GLOSSARY. 



Monosp&rmous : one-seeded. 



Monstrosity : an unnatural deviation from the usual structure or form. 



Mucronate : tipped with a abrupt short point {macro). 



Mucrdnulate : tipped with a minute abrupt point ; a diminutive of the last. 



Multi^, in composition : many ; as 



Multangular : many-angled. Multicipital : many-headed, &c. 



Multifarious : in many rows or ranks. Multifid : many-cleft. 



Multildcular : many-celled. Multisirial : in many rows. 



Muricate : beset with short and hard points. 



Miiri/orm : wall-like ; resembling courses of bricks in a wall 



Muticous : pointless ; beardless ; unarmed. 



Napiform : turnip-shaped. 



Naturalized : introduced from a foreign country, but growing perfectly wild 

 and propagating freely by seed. 



Navicular : boat-shaped, like the glumes of most Grasses. 



Necklace-shaped : looking like a string of beads ; see moniliform. 



Nectar : the honey, &c. , secreted by glands, or by any part of the corolla. 



Nectariferous : honey-bearing ; or having a nectary. 



Nectary : old name for petals and other parts of the flower when of unusual 

 shape, especially when honey-bearing. So the hollow spur-shaped petals 

 of Columbine were called nectaries ; also the curious long-clawed petals 

 of Monkshood. 



Needle-shaped : long, slender, and rigid, like the leaves of Pines. 



Nerve : a name for the ribs or veins of leaves, when simple and parallel. 



Nerved : furnished with nerves, or simple and parallel ribs or veins. 



Netted-veined : furnished with branching veins forming network. 



Nodding (in Latin form, mutant) : bending so that the summit hangs down- 

 ward. 



Node : a knot ; the "joints " of a stem, or the part whence a leaf or a pair 

 of leaves springs. 



Nddose : knotty or knobby. Nddulose : furnished with little knobs or knots. 



Normal : according to rule ; the pattern or natural way according to some 

 law. 



Nut : a hard, mostly one-seeded, indehiscent fruit ; as a chestnut, butternut, 

 acorn. 



Nutlet : a little nut ; or the stone of a drupe. 



Ob- (meaning over against) : when prefixed to -words, signifies inversion ; as, 



Obcompressed : flattened the opposite of the usual way. 



Obc&rdate : heart-shaped with the broad and notched end at the apex instead 



of the base. 

 Obldnceolate : lance-shaped with the tapering point downwards. 

 Oblique : applied to leaves, &c, means unequal-sided. 

 Oblong : from two to four times as long as broad, and more or less elliptical 



in outline. 

 Obdvate : inversely ovate, the broad end upward. 

 Obtuse : blunt or round at the end. 

 Obverse : same as inverse. 



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