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nemoro'sa ; pertaining to a grove, but not so good a name 

 as the last, for the strict meaning is (a country) full 

 of groves. I use the word grove in preference to wood 

 as a distinction between nemorosa and sylvatica, 

 though we call Anemone nemorosa, Wood Anemone. 



nem'orum; of groves. 



ni'ger, ni'gra, ni'grum ; black. 



nigres'cens ; blackish. 



nigritel'lus; literally black earth, or black country, but 

 applied to a species of Eush called the Black-headed 

 Jointed Eush. 



ni'tens ; shining. 



ni'tidus ; shining, or luxuriant. 



nivalis; pertaining to snow. Applied, for example, to a 

 beautiful Alpine Gentian. 



no'bilis ; noble, excellent, superior. 



noctiflo'ra ; night-flowering. 



nodiflo'rus ; flowering at the nodes. The node, as a bota- 

 nical term, is that part of a stem from which a leaf- 

 bud proceeds. The word nodus means knot, and 

 thus stems may be said to be divided into varying 

 lengths by nodes, knots, or joints. 



nudicau'lis ; naked-stemmed. 



nudiflo'rus ; naked-flowered. Well applied to plants which 

 flower at times when the leaves have disappeared, or 

 have not yet grown, as autumnal Crocus, and our 

 garden Yellow Jasmine. 



nu'tans ; nodding. 

 *nymph8eoi'des; Nymphsea-like. Nymphsea, Water-lily. 



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oblon'gus; oblong. 



obtusiflo'rus ; blunt-flowered. Thus there are contrasted 

 Juncus obtusiflorus and J. acutiflorus. 



