The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany Volume 3; Illustrated by Select Specimens of Foreign and Indigenous Plants (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1816 Excerpt: ...Having parallel hairs, or tufts of hairs. BEADED. A term used by Dr. Withering for granulosus. BICAPSULARIS. Two Capsuhe. Tricapsularis, &c. three Capsulae, according to the number. Bicornes. Plants whose antherae have the appearance of two horns. The name of the 24th Order in Linnaeus's Fragments of a natural arrangement. Biennis radix. A root which continues to vegetate for two years, and then perishes. In biennial plants the root and leaves are formed during the first year, in the second, the fructification is completed. Bifaria folia. Each leaf pointing two ways, or coming out only on opposite sides of a branch. Biferae plantce. Flowering twice a year. "Biferique rosaria Peesti." Virg. See Vol. II. p. 249. Bifidium folium. A leaf divided or cloven into two parts, twocleft. Biflorus pedunculis. Bearing two flowers on a foot-stalk. Bigeminum folium. A forked foot-stalk, with two little leaves on the apex of each division. Bijugum folium. A winged leaf, bearing two pair of leaflets. Bilabiata corolla. A corolla with two lips, as in the Class Didy namia. Bilamellatum stigma. The form of a flatted sphere longitudinally two-cleft. Bilobum folium. A leaf consisting of two lobes. Bilocularis. Two cells, &c. according to the number. Bina folia. Two-fold leaves; or rather coming out two and two together from the same place, or at the same joint of a branch. Binatum folium. Having a simple foot-stalk connecting two leaflets at the top of it: a kind of digitate leaf. Bipartile. Divisible into two: as the fruit of umbellate plants, into two seeds. Bipartium folium. A leaf divided into two segments or parts, almost down to the base. Bipinnatifidum folium. Double pinnatifid, as in Papnver argemone, Sowerby's Eng. Bot. Fig. 643. Bipinnatum folium. Dou...