254 The G L O 
MONOSTACHYOUS, con- 
fiftino; of but one range or order. 
MUCRONATED, fliarp 
pointed. 
MUlTIFID, a leaf divided 
into many linear fegments or di- 
^ vifions. 
MULTIPARTITE, divided 
into many parts. 
MURICATED, full of lharp 
points like the inurex Ihell. 
. N. ' . 
•JS^JAVICULAR, rerembling 
X a fliip. 
NECT ^R, honey juice, 
NECTARIUM,//, NECTA- 
JITA, is fometimes a part of 
the corolla, and fometimes, tho’ 
rarely the whole, and it is that 
part deftined for the honey juice, 
and varies both in figure and fi- 
tuation. 
NECTARIFEROUS, bearing 
neflar. 
NUTANS, is faid when a 
flower bears a pijiil longer than 
the Jiamina, 
O. 
O BCOPvDATEjheart-fhaped 
with i\'it apex dow'nw'ards. 
OBLIQpE, when the apex 
points obliquely towards the ho- 
rizon. 
OBLONGO-OVATE, part- 
ly oblong, but rather more of an 
oval. ' 
OBLONGO - LANCEOLA- 
TED, fnaped like a lance, but 
rather obiong. 
OBTUSO-HEADED, blunt- 
ly headed. 
ORBICULAR, round or in 
the form of an orb. 
OYaLI-GLOBOSE, a glo- 
boi'e leaf paitly oval. 
S S A R Y. 
OVATO-CORDATE, lieart- 
lhaped, but foinewhat ov'al. 
OVATO - LINEAR, linear,' 
but partly oval. 
OVAtO - SUBULATED, 
awl-fhaped but fomewhat oval. 
OVATO-OBLONG, oblong 
but rather oval. 
OPERCULUM, a cover or 
lid. 
P. 
ALEACEOU3, having pa- 
hce or chaff. 
PALEA, or PALE^, chaff, a 
thin membrane rifing from a 
common receptacle which fepa- 
rates the fiofculi. 
PALMATED, fhaped like the 
open hand. 
PANICLE or PANICULA, 
a fofc woolly beard on which the 
feeds of fome plants hang. 
PANICULaTED, having a 
panicle. 
PAPPOUS, dovvnv. 
PAPILIONACEOUS, an ap- 
pellation given to fome flowers 
from their fuppofed refemblance 
to a hutterjiy, as the pea-jlonjoer 
and many of the trefoil-Jlo-ivers. 
PE DATED, when the divi- 
fions of a leaf refemble a foot it 
is pedaled. 
PEDICELLT, are partial pe- 
duncles or little foot-ftalks. 
PEDUNCLE, 'is that part of 
a rtalk w'hich immediately fuf- 
tains the leaf of a flowe.r or fruit, 
and is commonly called a foot- 
flalk. 
PEDUNCULATED, having 
peduncles. 
PELTATED, means a leaf 
the petiole of which is affixed to 
the diik and not to the bafe or 
edge of a leaf. 
PENNI- 
