
Bilamellate ; having two lamella;. or thin plates. Bilocular ; having two cells.
Bipartible; separable into two parts.
Bipartite ; two-parted.
Bipinnate leaf. Twice pinnate; the common petiole bay ing opposite branches, and those branches bearing opposite articulated leaflets.
Bipmnatifid leaf. The common petiole bearing opposite pinnatifld segments.
Bz-rostrate ; having two beaks.
Bi-setase: having two bristles.
Bisulcate; having two grooves or furrows.
Biternate leaf. TWics ternate • the common petiole three parted, and each division or branch bearing three leaflets. Bivalved; having two valves.
Biventricose; having or distended portions. loom. 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 branches spreading, opposite and decussate.
Bract. A floral leaf; a modified leaf, from the aril of which arises the flower-branch, or peduncle.
Bracteate; furnished with bracts, or modified leaven among or near. the flowers.
Brute°les, or bractlets. Small bracts.
Bractless; destitute of bracts. , Branchlets. Small branches, or aubdivisions of branches. Bristles. Stiffish elastic hairs, straight or' ooked.
Bud. A growing point, or undeveloped axis, covered with t Ile rudiments of leaves.
Bulb. A kind of bud, formed of fleshy scales, or coats, i and usually under ground—sometimes in the axis of the leaves.
Bulb fferous; bearing or producing bulbs.
Bulbous ; formed of, or like a bulb.
Bullets leaf; having bubble like convexities on the upper surface, with corresponding cavities beneath.
Caducus; falling off immediately, or earlier than usual for organs.
Calcerate. Spurred; having a process like a horn, or spur; hollow.
Callous; firm and gristle-like.
Callus. A compact, gristle-like tubercle, or substance. Ca 'yciforrn; Shaped like a calyx.
Calyculate; having an additional (usually small) outer calyx.
Ccelypire. The cap or hood (resembling the extinguisher et a candle), on the fructiflcatioo of the mosses.