The Names of Plants

Glossary Boronia for Francesco Boroni (d. 1794), assistant to Humphrey Sibthorp in Greece Borreria, borreri for William Borrer (1781–1862), British botanist borszczovii, borszczowii for I. G. Borszczov (Borshchow) (1833–78), Russian explorer of Turkestan boryanus -a -um, boryi for Baron J. B. M. Bory de St Vincent (1780–1846), French traveller and naturalist borysthenicus -a -um from the environs of the Dnieper River (Greek, borusqenhj), Belarus and Ukraine boschianus -a -um for J. van der Bosch (1807–54), Governor General of the Dutch E Indies Boscia, boscii for Louis A. G. Bosc (1759–1828), French professor of Agriculture bosniacus -a -um from Bosnia, E Europe Boswellia for Dr James Boswell (later Lord Auchinleck) (1740–95), lawyer, diarist and biographer of Samuel Johnson (Boswellia sacra, frankincense) bothrio- minutely pitted-, pitted-, boqroj Bothriochloa Pitted-grass, boqrio-xloh (the pitted lower glume of some) botry-, botrys bunched-, panicled-, botruj, botrubotrycephalus -a -um having a clustered head of flowers, botru-kefalh Botrychium Little-bunch, botruxion,the fertile portion of the frond of moonwort botryodes, botryoides, botrys resembling a bunch of grapes, grape-like, botrujwdhj, botruj-oeidhj botryosus -a -um having many flower clusters, botruj Botrytis, botrytis -is -e Grape-like, botruj (the microscopic appearance of the massed conidia on their conidiophores), or smelling fruity botrytis -is -e racemose, racemed, bunched, botruj botuliformis -is -e sausage-shaped, alantoid, botulus-forma botulinus -a -um shaped like small sausages, botulus (branch segments) Bouchea for C. D. Bouche (1809–81) Bougainvillea for Louis Antoine de Bougainville (1729–1811), French naval officer and circumnavigator (1766–9) bourgaei, bourgaeanus -a -um, bourgeauianus -a -um for Eugene Bourgeau (1813–77), French traveller and collector bourgatii for M. Bourgat, who collected in the Pyrenees c. 1866 Boussingaultia for Boussingault (1802–87), French chemist who recognized the plant’s need for a supply of nitrogenous material (artificial fertilizers) Bouteloua for Claudio (1774–1842) and Esteban Boutelou (1776–1813) bovarius -a -um of cattle, bos, bovis (vide boarius) bovicornutus -a -um Ox-horned, bovis-cornu (the leaf marginal processes) bovinus -a -um of, or affecting cattle, bos, bovis bowdenii for the collector, Athelstan Bowden, who first sent Nerine bowdenii to his mother in Newton Abbot in 1902 Bowenia for Sir George Fergusson Bowen (1821–99), first Governor of Queensland (1859), New Zealand (1863), Victoria (1877) Bowiea for J. Bowie (1789–1869), who collected in Brazil for Kew Bowkeria, bowkeri for James Henry Bowker (1822–1900) and his sister Mary Elizabeth, S African botanists bowringianus -a -um for J. C. Bowring (1821–93), orchidologist of Windsor boydii for William B. Boyd (1831–1918), rock gardener of Faldonside, Melrose, Scotland Boykinia for Samuel Boykin (1786–1846), American field botanist of Milledgville, Georgia, USA brachi-, brachy- short-, braxuj, braxubrachialis -is -e about 18 inches in length, arm-like, braxuj, bracchium brachiatus -a -um branched at about a right-angle, widely branching, brachialis Brachyachne Short-chaff, braxu-axnh (the minute spikelets) brachyandrus -a -um short stamened, braxu-androj brachyantherus -a -um having short stamens, braxuj-anqhroj 75