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LopicuLn. A name applied to the minute hyaline scales just outside the stamens in 
the flowers of grasses. 
Lorate. Strap-shaped ; thong-shaped. 
Lucitp. Having a shining surface. 
Lunats. Half-moon shaped. 
Lurip. Of a dingy brown or yellow. 
Lutescent. Yellowish. 
LyratEe. Lyre-shaped; pinnatifid with the terminal lobe large and rounded, the 
lower lobes small. 
MACROSPORANGIUM. A sporangium containing macrospores. 
Macrosporg. The larger kind of spore in vascular cryptogams. 
MAcULATE. Spotted or blotched. 
Maur. A plant or flower which possesses stamens. 
Mammitta, <A nipple or teat-shaped projection. 
MAMMILLATE. Having nipple-shaped projections. 
Marcrscent. Withering and persistent. 
MARGINAL. Placed upon or belonging to the edge or margin. 
MARGINATE, MARGINED. Furnished with an edge or border of a different character 
to the rest of the organ. 
Maritime. Belonging to the sea or the neighbourhood of the sea. 
MassuLa. A group of microspores contained in a special envelope, as in Azolla. 
MEMBRANOUS, MEMBRANACEOUS. Thin, soft, and translucent, like a membrane. 
MerrIcaRP. A name applied to one of the two carpels composing the fruit of Umbelliferae. 
Mesocarp. The middle layer of a fruit or pericarp. 
MicropyLe. The opening or mark in the integument of a seed indicating the position 
of the foramen of the ovule. 
MicrosporE. The smaller kind of spore in vascular cryptogams. 
Mipris. ‘The central and principal nerve of a leaf. 
MonapDELPHous. Having the stamens all united by their filaments into a column or 
tube. 
Monanprovs. Having a single stamen. 
MoniuirorM. Resembling a necklace or string of beads ; constricted at regular intervals. 
MonocHLAMYDEOvS. Applied to those plants whose flowers have only a single perianth. 
MonocotyLepons. ‘Those plants whose embryo has but one cotyledon or seed-lobe. 
Monorctous. Having the stamens and pistils in separate flowers, but borne on the 
same plant. 
MonoperaLous. (Gamopetalous ; having all the petals united by their edges. 
MonopHytyious. (1.) One-leaved, as an involucre composed of a single piece. (2.) Equi- 
valent to “‘ gamosepalous ”’ or “‘ gamopetalous.”’ 
Monorypic. Applied to a genus with but one species. 
Mucitaernous. Composed of mucilage ; slimy. 
Mucro. A sharp terminal point. 
Mucronate. Possessing a short and sharp terminal point. 
MuvcronvuLATE. Ending in a diminutive mucro. 
MULTIFARIOUS. Arranged in many vertical rows or ranks. 
Muttirip. Cleft into many lobes or segments. 
Moricatg, Mouricatep. Rough with short hard points. 
MovricuLatge. Diminutive of * muricate ”’ ; minutely muricate. 
Moricous. Blunt; without a point. 
Nakep. Bare; without its usual covering or appendages, as a stem without leaves, 
a flower without perianth. 
NaAvicunaRr. Boat-shaped. 
Nectar. The sweet secretion within a flower; honey. 
NECTARIFEROUS. Honey-bearing. 
* Nerve, A simple or unbranched vein or slender rib. 
NERVED. Having nerves or slender ribs. 
Netrep. Reticulated; net veined. 
Nops. That part of a stem or branch from which leaves or branches are given off ; 
the knots in the stems of grasses. 
Nopose. Knotty or knobby; usually applied to roots. 
Nout. A hard indehiscent one-celled fruit. 
Nutter. A small nut; sometimes applied to the hard seed-like divisions of the fruit 
of Libiatae. 
