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Naked, wanting some r.sual covering, as achlamydeous flowers, 8G, gymnospermou? 

 seeds, lO'J, 125, &c. 



A^ames in botany, 179. 



Niinus, Latin for dwarf 



Xajnfm-?n, turnip-shapca, 35. 



Natural System, 182. 



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



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



Necklace-sha/jcd, looking like a string of beads; see monilifovm. 



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



Nectariferous, honey-bearing; or having a nectary. 



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

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

 Columbine were called nectaries; also the curious long-claw'ed petals of Monks- 

 hood, 87, &c. 



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



Ntmorose or Nemoral, inhabiting groves. 



Nerve, a name for the ribs or veins of leaves when sini])le and parallel, 50. 



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



Nervose, conspicuously nerved. N'crvidose, ininutely nervose. 



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



Neuter, N'eutral, sexless. Neutral ^flower, 70. 



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



Nitid, shining. 



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



Noddin;;, bending so that the summit hangs downwara. 



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

 springs, 13. 



Nodose, knottj' or knobby. Nodulose, furnished with little knobs or knots. 



Nomenclature, 175, 179. 



Normal, according to rule, natural. 



N'utate, marked with spots or lines of a different color. 



Nucamentaceuus, 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 A^ux, a hard, mostly one-seeded indehiscent fruit; as a chestnut, butter- 

 nut, acorn, 121. 



Nntnnt, nodding. 



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



Ob- (meaning over againsti, when ])relixcd 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. 



Obion ff, from two to four times as long as broad, 52. 



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



Oldiise, 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 tiie opposite one. 



Ocellnte, with a circular colored patch, like an ej'e. 



Ochroleucous, yellowish-wliite ; didl cream-color. 



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



Oclo-, Latin for eight, enters into the composition of Octayynous, with eight pistils 

 or styles; Octnmerous, its parts in eights; Oclandrous, with eight stamens, (S:c. 



