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_Bifid._ Two-cleft.
_Bil.a.b.i.ate._ Two-lipped.
_Bilocellate._ Having two secondary cells.
_Bilocular._ Two-celled.
_Bis.e.xual._ Having both stamens and pistils.
_Bladdery._ Thin and inflated.
_Blade._ The limb or expanded portion of a leaf, etc.
_Bract._ A more or less modified leaf subtending a flower or belonging to an inflorescence, or sometimes cauline.
_Bracteate._ Having bracts.
_Bracteolate._ Having bractlets.
_Bracteose._ With numerous or conspicuous bracts.
_Bractlet._ A secondary bract, as one upon the pedicel of a flower.
_Bristle._ A stiff hair or any similar outgrowth.
_Bud._ The rudimentary state of a stem or branch; an unexpanded flower.
_Bulb._ A subterranean leaf-bud with fleshy scales or coats.
_Bulbiferous._ Bearing bulbs.
_Bulblet._ A small bulb, especially one borne upon the stem.
_Bulbous._ Having the character of a bulb.
_Caducous._ Falling off very early.
_Calcarate._ Produced into or having a spur.
_Callus._ A hard protuberance or callosity.
_Calyculate._ Having bracts around the calyx imitating an outer calyx.
_Calyptra._ The membranous hood or covering of the capsule in Hepaticae and Mosses.
_Calyx._ The outer perianth of the flower.
_Campanulate._ Bell-shaped; cup-shaped with a broad base.
_Campylospermous._ Having seeds with longitudinally involute margins, as in some Umbelliferae.
_Campylotropous_ (ovule or seed). So curved as to bring the apex and base nearly together.
_Ca.n.a.liculate._ Longitudinally channelled.
_Canescent._ h.o.a.ry with gray p.u.b.escence.
_Capitate._ Shaped like a head; collected into a head or dense cl.u.s.ter.
_Capitellate._ Collected into a small head.
_Capsular._ Belonging to or of the nature of a capsule.
_Capsule._ A dry dehiscent fruit composed of more than one carpel; the spore-case of Hepaticae, etc.
_Capsuliferous._ Capsule-bearing.
_Carinate._ Having a keel or a projecting longitudinal medial line on the lower surface.
_Carpel._ A simple pistil, or one member of a compound pistil.
_Cartilaginous._ Of the texture of cartilage; firm and tough.
_Caruncle._ An excrescence or appendage at or about the hilum of a seed.
_Carunculate._ Having a caruncle.
_Caryopsis._ A grain, as of gra.s.ses; a seed-like fruit with a thin pericarp adnate to the contained seed.
_Castaneous._ Of a chestnut color; brown.
_Catkin._ An ament.
_Caudate._ Having a slender tail-like appendage.
_Caudex._ The persistent base of an otherwise annual herbaceous stem.
_Caulescent._ Having a manifest stem.
_Cauline._ Belonging to the stem.
_Cavernous._ Hollow; full of air-cavities.
_Cell._ One of the minute vesicles, of very various forms, of which plants are formed. Any structure containing a cavity, as the cells of an anther, ovary, etc.
_Cellular_ (tissue). Composed of short transparent thin-walled cells, in distinction from fibrous or vascular.
_Cespitose._ Growing in tufts; forming mats or turf.
