Neck-cells 



nervalis 



(4) the elongated portion of the em- 

 bryo sac or archegonium ; < Cells 

 in the archegonium of Bryophytes, 

 the drawn-out portion, as distinct 

 from the venter. 



necklace-shaped, moniliform. 



necrocoleopteroph'ilous (veKpbs, dead, 

 + Coleopteron; <pi\<:w, I love), when 

 fertilised by carrion beetles ; ne- 

 crog'enous, -its (7^09, offspring), 

 applied to certain fungoid parasites 

 which hasten the decay of the 

 plants on which they live ; necro- 

 phagous (<pdyu, I eat), applied to 

 saprophytes ; Nec'roplasm (Tr\da/j.a, 

 moulded), the analogue of proto- 

 plasm in a dead seed ; Nec'roplast, 

 a protoplast whose organisation has 

 suffered irreparable injury and is 

 dead; Necro'sis, (1) canker inplants; 

 (2) used by Escombe as meaning 

 the death of an organism. 



Nec'tar (ve/crap, the drink of the gods), 

 a sweet fluid extruded from various 

 parts of the plant ; in the flower it 

 is called honey ; ~ Glands, the se- 

 creting organs which produce the 

 nectar ; <- Guides, lines of colour 

 leading to the nectary ; <~ Marks = 

 GUIDES (Crozier) ; ~ Spots = <~ 

 GUIDES; Necta'rium, or Nec'tary, the 

 organ in which nectar is secreted, 

 formerly applied to any anomalous 

 part of a flower, as its spurred 

 petals; nectariferous -us (fero, I 

 bear), nectar-bearing ; Nectari'nus, 

 = NECTARY ; Nectarily'ma (et'Xtfw, I 

 wrap round), any appendages to a 

 nectary, as the long hairs in Meny- 

 mithcs ; Nectarostig'ma (ffriyfjLa, a 

 spot), some mark or depression in- 

 dicating the presence of a nectari- 

 ferous gland ; Nectarothe'ca (#77(07, 

 a case), the portion of a flower 

 which immediately surrounds a 

 nectariferous pore. 



nee'dle-shaped, acerose, acicular. 



neg'ative (negativus, that denies), im- 

 plying denial or absence of some 

 quality or substance; ~ Geot'ropism, 

 apogeotropiam, the growing in a 

 contrary direction to gravitation ; 

 ~* Heliot'ropism, apheliotropism, 



shunning the light ; <~ Pres'sure, 

 when gases in plants are at a lower 

 tension than air, in consequence of 

 the withdrawal of water. 



Ne'ma (vij/j-a, a thread), a filament ; 

 Ne'meae, " Cryptogams whose spor- 

 ules elongate into a thread-like 

 form in germination " (Henslow) ; 

 cf. NEMOBLASTUS : Ne'mathece, 

 Nemathe'cium (077/1-77, a case), a 

 wart-like elevation of the surface in 

 some Algae containing antheridia 

 and paraphyses or cystocarps. 



Ne'matodes (^T/^arwo^s, thread-like), 

 Confervae. 



Ne'rnatogone (vrj/j-a, a thread, 701/77, 

 off-spring) ; Correns's term for an 

 asexually produced gemma on the 

 protonema of Mosses ; ne'meous, 

 thread-like, filamentous (Crozier) ; 

 Nematomy'ces (MU/O/S, a mushroom), 

 a synonym of Hyphomycetous 

 Fungi ; Nemoblas'tus (/SAaoros, a 

 bud), used by Willdenow to in- 

 clude Mosses and Ferns. 



nemora'lis (Lat., sylvan), inhabit- 

 ing woods and groves ; nem'orose, 

 nemoro'sus (Lat., full of woods), 

 used as if a synonym of ne- 

 moralis. 



neogae'an, neogae'its (veos, new, 777, 

 earth), New World, that is, Ameri- 

 can or West Indian ; cf. AMPHI- 



GAEAN, GERONTOGAEAN ; Ne'oplast 



(TrXacrros.moulded), a new individual 

 arising from one or more previously 

 existing protoplasts, as the fer- 

 tilised egg-cell (Hanstein). 



neph'roid, nephroi'deus (veippos, the 

 kidneys, eZSos, like), reniform, kid- 

 ney-shaped ; Nephros'ta, Necker's 

 term for the sporangia of Lyco- 

 podium. 



Ne'reids, a mythologic name used by 

 Warming to designate water-loving 

 plants which grow on rocks and 

 stones. 



neri'tic (vripi-nj^, son of Nereus), applied 

 to plankton which is coastal. 



nervalis (Lat., pertaining to the 

 nerves), (1) synonym of loculicidal, 

 the dehiscence being along the 

 midrib of the carpels ; (2) relating 



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