OF BOTANICAL TERMS. 



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Membranaceous : of the texture of membrane or 



thin skin. 

 Midrib : the middle rib of a leaf, 44. 

 Mineral Kingdom, 2. 

 Monadelphous, 73. 

 Monocotvledonous, Monocotyledonous Plants, 



21, 22, 97. 

 Monoecious Flowers, 68. 

 Monopetalous ; the corolla of one piece, 72. 

 Monosepalous : the calyx of one piece, 72. 

 Morphology, 34. 

 Mucronate, 49. 

 Mulberry, 82. 

 Multiple Fruits, 82. 



Naked Flowers, 68. 



Naked-seeded, 76. 



Names of Plants, 94. 



Napiform : turnip-shaped (Fig. 70), 36. 



Natural History, 2. 



Natural System, 96. 



Naturalized ; introduced from a foreign country, 



but run wild. 

 Nectariferous : honey-bearing. 

 Needle-shaped, 53. 

 Nerves, Nerved, 44, 45. 

 Netted-veined, 45. 

 Neutral Flowers, 69. 

 Notched, 49. 

 Nut, 78, 79. 

 Nutlet : a little nut or stone. 



Obcordate : inversely heart-shaped, 49. 



Oblaneeokte, 47. 



Oblique (leaves, &c ) : unequal-sided. 



Oblong, 46. 



Oblong-lanceolate, 47. 



Obovate : ovate inverted, 47. 



Obtuse : blunt, 48. 



Odd-pinnate, 52. 



OflFset, 39, 57. 



Open Pistils, 76. 



Opposite (leaves or branches), 25, 54. 



Orbicular : circular in outline, 94. 



Order, 94. 



Organs, 5 ; of Reproduction, 5, 58. 



" of Vegetation, 5. 

 Oval, 47. 

 Ovary, 8, 65. 

 Ovate, 47. 



Ovate-lanceolate, 47. 

 Ovules : rudimentary seeds, 8, 65. 



Palmate, 51. 



Palmately cleft, lobed, &c., 50, 51. 



" veined, 46. 

 Panicle, 62. 



Papilionaceous Flower or Corolla, 141. 

 Pappus: thistle-down, and the like; the limb of 



the calyx in the Sunflower Family, 165. 

 Parallel-veined, 45. 

 Parietal Placenta, 74. 

 Parted : cleft almost through, 50. 

 Parasitic Plants, 35. 

 Pedate : like a bird's foot ; palmately divided, 



with the side divisions two-parted. 

 Pedicel : the footstalk of each separate flower of 



a cluster, 60. 

 Pedicelled : raised on a pedicel. 

 Peduncle : a flower-stalk. 

 Peduncled : having a peduncle. 

 Peltate: shield-shaped, 48. 

 Pepo : a gourd-fruit, 77. 

 Perennial : living year after year. 

 Perennials, 29. 

 Perfect Flower, 67. 

 Perfoliate : where the stem appai-ently passes 



through the leaf, as in Bellwort, No. 1 and 



2, p. 211. 

 Perianth : the blossom-leaves, 64. 

 Pericarp : seed-vessel, 77. 



Persistent: not falling off ; remaining after flow- 

 ering. 

 Petal : a leaf of the corolla, 9, 64. 

 Petiole : the footstalk of a leaf, 43. 

 Petioled : having a petiole or footstalk. 

 Phajnogamous (also called Phanerogamous) 



Plants, 58, 97. 

 Pine-cone, 82. 

 Pinnate, 51. 

 Pinnately cleft, lobed, parted, &c., 50, 51. 



" veined, 46. 

 Pinnatifid : same as pinnately cleft. 

 Pistil, 8, 65. 

 Pistillate Flowers, 68. 

 Pitcher-shaped leaves, 121. 

 Pith of a stem, 42, 

 Placenta, 66, 74. 

 Plumose : plume-like ; feathered. 

 Plumule, 13, 84. 

 Pod, 79. 

 Pointed, 48. 

 Pollen, 7, 64. 

 Polyadelphous, 73. 

 Polycotyledonous, 22. 



