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petals are more or less poisonous ; as tobacco, henbane, thorn-apple. 



E.YRATE, 16. 



LYRATE-PIJTNATE. Pinnute with the odd terminal leafet largest. 

 MAXY. Whenever 'here are more than are usually numbered ; as we 



say, 1- seeded, 2-seeded, 3-seeded, 4-s^eded, many-seeded. 

 MAHGINATED. Having a margin different in some measure from the 



disk. 



MATURE. Full-grown, but not entered upon a state of decay. 

 MEMBRAXACEOUS or MEMBRANE. Made up, appai-ntly, of the two 



plates of the cuticle, without any cellular integument between them. 



Nearly transparent, very thin ami often colourless. 

 MIDRIB". The main or middle rib of a leaf running from the stem to 



the apex. 

 MONCKCIOUS. Belonging to, or van, ing into, the class monacia. 



MojfOPKTAlOUS, 10. MONOPHYLLOUS, 9 



MOXSTBOUS. Plants producing nny part different from the same part, 

 when growing wild. As the rose has but five peials in a wild state ; 

 but by rich cultivation in gardens, the stamens are mostly changed 

 to petals. Carnations and peony are examples alse. These are all 

 monsters. 



MUCRONATE. Having a rounded end, tipped with a prickle ; which 

 often appears rather an extension of the midrib. 



MUIUCATE. Armed with sharp spines. Covered with subulate prick- 

 tea 



NAKED. Wanting a covering analagous to that of most plants. As 

 stem without leaves, leaves without pubescence, corol without a 

 calyx, seed without a pericarp, receptacle without chaff, pubes- 

 cens, &c. 



NARCOTICS. Those poisons which, in'small doses, stimulate at first and 

 promote secretions ; afterwards induce dulness and sleep. But in 

 large doses produce delirium, convulsions and death. Some narco- 

 tics inflame the stomach. 



NATAST. Floating 



NECTARY. That part of a flower, which secretes honey. It is either 

 a distinct horn, gland, spur, scale, cup, &c. or the claw or some 

 other part of the corol secreting honey. This name is applied to 

 any appendage to the flower, which has no other name. 



NERVED, 17. NEUTRAL, 13. 



NODDING. See nutans. 



NUCLEUS. Nut or kernell. The inner seed or kernel is properly the 

 nucleus ; and its hard shell is the putamen. But the whole includ- 

 ing both putamen and nucleus, is the nut, nux. 



NUT. See nucleus. 



NUTANT. nutana. Nodding. When above half of whatever it is ap> 

 plied to, droops or hangs down. 



NUTRIENTICS. Substances which serve for food. 



OBCORDATE, 15. 



OBLANCEOLATE. Lanceolote with the base narrowest. 



OBIIQ.UE, obliquus A position between horizontal and vertical ; Of 

 between the perpendicular and the plane of the base. It is also ap- 

 plied to leaves, petals, calyxes, &c. which are, as it were, cut obli- 

 quely ; or whose bases are shorter en one side than on the other. 



