Neck-cells 



nervalis 



(4) the elongated portion of the em- 

 bryo sac or archegonium ; <*- Cells 

 in the archegonium of Bryophytes, 

 the drawn-out portion, as distinct 

 from the venter. 



neck'lace-shaped, moniliform. 



necrocoleopteropli'ilous (veKpbs, dead, 

 -fColeopteron; </>iX<?o>, I love), when 

 fertilised by carrion beetles ; ne- 

 crog'enous, -us (yfros, offspring), 

 applied to certain fungoid parasites 

 which hasten the decay of the 

 plants on which they live ; necro- 

 ph'agous (<f>dyw, I eat), applied to 

 saprophytes ; Nec'roplasm (ir\d<rfj,a, 

 moulded), the homologue of proto- 

 plasm in a dead seed ; Nec'roplast, 

 a protoplast whose organisation has 

 suffered irreparable injury and is 

 dead; Necro'sis, (1) canker in plants; 

 (2) used by Escombe as meaning 

 the death of an organism. 



Nec'tar (vtKTap, the drink of the gods), 

 a sweet fluid extruded from various 

 parts of the plant ; in the flower it 

 is called honey ; ~ Glands, the se- 

 creting organs which produce the 

 nectar ; <~ Guides, lines of colour 

 leading to the nectary ; ~ Marks = 

 <~ GUIDES (Crozier) ; ~ Spots = ~ 

 GUIDES; Necta'rium, or Nec'tary, the 

 organ in which nectar is secreted, 

 formerly applied to any anomalous 

 part of a flower, as its spurred 

 petals; nectariferous -us (fero, I 

 bear), nectar-bearing ; Nectari'nus, 

 = NECTARY ; Nectarily'ma (ei'Xtfw, I 

 wrap round), any appendages to a 

 nectary, as the long hairs in Meny- 

 anthes ; Nectarostig'ma (a-riy^a, a 



rt), some mark or depression in- 

 ating the presence of a nectari- 

 ferous gland ; Nectarothe'ca (0^/07, 

 a case), the portion of a flower 

 which immediately surrounds a 

 nectariferous pore. 



nee' die-shaped, acerose, acicular. 



neg'ative (negativus, that denies), im- 

 plying denial or absence of some 

 quality or substance; <~ Geot'ropism, 

 apogeotropism, the growing in a 

 contrary direction to gravitation ; 

 "- Heliot'ropism, apheliotropism, 



shunning the light ; *- Pres'sure, 

 when gases in plants are at a lower 

 tension than air, in consequence of 

 the withdrawal of water. 



Ne'ma (J^/ACI, a thread), a filament ; 

 Ne'meae, " Cryptogams whose spor- 

 ules elongate into a thread-like 

 form in germination" (Henslow) ; 

 cf. NEMOBLASTUS ; Ne'mathece, 

 Nemathe'cium (0^*17, a case), a 

 wart-like elevation of the surface in 

 some Algae containing antheridia 

 and paraphyses or cystocarps. 



Ne'matodes (j^/xaTw^s, thread-like), 

 Confervae. 



Ne'matogone (v^a., a thread, yovr], 

 off-spring) ; Correns's term for an 

 asexually produced gemma on the 

 protonema of Mosses ; ne'meous, 

 thread-like, filamentous (Crozier) ; 

 Nematomy'ces (fj,v KT/S, a mushroom), 

 a synonym of Hyphomycetous 

 Fungi ; Nemoblas'tus (/JXaards, a 

 bud), used by Willdenow to in- 

 clude Mosses and Ferns. 



nemora'lis (Lat., sylvan), inhabit- 

 ing woods and groves ; nem'orose, 

 nemoro'sus (Lat., full of woods), 

 used as if a synonym of ne- 

 moralis. 



neogae'an, neogae'us (veos, new, yij, 

 earth), New World, that is, Ameri- 

 can or West Indian ; cf. AMPHI- 



GAEAN, GEBONTOGAEAN ; Ne'oplast 



(7rXacrr6s,moulded), a new individual 

 arising from one or more previously 

 existing protoplasts, as the fer- 

 tilised egg-cell (Hanstein). 



neph'roid, nephroi'deus (ve<ppos, the 

 kidneys, eldos, like), reniform, kid- 

 ney-shaped ; Nephros'ta, Necker's 

 term for the sporangia of Lyco- 

 podium. 



Ne'reids, a mythologic name used by 

 Warming to designate water-loving 

 plants which grow on rocks and 

 stones. 



neri'tic (J^/H'T^S, son of Nereus), applied 

 to plankton which is coastal. 



nerva'lis (Lat., pertaining to the 

 nerves), (1) synonym of loculicidal, 

 the dehiscence being along the 

 midrib of the carpels ; (2) relating 



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