GLOSSARY. 



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Multicipital, with many stems from 

 one root-crown. 



Muricate, bearing rough and rather 

 sharp excrescences. 



Muriculate, diminutive of muricate. 



Naked, destitute of covering or ap- 

 pendages; naked head, without 

 foliaceous or other bracts surround- 

 ing or concealing the involucre or 

 head; naked stem, scape or inflor- 

 escence, leafless ; naked flower, one 

 without perianth. 



Nate, termination meaning divided, as 

 2-nate, 3-nate. 



Ni rre, simple or unbranched vein, a 

 slender or secondary rib. 



AT* atral, 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 com- 

 pound ovary. 



X ut Jet. a diminutive nut, applied to 

 a fruit derived from a simple ovary, 

 or to a compound ovary which 

 splits up at maturity. 



Obcompressed, flattened on the an- 

 terior and posterior sides or fore 

 and aft, instead of laterally or side- 

 wise; obcompressed pod in Cruci- 

 ferae, flattened contrary to the par- 

 tition. 



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 parallel 

 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 lower lip of a calyx is obsolete 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 dis- 

 tinctly developed. 



Obtuse, blunt or rounded. 



Opposite leaves or branches, two from 

 each node, proceeding from opposite 



sides of the stem; "stamens op- 

 posite petals, " when the stamen ia 

 set before the petal; etc. 



Orbicular, round or roundish. 



Orthotropous ovule, a straight ovule, 

 one not inverted on its stalk. 



Ovule, the body in the ovary which 

 becomes a seed; ovulate, bearing 

 ovules. 



Palate, the lower side of the throat 

 in a bilabiate corolla. 



Palea, chaff -like pappus borne on the 

 aehenes of the Sunflower Family; 

 in the Grass Family the upper of 

 the two modified leaves subtending 

 an individual flower. 



Palmate, with the divisions or sinuses 

 of the leaf pointing to the petiole; 

 palmately compound, with the leaf- 

 lets all borne at the apex of the 

 common petiole. 



Palmatifid, cleft so as to resemble 

 the outstretched fingers of the hand. 



Paludose, palustrine, living in a marsh 

 or swamp. 



Panicle, a compound flower cluster, a 

 raceme, spike or corymb which is 

 compounded by branching. 



Papillate, bearing minute nipple- 

 shaped protuberances. 



Pappus, the modified calyx-limb borne 

 on the aehenes of the Sunflower 

 Family, usually occurring as bris- 

 tles, naked or plumose hairs, scales 

 or chaff. 



Parietal, referring to or borne on the 

 wall or sides of an organ. 



Parted, cleft to below the middle. 



Pectinate, cleft into closely set divi- 

 sions like the teeth of a comb. 



Pedate, palmately divided with the 

 lateral divisions 2-cleft, thus resem- 

 bling a bird's foot; pedately, in 

 a pedate manner. 



Pedicel, stalk or stem of a flower in 

 a flower cluster; pcdiceled, having 

 a pedicel. 



Pedicellate, having or possessing a 

 small or short pedicel. 



Peduncle, stalk or stem of a flower or 

 flower cluster; pedunculate, having 

 a peduncle. 



Peltate, round, with stalk or petiole 



