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GLOSSARY. 



Moncecioua; ■with male and female 

 flowers on the same plant, but 

 not in the same receptacle. 



Mucro; an abrupt short point con- 

 tinuous with the costa. 



Mucronate ; tipped with a mucro. 



Mucronulate ; with a very small 

 niucio. 



Multijid; many-parted, or many 

 times divided for a portion of the 

 length. 



Muricate; having the surface 

 rough with short hard points. 



Muticoun; pointless, blunt. 



Neck ; see CoUwn. 

 Nerve; see Midrib. 

 Nodose, A'odulotie; knotty. 



Ohconical; conical inversed. 06 

 prefixed to words usually signifies 

 inversion. 



Olovate; inverted ovate, the nar- 

 row end at the base. 



Obsolete ; scarcely apparent. 



Operculum; see Lid. 



Ovate; shaped like an egg. 



Panduriform ; fiddle-shaped. 



Papillate, Papillose; covered with 

 small nipjile-shaped pi'otuber- 

 ances {papilla'). 



Paraplnjllia; small thin leaves or 

 hair-like appendages attached to 

 the slom. 



Parapliysate ; having paraphyses. 



Paraplnjses; minute jointed fila- 

 ments, accompanying the arclie- 

 gonia and antheridia. 



Parenchymatous ; composed of 

 broad cells applied end to end. 



Paro'cious; witli male and female 

 flowers placed close together. 



Patent; spreading open. 



Pectinate; divided or branched 

 like a comb. 



Pedicel; the stalk of the capsule. 



Pedicellate; furnished with a ped- 

 icel. 



Pendulous; somewhat hanging or 

 drooping, more so than cernu- 

 ous. 



Percurrent (costa); extending 

 through the entire length of the 

 leaf. 



Perforate; pierced with holes. 



Pericliaitium; tlie involucre of the 

 female flower; the cluster of 

 leaves at the base of the pedicel or 

 of tlie capsule, wlien sessile, and 

 surrounding the vaginule. 



Perigonium; Invohicral leaves or 

 scales of the male flower. 



Peristome; fringe of teeth, etc., at 

 the orifice of the capsule. 



Persistent; not easily or soon fall- 

 ing away. 



Plane ; flat. 



Pleurocarpi; mosses having axil- 

 lary flowers, and the fruit lateral 

 upon the stems or branches. 



Plicate; folded lengthwise. 



Pol)/(ja)nous; with barren and fer- 

 tile flowers variously disposed on 

 the same plant. 



PoUjpliyllous; many-leaved. 



Pri)nordial; earliest formed. 



Processes; principal divisions of 

 the inner peristome; segments. 



JVoc?N;(6(?)ii;trailingon the ground. 



Prolijeroiis; bearing yoiuig shoots 

 from the head or cluster of 

 flowers. 



ProsenclnjmatouR ; composed of 

 narrow cells whose ends overlap 

 each other. 



Prothallium; confervoid filaments 

 arising from the germination of 

 the spore, or in some mosses pre- 

 ceding the t'orniation of buds by 

 rootlets. 



Pseudopodium; the false pedicel 

 or elongation of the vaginule sup- 

 porting the capside of Spli(i(/)nini; 

 also applied to the granules of 

 Aulaconinium. 



Pidvinate; cushioned or shaped 

 like a pillow. 



Punctate, Punctulafe; marked 

 with small opaque dots. 



Pnnctiform; dot-like. 



Pyriform; pear-shaped. 



Quadrate; square. 



Badicles; small rooting filaments; 

 ends of the roots or rootlets. 



Padicidose ; covered with radicles. 



liiimosc; blanching. 



Jlamulose; bearing branchlets. 



lieccptaclc; the axis or support of 

 a flower. 



Heflexed ; abruptly bent back. 



Uepand; wavy-mai'gined. 



Reticulate; with veins forming a 

 net-work; mesh-like. 



Rctuse; with the apex not only ob- 

 tuse but somf'what in<lented. 



Rhizoma; creeping subteri'anean 

 stem. 



Rostellate; having a short beak. 



Rostrate; with a beak. 



