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nacrog'enous, -us {yevos, offspring), 

 applied to certain fungoid parasites 

 which hasten the decay of the plants 

 on which they live; necroph'agous 

 {(pdycj, I eat), applied to saprophytes; 

 Neo'roplasm {'ir\d(TiJ.a, moulded), the 

 homologue of protoplasm in a dead 

 seed ; Neo'roplaet, a proto[)last whose 

 organization has suffered irreparable 

 injury and is dead; Necro'sis, (1) 

 canker in plants ; (2) used by 

 Escorabe as meaning the death of 

 an organism ; Nec'rotype {tvitos, a 

 type), applied -to forms formerly 

 existing but now extinct ; fossil. 



Ifec'tar [v^Krap, the drink of the gods), 

 a sweet fluid extruded from various 

 parts of the plant ; in the flower it is 

 called honey; '~ Flow'ers, without 

 coloured perianth or petals, producing 

 Bticky pollen, as Salix ; ^- Glands, 

 the secreting organs which produce 

 the nectar; '- Guides, lines of colour 

 leading to the nectary ; ~ Marks = 

 '-' Guides (Crozier) ; ~ Spots = '- 

 Guides; Necta'rium, or Nec'tary, 

 (1) the organ in which nectar is 

 secreted, formerly ajtplied to any 

 anomalous part of a flower, as its 

 spurred petals ; (2) employed by 

 Linnaeus for the utricle of Carex ; 

 nectariferous, -us (fero, I bear), 

 nectar-bearing; Nectarily'ma (etAuw, 

 I wrap round), any appendages to a 

 nectary, as the long hairs in Meny- 

 anthcs ; Nectari'nus = Nectary ; 

 Nectarostig'ma {(rriyfia, a spot), 

 some mark or depression indicating 

 the presence of a nectariferous gland; 

 Nectarcthe'ca {dr^Kri, a case), the 

 portion of a flower which immediately 

 surrounds a nectariferous pore. 



Nec'tism {vnKrhs, swimming), swim- 

 ming by means of cilia, as zoospores; 

 Neo'ton, Haeckel's term for plankton 

 in active movement ; originally re- 

 stricted to animals. 



Nee'dle, the stiff linear leaf of Coni- 

 ferae ; doub'le <-- , the specially 

 metamorphosed leaf-organ of Sciado- 

 pitys ; -^ shaped, acerose, acicular. 



neg'ative {^ugativus, that denies), im- 

 plying denial or absence of some 



quality or substance ; -' Geot'ropism, 

 apogeotropism, the growing in a 

 contrary direction to gravitation ; 

 '-' Heliot'ropism, apheliotropism, 

 shunning light ; --' Pres'sure, when 

 gases in plants are at a lower 

 tension than air, in consequence of 

 the withdrawal of water. 



Neidioplank'ton {vnls, a nymph; -f 

 Plankton), Forel's term for plank- 

 ton organisms jwssessing swimming 

 apparatus. 



Ne'ism [veos, new), the origin of an 

 organ on a given place, as the 

 formation of roots in a cutting. 



Nek'ton = Necton. 



Ne'ma {vrjfj.a, a thread), a filament. 



Nemati'um, water margin plant-for- 

 mation (Ganong) ; cf. Namatium. 



Ne'ma thece, Nemathe'cium {vv/xk, a 

 thread ; Btik-tj, a case), a wart-like 

 elevation of the surface in some 

 Algae containing anthcridia and 

 paraphyses or cystocarps ; Ne'ma- 

 tablast (ySAoo-rby, a bud), = Nema- 

 toplast. 



Ne'matodes {wnfiano^ris, thread-like), 

 in botany, applied to Confervae. 



Ne'matogone {vvfia, a thread ; yovr], 

 offspring) ; Correns's term for au 

 asexually produced gemma on the 

 protonema of Mosses; adj. nemato- 

 g'enous; Ne'meae, "Cryptogams 

 whose sporules elongate into a 

 thread-like form in germination " 

 (J. S. Henslow); cf, Nemoblastus ; 

 ne'meous, thread-like, filamentous 

 (Crozier) ; Nematomy'ces (ixvic-ns, a 

 mushroom), a synonym of Hypho- 

 mycetous Fungi ; Ne'matoplast 

 {irXaa-rbs, moulded), thread-shaped 

 plastids observed in the cytoplasm 

 of Momordica Elateri'i.m ; Nemo- 

 blast'us (jSAoarbs, a bud), used by 

 Willdenow to include Mosses and 

 Ferns. 



nemoralis (Lat., sylvan), inhabit- 

 ing woods and groves ; nem'orose, 

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

 used as if a synonym of nemoralis. 



neogae'an, neogae'us {veos, new; yrj, 

 earth). New World, that is, Ameri- 

 can or West Indian; cf. amphi- 



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