GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 213 



Naked, wanting some usual covering, as achlamydeous flowers, 86, gymnospermous 

 seeds, 109, 125, &c. 



Names in botany, 179. 



Nanus, Latin for dwarf 



Napiform, turnip-shaped, 35. 



Natural System, 182. 



Naturalized, introduced from a foreign country, and flourishing wild. 



Navicular, boat-shaped, like the glumes of most Grasses. 



Necklace-shaped , looking like a string of beads; see moniliform. 



Nectar, the sweet secretion in flowers from which bees make honey, &c. 



Nectariferous, honey-bearing; or having a nectary. 



Nectary, the old name for petals and other parts of the flower when of unusual 

 shape, especially when honey-bearing. So the hollow spur-shaped petals of 

 Columbine were called nectaries; also the curious long-clawed petals of Monks- 

 hood, 87, &c. 



Needle-shaped, long, slender, and rigid, like the leaves of Pines. 



Nemorose or Nemoral, inhabiting groves. 



Nerve, a name for the ribs or veins of leaves when simple and parallel, 50. 



Nerved, furnished with nerves, or simple and parallel ribs or veins, 50. 



Nervose, conspicuously nerved. Ncrvulose, minutely nervose. 



Netted-veined, furnished with branching veins forming network, 50, 51 



Neuter, Neutral, sexless. Neutral flower, 79. 



Niger, Latin for black. Nigricans, Latin for verging to black. 



Nitid, shining. 



Nival, living in or near snow. Niveus, snow-white. 



Nodding, bending so that the summit hangs downward. 



Node, a knot; the "joints" of a stem, or the part whence a leaf or a pair of leaves 

 springs, 13. 



Nodose, knotty or knobby. Nodulose, furnished with little knobs or knots. 



Nomenclature, 175, 179. 



Normal, according to rule, natural. 



Notate, marked with spots or lines of a different color. 



Nucamentaceous, relating to or resembling a small nut. 



Nuciform, nut-shaped or nut-like. 



Nucleus, the kernel of an ovule (110) or seed (127) of a cell. 



Nucule, same as nutlet. 



Nude, (Latin. Nudus), naked. So Nudicaulis, naked-stemmed, &c. 



Nut, Latin Nux, a hard, mostly one-seeded indehiscent fruit; as a chestnut, butter- 

 nut, acorn, 121. 



Nutant, nodding. 



Nutlet, a little nut; or the stone of a drupe. 



Ob- (meaning over against), when prefixed to words signifies inversion; as, Ob- 

 compressed, flattened the opposite of the usual way; Obcordate, heart-shaped, 

 with the broad and notched end at the apex instead of the base, 54; Oblance- 

 olate, lance-shaped with the tapering point downwards, 52. 



Oblique, applied to leaves, &c, means unequal-sided. 



Oblong, from two to four times as long as broad, 52. 



Obovate, inversely ovate, the broad end upward, 53. Obovoid, solid obovate. 



Obtuse, blunt or round at the end, 54. 



Obverse, same as inverse. 



Obvolute (in the bud), when the margins of one piece or leaf alternately overlap 

 those of the opposite one. 



Ocellate, with a circular colored patch, like an eye. 



Och7'oleucous, yellowish-white ; dull cream-color. 



Ocreate, furnished with Ocreai (boots), or stipules in the form of sheaths, 57. 



Octo-, Latin for eight, enters into the composition of Octagynous, with eight pistils 

 or styles; Octamerous, its parts in eights; Octandrous, with eight stamens, &c- 



