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VOCABULARY. 
Li'ber. The inner bark of plants. 
Lig'neous. Woody. 
Lig'nurn. Wood. 
Lig'ulate. Strap or riband-like, fiat, as 
the florets of the dandelion. 
Lilia'ceous. A corolla with 6 petals 
gradually spreading from the base. 
Limb. The border or spreading part 
of a monopetalous corolla. 
Lin'ear. Long and narrow, with par- 
allelsides, as the leaves of grasses. 
Lip. The under petal in a labiate co¬ 
rolla. 
Littori'bus. Growing on coasts, or 
shores. 
Li'vidous. Dark purple. 
Lobe. A large division, or distinct 
portion of a leaf or petal. 
Loc’ulus. (From locus , a place.) A 
little space. 
Lo'ment. A pod resembling a legume, 
but divided by transverse partitions. 
Longifo'lius. Long-leaved. 
Longis'shmis. Very long. 
Lilcidus. Bright and shining. 
Lunate or Lunulate. Shaped like a half 
moon. 
L/a'rid. Of a pale dull colour. 
Lu'teus. Yellow. 
Ly'rate. Pinnatifid, with a large 
roundish leafet at the end. 
M 
Macula'tus. Spotted. 
Mares'cent. Withering 
Mar'gin. The edge or border. ' 
Mar'itime. Growing near the sea. 
Medulla. The pith or pulp of vegeta¬ 
bles. The centre or heart of a ve¬ 
getable. 
Melliferous. (From met , honey.) Pro¬ 
ducing or containing honey. 
Mem'branous or Membrana’ceous. Very 
thin and delicate. 
Mes'ocarp. The middle substance of 
the pericarp, having the epicarp on 
the outer, and the endocarp on the in¬ 
ner side. 
Mes'osperm. That part of the seed 
which corresponds to the mesocarp 
of the pericarp. 
Midrib. The main or middle rib of a 
' leaf, running from the stem to the 
apex. 
Minia'tus. Scarlet vermilion colour. 
Mola'res. Back teeth, grinders. 
Mollis. Soft. 
Mollus'cous. Such animals as have a 
soft body without bones ; as the oys¬ 
ter. 
Monadel'phous. Having the stamens 
united in a tube at the base. 
Monil'liform. Granulate, strung to¬ 
gether like beads. 
Monoceph'alous. (Fro mmono, one, and 
kephale , head.) The term is applied 
to pericarps, ’which have but one sum¬ 
mit, as the wheat, while the geum and 
anemone have as many as they 
have styles; they are polycephalous. 
Monocolyled' onous. Having but one 
cotyledon. 
Monos' cious. Having pistillate and 
staminate flowers on the same plant. 
Monopelalous. The corolla all in one 
piece. 
MonophyVlous. Consisting of one leaf. 
Monosep'alous. A calyx of one leaf or 
sepal. 
Monosper'mus. One seed to a flower. 
Monto/nus. Growing on mountains. 
Moon-form. See Crescent-form. 
Mosses. The second order of the class 
Cryptogamia. 
Mucronate. Having a small point or 
prickle at the end of an obtuse leaf. 
Mult iflo'rus. M an y-fl o w e r e d. 
Multiplex. Many-fold, petals lying 
over each other in two rows. 
Mul'tus. Many. 
Mu'ricate. Covered with prickles. 
N 
Na'lced. Destitute of parts usually 
found. 
Na'nus. Dwarfish, very small. 
Nap. Downy, or like fur, tomentose. 
Napifor'mis. Resembling a turnip. 
Narcot'ic. (From narco , to stupify.) A 
substance which has the powder of 
procuring sleep, as Opium. 
Ncl taut. Floating. 
Natural character. That which is ap¬ 
parent, having no ? reference to any 
particular method of classification. 
Natural history. The science which 
treats of nature. 
Nec'tary. (From nectar . the fabled 
drink of the gods.) The part of a 
flower which produces honey; this 
term is applied to any appendage of 
the flower which has no other name. 
Nemoro'sus. Growing in groves, often 
given as a specific name, as Anemone 
nemorosa; the ending in a denotes 
the adjective as being in the feminine 
gender ; the adjective in Latin vary¬ 
ing its termination to conform to the 
gender of the substantive. 
Nerves. Parallel veins. 
Nerved. Marked with nerves, so call¬ 
ed, though not organs of sensibility 
like the nerves in the animal system. 
Nic'lllans. (From a word which sig¬ 
nifies to twinkle or wink.) Applied 
as a specific name to some plants 
which appear sensitive; as the Cassia 
nictitans. 
