XViii GLOSSARY. 
Monocarpovs, bearing fruit but once, and dying after fructification. 
Monocoryieponss (40705, alone, KOTUANSwY, a seed leaf,) one of the great 
divisions of plants, the seeds having but one lobe or coty- 
ledon. 
Monoreratous (0v05, alone, T:T@Aoy, a petal,) the same as Gamopetalous. 
MonopHuyttous (pesv0s, alone, PuAAoy, a leaf,) the same as Gamosepalous- 
Mucosvs, slimy, covered with a slimy secretion, or with a coat that is 
readily soluble in water and becomes slimy. 
MvcronateE, mucronatus, abruptly terminated by a hard sharp point. 
Mutrtiripvs, when the leaves or petals are cut into very numerous seg- 
ments. 
Mvttisusus, a pinnatifid leaf, with very numerous pairs of leaflets. 
Moricatep (muricatus), furnished with numerous short hard exerescences, 
as the fruit of the Arbutus unedo, 
N. 
NakED (nudus), without down or hairs of any kind. 
Nanus. See dwarf. 
Napirormis, turnip shaped, the figure of a depressed sphere. 
NaTans, swimming, floating under water. 
NavicuLaris, boat-shaped, having the figure of a minute boat, as the 
glumes of Phalaris canariensis. 
NECKLACE SHAPED. See moniliformis. 
NeEcranrium, small glands at the base of petals, which secrete a honey-like 
fluid, as in the Ranunculuses. 
NEEDLE-8HAPED (acerosus), linear, rigid, tapering to a fine point from a 
narrow base. 
Nervatus, ribbed, having several ribs, as the leaves of Plantago lanceolata. 
NETTED, reticulatus, cove:ed with lines, anastomosing, like the lines of a 
net. 
Niripvus, shining, having a smooth even polished surface. 
Novpineé (nutans), inclining very much from the perpendicular, so that the 
apex is directed downwards. 
NopuLosg, the fibres of roots having occasional dilatations are said to be 
nodulose, 
Normal (normalis), a plant having the ordinary structure and form of 
family or genus to which it belongs, is said to be normal, and 
abnormal when otherwise formed. 
Nucieus, a conical mass of cellular structure, invested by two coats, and 
forming the base or origin of the ovule or young seed. 
Nupvus. See naked. 
Nut, the same as Glans. 
Nutans. See nodding. 
O. 
Ox, prefixed to a word indicates inversion, as obovate, inversely ovate ; 
obcordate, inversely cordate, &c. 
