GLOSSARY. 
Mericarps ; the cai-pels of Umbelliferae. 
Midrib; the lar^e vein extending along the middle of a leaf 
from its petiole nearly or quite to the other end. 
Moniliform ; cylindrical but constricted at regular intervals. 
Monocotyleclonous ; having one sheathing cotyledon. 
Monoecimis; with the sexes in separate flowers on the same 
plant. 
Motiosepalous ; tnonopetalous ; when the sepals or petals are 
joined by their edges so as apparently to form one. 
MtiC}-onate ; abiiiptly tipped with a short point of the same 
texture. 
Multijid ; divided into many parts. 
Muricate ; covered wdth short sharp points. 
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 
glam, a hard dry 1- or few-seeded inferior pericarp not 
bursting and seated in a cuplike involucre, e. g. acorn. 
Ob; in conjunction with tenns means iirverted; as obovate is 
ovate with the attachment at the narrow end. 
ObJotiff ; long oval, equally broad at each end. 
Ocf-ea ; a tubular membranous stipule surrounding the stem. 
Opaque ; not shining. 
Opposite; when two similar organs grow one on each side of 
some body ; or different 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 ; e^gshaped ; a sliort flat figui'e rather broader below the 
middle of its length. 
Ovoid; a solid eggshaped 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, inclosing the 
stamens, pistils, and hvpogynous scales. 
Palmate ; spreading like the fingers of a hand from the same 
point. 
Panicle ; a raceme with branching pedicels ; hence paniculate. 
Papilionaceous ; like the flower of a Pea. 
Papillose ; with small long protuberances. 
