Multiple fruits. When there is a combination of several flowers into one aggregate mass, as in the pine-apple, mulberry, etc.
Muricale ; armed or covered with short spreading points or acute excrescences, like a murex.
Mutic, or muticous ; awnless or pointless; the opposite of mucronete.
Naked; destitute of the usual covering or appendage, as a stem without leaves or scales, leaves withoutpubes cence, corolla without a calyx or crown, seeds without a pericarp, a receptacle without chaff or hairs, an umbel without an in volucre, etc.
Napiform; turnip-shaped.
Natural Order. family, or An assoCation or group of kindred genera, or of plants which are nearly related in their structure, and most importaut characters. Nectariferous ; producing honey.
Nectary. That organ, or portion of a flower which secretes honey; a term formerly applied to all disguised or mod ified forms of petals and Nerved; having nerves or coarse rib-like fibres.
Nerves. Rib-like fibres (in leaves, etc.) which usually ex teod from the base to, or towards, the apex.
Nester, or neutral flower. Having neither stamen nor pistil.
Nodding ; turning downwards; somewhat drooping. Node. The knot, or solid and often tumid joint of a stem or branch.
Nodose: having numerous nodes or tumid joints.
Normal ; according to rule; agreeing with the pattern or type.
Nucifurm; not-like; resembling a nut.
Nu (less. A central body ; the seed or kernel of a nut. Nucules. Little nuts or nut-like fruit.
Nut. A hard one-celled indehisceut fruit, usually con taining a single seed.
Ob ; u preposition which inverts the usual meaning of the word to which it is prefixed.
0 zcompreesed akenes (in the composites). Flattish, with the greatest diameter from right to left, or with the flatted side to the front, orperiphery of the head.
Obronic; inversely conical: e. with the point or apex don nwards.
Obcordate ; heart-form, with the Mims at summit, and the narrowed point nt the place of insertion Oblanceolate ; inversely lanceolate, or with the widest part above the middle, and tapering gradually to the base.
.Oblique; a position between horizontal and erect; also descriptive of the base of a leaf, etc., when it is unequal or produced on one side.
Oblong; longer than wide, with the sides parallel, or nearly so.
°borate ; inversely ovate, or with the broadest end above. Obovsid; inversely ovoid.
Obsolete ; indistinct, as if worn out.
Obtuse ; blunt, or rounded.
Obversely; turned contrary to the usual position.
Ochrea. A membranous etipular sheath, emsracing the stem like a boot-leg; as in polygonum, etc. Ochroleucous ; yellowish-white or cream colored. Octandrous ; having eight stamens.
Odd-pinnate leaf, Having the leaflets in opposite pairs, with a terminal odd one; often termed impari-pinnate. Officinal; used in, or belonging tu, a shop, or medical office. _ Oleraceous ; of the nature or quality of pot-herbs. Opaque ; not transparent.
Opercular ; opening like a lid that is fixed by a hinge at one side.
Opposite; situated directly against each other, or at the same height, on contrary sides of the stem.
Orbicular; circular and flat, like a coin; the length and breadth equal and the circumference an even circular line : a term applied to leaves, or flatted bodies. (See Terete.) Order. A family or group of allied natural objects; a subdivision of a class, embracing kindred genera. Ordinal; belonging to the orders, or to an order.
Ordinal names. The names of the natural orders, or families of plants.
Orthotropous ovule or seed. Straight; not curved, or turned from its original or natural direction.
Oval; longer than broad, with the two ends of equal breadth and curvature, and the sides curving from end to end.
01 ary. The young seed-vessel, or fruit; the hollow por tion at the base of the pistil, containing the ovules, or bodies destined to become seeds.
Ovate ; flat, with the outline of a longitudinal section of an egg; a somewhat oval figure but broader near the base. Ovate-lanceolate ; lanceolate, inclining to ovate at base. Ovate-oblong; oblong, with an ovate dilatation near the base.