GLOSSARY. 
Monocotyledonous ; having one sheathing cotyledon. 
Moncecious ; with the sexes in separate flowers on the same 
plant. 
MoTiosepalous ; monopetalous ; when the sepals or petals are 
joined by their edges so as apparently to form one. 
Mucronate ; abruptly tipped with a short point of the same 
texture, 
Mvltifid ; divided into many parts. 
Muricate ; covered with short sharp points. 
Mono-, di-, dtc. androus ; with 1, 2, &c. stamens. 
Mono-, di-, &c. gynous ; with 1, 2, &c. free styles or stigmas. 
Naturalized ; introduced but propagating itself freely by seed. 
Nectary ; an organ which secretes honey. 
Netted ; covered with lines connected together like network. 
Node ; a point in a stem where a leaf is produced ; a joining. 
Nut; a hard dry 1-seeded superior pericarp; also used for a 
glans, a hard dry 1- or few-seeded inferior pericarp not 
bursting and seated in a cup-like involucre, e.g. acorn. 
Oh ; in conjunction with terms means inverted ; as ohovate is 
ovate with the attachment at the narrow end. 
Oblong ; long oval, equally broad at each end. 
Ocrea ; a tubular membranous stipule surrounding the stem. 
Opaqtie. ; not shining. 
Opposite ; when two similar organs grow one on each side of 
some body ; or dififerent organs are opposed to each other 
with a stem between them. 
Orbicular ; nearly round and flat. 
Oval ; an ellipse ; a figure rounded at each end, not broader 
at one end than at the other ; and about twice as long as 
broad. 
Ovary ; the young seed-vessel. 
Ovate ; egg-shaped ; a short flat figure (thin like a leaf) rather 
broader below the middle of its length. 
Ovoid ; a solid egg-shaped figure. 
Ovule ; the young seed. 
Palate ; the prominent part of the base of the lower lip which 
closes the mouth of a ringent corolla. 
Pales ; the leaflike parts of the flower of Grasses, enclosing 
the stamens, pistils, and hypogynous scales. 
Palmate ; with lobes spreading like the fingers of a hand from 
the same point. 
Panicle a race:iie with branching pedicels ; hence pam'cM^a^e. 
Papilionaceous ; like the flower of a Pea. 
