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NUC AMEN TAG EiE \_Nucamcntum, a cat's 

 tail, or long excrefcence hanging down from 

 the pine, fir, iscj] An order of plants in the 

 Fragmenta tnethodi naturalis of Linnseus, con^ 

 raining the following genera, viz. Xanthium, 

 ■ Jmbrofia, Parthenium, Iva^ Micropus, Arteni'ijta. 



NUCAMENTUM. See Amentum. 



NUGLEUS, a kernel. 



NUDUS CauUs : naked. Linnssus, in his 

 Philofophia Botanica, explains this word hj foliis 

 dejlitutm ; but as, in his Delineatio Planta, he 

 makes it a diftincl term from Jphyllus, he miift 

 intend that it fhould imply entire nakednefs, 

 in oppofition not to foliatus only, but alfo to 

 feaher, villofus, &c. When applied to leaves, 

 it is evidently taken in this fenfe. 



Nudus Vertlcillus, having no Involucrum, op- 

 pofed to involucratus. 



Niidujn Caphulum, liaving no leaves, oppofbd 

 to foUofum, 



NUTANS Caulis, nodding ; the third, and 

 greateft degree of curvature towards the earth. 

 Sec declinatus, incurvatus. 



Nutans Jlos, when the pedunculus is confider- 

 ably curved. 



a Nux, 



