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Monandria. One stamen. 
Moniliform. Like a string of beads. 
Monocotyledones. Embryo with one cotyledon. 
Monecia. Stamens and pistils in separate flowers on the 
same plant. 
Monogamia. A syngenetic flower not belonging to a head. 
Monogynia. Having one pistil. : 
Mucro. Ashort and small abrupt tip. 
Mucronate. Having a mucro. 
Mucronulate. Diminutive of mucronate. 
Muitifid. Oleft into many lobes and segments. 
Muricate. Rough, with short hard points. 
Navicular. Boat-shaped. 
Nectaria, Nectary. Organs which produce a sweet secre- 
tion within a flower. 
Necessaria. Florets of the disk male; of the ray female; 
or hermaphrodite. 
Nervose. Having veins or ribs. 
Neutral. Neither male nor female. 
Obcompressed. Flattened dorsally. 
Obconic. Like an inverted cone. 
Obcordate. Inverted cordate. 
Obovate. Inverted ovate. 
Obtuse. Blunt. 
Ochroleucous. Yellowish white. 
Octandria. Hight stamens. 
Orthosperme. Having the endosperm straight (flat). 
Osseous. Bony. 
Ovoid. Egg-shaped. 
Palea, Palet. Chaff, or a chaffy bract; in grasses the two 
inner bracts of the flower. 
Palmate. Compound, with the leaflets radiating. 
Panicle. A compound raceme. 
Papilionaceous. Butterfly-like. The peculiar corolla of 
the Leguminosz. 
Papillate. Beset with minute thick projections. 
