GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 213 



Naked, wanting nome usual covering, as achlaraydeous flowers, 86, gymnospermous 

 seeds, 109, 125, &c. 



Xaiin .< in botany, IT'.'. 



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 Btring of beads; Bee moniUform. 



Nectar, the sweet Becretion 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 

 Bhape, especially when honey-bearing. Bo the hollow Bpur-ehaped petals of 

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

 hood, 87, &c. 



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



Ntmorose or Nemoral, inhabiting groves. 



X, >-r< , a name for the ribs or vein- of leaves when ^1 n i j »!•• and parallel, 50. 



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



Nervose, conspicuously nerved. Nervulose, minutely nervose. 



Netted-veined, furnished with branching veins forming network, f»0, 51. 



Neuter, Neutral, sexless. Neutral flower, T'.». 



Nigi r, Latin for black. Nigricans, Latin for verging to black. 



Nitid, Bhining 



Nival, living in or near snow. Nivt us, snow-white. 



Nodding, bending bo that the summit hangs downward. 



Node, a knot; tho "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, 17'.». 



Normal, according to rule, natural. 



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



Nucamentaceous, relating to or resembling a small nut 



Nudform, nut-shaped or nut-like. 



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



Nucule, same as nutlet. 



Nude, (Latin. Nadus), naked. So Nudicaulis, naked-stemmed, &C. 



Nut, Latin Nux, a hard, mostly one-seeded indehisceiit 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- 

 compntHd, flattened the opposite of the usual way: Obcordate, heart-shaped, 

 with the broad and notched end at the apex instead of the l»ase, 54; OUance- 

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



Oblique, applied t<> leaves. Sec, mean- unequal-sided. 



Oblong, from two to four time- a- long a- broad, 59. 



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



Obtuse, blunt or round at the end, 54. 



Obverm , same a- invent, 



ObvoluU (in the bud), when the margins id one piece or leaf alternately overlap 

 those of the opposite one. 



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



Ochroleucous, yellowish-white: dull cream-color. 



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



Octo-, i.atin for eight, enters into the composition of Octagynous, with eight pi-tils 

 or styles; Octanun-us, its parts In eights; Uclandrous, with eight stamen-, fiec. 



