GLOSSAEY. 



Monospermous : one-seeded. 



Monstrosity : an unnatural deviation from the usual structure or form. 



Mucronate : tipped with an abrupt short point (macro). 



Mucrtinulate : tipped with a minute abrupt point ; a diminutive of the last. 



Midti-, in composition : many ; as 



Multangular: many-angled. Mu/ticipital : many-headed, &c. 



Multifarious ; in many rows or ranks. Multifid: many-cleft. 



Multilticular : many -celled. Multiserial : in many rows. 



Mdricate : beset with short and hard points. 



Mdrifonn : wall-like ; resembling courses of bricks in a wall. 



Muticous : pointless ; beardless ; unarmed. 



Ndpiform : turnip-shaped. 



Naturalized : introduced from a foreign country, but growing perfectly wild 

 and propagating freely by seed. 



Namcular : boat-shaped, like the glumes of most Grasses. 



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



Nectar : the honey, &c. secreted by glands, or by any part of the corolla. 



Nectariferous : honey-bearing ; or having a nectary. 



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

 shape, especially whc'n honey-bearing. So the hollow spur-shaped petals 

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

 of Monkshood. 



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



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



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



Netted-veined : furnished with branching veins forming network. 



Nodding (in Latin form, Nutant) : bending so that the summit hangs down- 

 ward. 



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

 of leaves springs. 



Ndlose: knotty or knobby. Ntidulose: furnished with little knobs or knots. 



Normal: according to rule; the pattern or natural way according to some 

 law. 



Nut : a hard, mostly one-seeded indehiscent fruit ; as a chestnut, butternut, 

 acorn. 



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



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



Obcompressed : flattened the opposite of the usual way. 



Obcdrdale : heart-shaped with the broad and notched end at the apex instead 



of the base. 



Obldnceolate ; lance-shaped with the tapering point downwards. 

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

 Oblona: from two to four times as long as broad, and more or less elliptical 



in outline. 



Obduate : inversely ovate, the broad end upward. 

 Obtuse : blunt, or round at the end. 

 Obverse : same as inverse. 



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