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BOTANICAL TERMS. 
Memnonius; brown-black, scarcely distin- 
guishable from piceus. 
Miniatus; vermilion-coloured, scarlet de- 
cidedly intermixed with yellow. 
Mottled; marked with blotches of colour of 
unequal intensity. 
Murium; mouse-coloured, grey with a 
tint of red. 
Nebuloms ; clouded, when colours are irre- 
gularly blended. 
Nervosus, nervatus; ribbed, having three 
or more ribs or longitudinal vein -like lines, as 
in the leaves of the rib-grass (Plantago 
lanceolata). 
Niger; black a little tinted with grey ; 
nigrescens is nearly the same. 
Niveus ; snow-white, the purest white. 
Ocellatus; when a broad spot of one colour 
has a smaller spot of a different colour within it. 
Ochraceus ; ochre-coloured, yellow slightly 
mixed with brown ; ochroleucus is the same, 
but whiter. 
Olivaceus; olive-green, green intermixed 
with brown. 
Piceus; pitch-black, black tinged with 
brown. 
Pictus ; painted, when colours are disposed 
in streaks of unequal intensity. 
Phceo- ; in composition means brown. 
Phceniceus ; a pure lively red, almost the 
same as kermesinus. 
Plumbeus; lead-coloured, differing from 
slate-grey in having a metallic lustre. 
Porphyreus ; brown mixed with red. 
Prasinus; grass-green, a clear lively un- 
mixed green colour. 
Prasinate ; of a green colour. 
Punctatus ; dotted, when colours are dis- 
posed in very small round spots. 
Puniceus; carmine, same as kermesinus. 
Purpureas; purple, dull red slightly inter- 
mixed with blue. 
Rectinervis ; straight-ribbed ; when the 
veins are parallel or nearly so, and running 
from the base to the apex, as in grasses. 
Rhodo- ; in composition means rosy. 
Rosens; rosy, a pure pale red. 
Ruber ; red : rubescens, rubellus, rubens, 
rubicundus, &c, are varieties of this, and are 
applied to different tints of any pure reds. 
Rubiginosus ; brown-red, a dull red slightly 
mixed with brown. 
Rnfus, rufescens ; rufous, redder than por- 
phyreus. 
Rutilans, rutilus; bright red, with a me- 
tallic lustre. 
Sanguineus ; blood- coloured, dull red with 
a brownish black tint. 
Schistaceus ; slate-grey, grey with a tint of 
blue. 
Spadiceus ; a pure and very clear or bright 
brown. 
Stramineus ; straw-coloured, dull yellow 
mixed with white. 
Sulphureus ; sulphur-coloured, pale lively 
yellow mixed with white. 
Tessellatus ; tessellated, when colours are 
arranged in small squares like a tessellated 
pavement. 
Testaceus; brownish yellow, like unglazed 
earthenware. 
Trinercis; three-ribbed, the whole three 
proceeding from the same base. If any dif- 
ferent number of ribs is present, it is expressed 
by the combination of the equivalent Latin 
numeral, with nervis ; thus, quiquenervis is 
five-ribbed, and so on. 
Vninervis ; one-ribbed, this is the condition 
of most leaves, having one principal rib. 
Variegatus ; variegated, when colours are 
disposed in irregular wavy spaces. 
Violaceus ; violet-coloured, blue intermixed 
with red. 
Viridu ; clear green, but less bright than 
grass green. The different tints of this colour 
are distinguished by the terms virens, virides- 
cens, viridulus, vi?*escens, &c. 
Vitellinus ; yolk-of-egg-coloured, dull yel- 
low slightly mixed with red. 
Vittatus ; striped, when longitudinal stripes 
of one colour cross those of another. 
Xantho- ; in composition means yellow. 
Xerampelinus ; dull red, with a decided ad- 
mixture of brown. 
Zonate ; having a dark belt in the shape of 
a horse- shoe. 
Zonatus ; zoned, similar to ocellate, but 
with more numerous concentric bands of co- 
lour. 
Zones ; stripes or belts of colour. 
TERMS CHIEFLY APPLIED TO ESTIVATION, 
DIRECTION, AND INSERTION. 
Accrete (accretus) ; grown together or 
united with some other body. 
Adnate (adnatus, annexus) ; adhering to 
the face of any body ; usually applied to the 
anthers. 
Adhering {adherens) ; united to another 
body laterally by the whole surface. 
Aduncous (aduncus) ; hooked, bent back, 
or crooked. 
Alternative (alternativa) ; a mode of esti- 
vation in which the parts are in two rows, 
and alternate in their position, so that the 
parts of the outer row each overlap half of two 
parts of the inner row. 
Amphitropal (ampthitropus), applied to the 
embryo of the seed, when curved round the 
other substance of the seed. 
Amplectans; embracing, clasping with the 
base. 
Amplexicaid (amplcxicaulis); stem-clasping, 
similar to amplectans, but applied only to stems. 
