GLossaryY or TECHNICAL TERMS. 97 
GLossaRy—continued. 
MILLIMETERE, 3 of an inch. 
Morsip, unnatural. 
MuciLacE, « gummy product or exudation from plants. 
Mucous Mrmsrang, the lining of the digestive canal. 
Narcorio, producing sleep, insensibility, or death. 
Nevritis, inflammation of the nerves. : 
NEvRITIS (PERIPHERAL), inflammation of the nerve-endings. 
NITRATE, a compound of nitric acid with a base. 
Nirrirication, the process by which nitrogenous organic matter is converted into 
nitrates by micro-organisms if lime or a similar base is present. 
Nitrogen, the chief constituent of the atmosphere, and one of the most important. 
elements of plant and animal food. 
Noruxts, the little nut-like or seed-like fruits into which the fruit of a sage or dead- 
nettle splits. 
Oxscorpats, heart shaped, with the point to the stalk. 
OsLiQuE, neither horizontal nor perpendicular. 
Ostone, longer than broad, with nearly parallel sides. 
OxovatE, oval, but broader at the outer end. 
OBovaTE-OBLONG, intermediate between the two preceding shapes. 
Otractory, having the sense of smell. 
OrBIcULaR, flat, with a circular outline. 
Ovary, the part in which the seeds develop. 
Ovary (INFERIOR), when the ovary is sunk in the flower stalk below the insertion 
of sepals, petals, and stamens. 
Ovary (SupmRior), the base not below the insertion of the other parts of the flower. 
Ovartn, egg-shaped with the broader end basal. 
Ovorp, egg-shaped. 
_PatmaTE, shaped like the hand. 
Panicue#, a loose flower cluster. 
Pappus, the tuft of hairs on the seed-like fruits of Composites, &c., or on the seeds. 
of other plants. 
PaRasITIc, growing on, and at the expense of, another plant or animal. 
Partirs, divided into pieces or segments. 
Pervicet, the stalk of a flower. 
PERENNIAL, a plant living for several years. 
Prrtanrs, the leaf-like parts enclosing the stamens and carpels in a flower. 
PERIPHERAL-NEURITIS, inflammation of the nerve endings. 
Prratorp, petal-like. 
Prats, the coloured leaf-like parts of a flower, lying between the sepals and stamens. 
Petro.z, the stalk of a leaf. 
PHYLLODE, a flattened leaf-like petiole (Acacia, &c.). . 
Prats, segmented in « feather-like manner, with the leaflets on each side of the 
common stalk. 
Pinnatirip, partially cleft or split in pinnate fashion. 
Potassium, 8 metallic element essential as a food material for all plants and animals. 
Porasstum Nrrratn, the salt formed when nitric acid unites with potassium. 
PREDILECTION, preference. 
PrRICKLE, a stiff pointed appendage, not containing woody tissue. 
ProcnaiMmeD Puant, a plant notified by the Governor in Council in the Government 
Gazette as included under the provisions of the Thistle Act. 
Prosrrate, lying flat. _ 
Prorerps, nitrogenous materials like white of egg, &c., forming the bulk of the living 
substance, protoplasm. 
ProMAINE, a poisonous product of bacterial decomposition. 
PouneeEnt, pointed. 
Racemg, a flowering stem with the youngest flowers at the top. 
Ravirot, arising apparently from the root at the base of the stem near the ground. 
Ray Frorets, the outer petal-like florets of a Composite head. 
Recrpracre, the top of the flower stem from which the parts of the flower arise. 
REFLEXED, bent back. 
Ruizomss, more or less elongated underground stems, usually at the base of the 
stem. 
Ricryin, the poisonous principle of the Castor Oil seed. 
