GLOSSARY. 



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Maritime, growing on the sea- 

 coast. 



Mealy, as if covered with a fine 

 meal. 



Membranous or membranaceous, 

 thin, soft, and more or less 

 pliable like an animal mem- 

 brane. 



Mericarp, one of the carpels or 

 acheue-like halves of a cremo- 

 carp, the fruit of the Parsley 

 Family. 



Merous, parts or members, used 

 in compounds; as 5-merous, 

 having 5 parts. 



Mesophyte, a common type of 

 plant growing under the most 

 favorable conditions of soil and 

 moisture, characterized as a 

 whole by a lack of special 

 adaptations and by a great 

 and diverse development of 

 the leaf surface; Maples, Al- 

 ders, Oaks, Thorn Apples and 

 Mustards are typical meso- 

 pbytes. 



Monadelphous, stamens united 

 into one set. 



Moniliform, like a necklace or 

 string of beads. 



Monocephalous, bearing a single 

 head; said of a stem or pedun- 

 cle, especially a naked one. 



Monoecious, with stamens and 

 pistils in separate flowers on 

 the same plant. 



Montane, of or growing in the 

 mountains. 



Mostly, used in describing char- 

 acteristics of species in the 

 sense of usually, but variable 

 as to the individual; "leaflets 

 mostly 5," i. e., mostly 5 on 

 the individual, but there may 

 be more or less. ' See Com- 

 monly. 



Mucronate, tipped with a mucro 

 or sharp but rather soft point. 



Muricate, bearing rough and 

 rather sharp excrescences. 



Muriculate, diminutive of muri- 

 cate. 



Naked heads, without foliaceous 

 or other bracts surrounding or 

 concealing the involucre or 

 head; naked stems or scapes, 

 leafless. 



Nate, termination meaning di- 

 vided, as 2-nate, 3-nate. 



Nerve, simple or unbranched 

 vein, or a slender rib. 



Neutral, said of a flower having 

 neither stamens nor pistils or 

 at least without functional 

 ones. 



Nigrescent, becoming blackened. 



Node, the place on a stem where 

 a leaf is borne. 



Nut, an indehiscent fruit with a 

 hard firm wall, resulting from 

 a compound ovary. 



Nutlet, a diminutive nut, applied 

 to a fruit derived from a simple 

 ovary or to a compound ovary 

 which splits up at maturity. 



Obeompressed, flattened on the 

 anterior and posterior sides or 

 fore and aft, instead of laterally 

 or sidewise; obeompressed pod 

 in Cruciferse, flattened con- 

 trary to the partition. 



Obcordate, inverted heart-shaped, 

 with the notch at the apex. 



Oblique, unequal sided, as in 

 leaves which are larger on 

 one side than the other. 



Oblong, two or three times longer 

 than broad and with nearly 

 paral'el sides, or somewhat 

 tapering to each end from the 

 middle. 



Obsolete, imperfectly or scarcely 

 at all developed, or abortive; 

 e. g., the lower lip of a calyx 

 is obsolete when it is obscure 

 or not very distinctly devel- 

 oped. 



