GLOSSARY OF BOTANICAL TERMS V& 



individual, . 



MtJCKONATE, tipped with a very short hard, usually blunt point. 

 If the point is longer or acute it becomes cuspidate or awned. 



Muricate, covered with scattered short firm thick or conical 



Muticous, without appendages. 



•natk, us! (1 iii composition, arising from the same point or whorled, 



Nervation, the arrangement of the fibro-vascular bundles in the 

 leaves. The method of describing the nervation differs somewhat in 

 the Flowering Plants and Ferns. 



F. Fbnmni'/ I'h'nt*. The nerves or ribs which spriim <ln« • tl\ 

 from the petiole (or stem in sessile leaves) an - \ < < , < ■ 



-".■(.Till [iniiiarv nerves spreading from the base the hat i- r <ilw>- 

 nerved or palmately nerved ; 3-nerved, 5-nerved, etc., refer to the 

 number of primary nerves. If all the primary nerves are parallel 

 or nearly so the 'leaf is pamUd-iierred. The larger nerves which 



and those that arise from these the tertiary nerves, which may. as well 

 as the nervation of a higher order, be also called the nervules. If the 



nervation is r>ti'rn!utr, but this expression is sometimes also used 

 merely as the antithesis of parallel-nerved. 

 II. Ftm*. The continuation of the stipes or stalk of the frond 



or simple frond. The branches from the primary rhachis in a bi- 



W*'*, and the I, ,.,•!< h. - ft mi thesi i_r i n tin I 



eostae of a simple frond or the costule of a segment are the >-fln.-, and 

 those of a higher order the venules or veinlets. 



Node, the plane of insertion of a leaf on the axis. 



Vir. , hud. <!,.. 1 m,,1. I , o hi. ent fruit. 



N 1LFT tie hy 1-seeded lobes of some fruit*, each ot win. h 

 becomes detached like a separate fruit, e. g. in Labiatm and Boragem. 



, nhnratf. leaf is inversely ovi 



, «' Ik" other 8 

 Oblong, longer than broad a 

 Obsolete, not developed. 



