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Monoecious; with male and female
flowers on the same plant, but
not in the same receptacle.
Mucro; an abrupt sbort point continuous
witb tbe costa.
Mucronate ; tipped with a mucro.
Mucronulate ; with a very small
mucro.
Multifld; many-parted, or many
times divided for a portion of the
length.
Muricate; having the surface
rough with short hard points.
Muticous; pointless, blunt.
Neck; see Collum.
Nerve; see Midrib.
Nodose, Nodulose; knotty.
Obconical; conical inversed. Ob
prefixed to words usually signifies
inversion.
Obovate; inverted ovate, the narrow
end at the base.
Obsolete ; scarcely apparent.
Operculum; see Lid.
Ovate; shaped like an egg.
Panduriform; fiddle-shaped.
Papillate, Papillose; covered with
small nipple-shaped protuberances
{papillæ).
Paraphyllia; small 'thin leaves or
bair-like appendages attached to
the stem.
Paraphysate ; liaving paraphyses.
Paraphyses; minute jointed filaments,
accompanying the archegonia
and antheridia.
Parenchymatous ; composed of
broad cells applied end to end.
Paroecious; witli male and female
flowers placed close together.
Patent; spreading open.
Pectinate; divided or branclied
like a comb.
Pedicel; the stalk of the capsule.
Pedicellate; furnished with a pedicel.
Pendulous; somewhat banging or
drooping, more so than cernuous.
Percurrent (costa); extending
through the entire length of the
leaf.
Perforate; pierced with holes.
Perichætium; the involucre of the
female flower; the cluster of
leaves at the base of the pedicel or
of the capsule, when sessile, and
surrounding the vaginule.
Perigonium; involucral leaves or
scales of the male flower.
Peristome; fiinge of teeth, etc., at
the orifice of the capsule.
Persistent; not easily or soon falling
away.
Plane; flat.
Pleurocarpi; mosses having axil-
laiy flowers, and the fruit lateral
upon the stems or branches.
Plicate; folded lengthwise.
Polygamous; with barren and fertile
flowers variously disposed ou
the same plant.
Polyphyllous; many-leaved.
Primordial; earliest formed.
Processes; principal divisions of
the inner peristome; segments.
Procumbent; trailing on the ground.
Proliferous; bearing young shoots
from tbe liead or cluster of
flowers.
Prosenchymatous ; composed of
narrow cells whose ends overlap
each other.
Prothallium; confervoid filaments
arising from the germination of
the spore, or in some mosses preceding
the foriualion of buds by
rootlets.
Pseudopodium; the false pedicel
or elongation of tbe vaginule supporting
the capsule of Sphagnum;
also applied to the granules of
Aulacomnium.
Pulvinate; cushioned or shaped
like a pillow.
Punctate, Punchilate ; marked
with small opaque dots.
Punctiform; dot-like.
Pyriform; pear-shaped.
Quadrate; square.
Radicles; small rooting filaments;
ends of the roots or rootlets.
Radiculose ; covered with radicles.
Ramose; branching.
Ramulose; bearing branchlets.
Receptacle; the axis or support of
a flower.
Reflexed ; abruptly bent back.
Repand; wavy-inargined.
Reticulate; with veins forming a
net-work; mesh-like.
Retuse; with the apex not only obtuse
but somewhat indented.
Rhizoma; creeping subterranean
stem.
Rostellate; having a short beak.
Rostrate; with a beak.
Rosulate (leaves) ; in a cluster regularly
arranged like a rosette.
Rugose; wrinkled.
Scabrous; rough.
Scarious, or Scariose; thin, dry,
and membranous.
Secund; one-sided; turned to one
side.
Segments; divisions or teeth of the
inner peristome.
Semiterete; half-cylindrical.
Se.rrate; having teeth pointing upward.
Serrulate; same as the last, but
with small teeth.
Seta; a bristle; name sometimes
applied to the pedicel.
Setaceous; bristle-like.
Sheath, Sheathing; tbe base of a
leaf wrapped around the stein
like a sheath.
Spatulate; shaped like a spatula,
narrowly and obtusely obovate
and attenuate downward.
Spennatozoids; active organized
bodies in the antheridia, analogous
to the pollen of flowering
plants.
Spinulose; thorny ; beset witb
small spines.
Sporangium; tbe spore-case lining
tbe cavity of the capsule; often
applied to the whole capsule.
Spores; the small rouinl bodies contained
in the capsule, taking the
place of seeds.
Squamiform; shaped like a scale.
Squarrose; spreading open widely
and abruptly from the axis.
Squarrulose; slightly squarrose.
Stegocarpous; having the capsule
operculate.
Sllpitate; having a stipe or footstalk.
Stipules; appendages at the base of
the leaves.
Stoma, (plural) Stomata; breathing
pores, especially seen upon
the capsules.
Stom.atose; bearing stomata.
Striate; marked with fine parallel
lines or furrows.
Striolate; diminutive of striate,
having very flue striæ.
Strumose; with a struma or goitrelike
unsymmetrical swelling at
the base of the capstile.
Sub-; a prefix signifying in a slight
degree or stimewhat.
Subulate; awl-shaped.
Sulcate; longitudinally grooved.
Surculus; a leafy upright shoot
from the rhizoma.
Synoecious; having antheridia and
archegonia in tlie same receptacle.
Terete; cylindrical, sometimes tapering.
Tessellate; checkered in little
squares.
Thallu9; confervoid filaments in the
early stage of the growth of a
moss. See Prothallium.
Tomentose; covered with down or
soft malted hairs.
Torulose; knobby, where a cylindrical
body is swollen at intervals.
Trabeculate (teeth); with horizontal
prominent crossbars on tbe
inner face.
Truncate; ending abruptly, as
thongh cut transVersely.
Tubercle; a small excrescence.
'Tubulose; tubular.
Tumid; swollen.
'Tumescent; slightly swollen.
Turbinate; shaped like a top.
Tympaniform ; drinn-like, applied
to a membrane stretched over the
orifice of the capsule.
Umhonate; bossed; with a central
projection like the boss of a
shield.
Uncinate; hook-shaped.
Unequal ; not symmetrical.
Unilateral; one-sided.
Urceolate; contracted at the orifice;
shaped like a pitcher.
Utricles; the large colored hyaline
cells of the leaves of Sphagnum.
'Vaginale; sheathed ; surrounded
by a sheath (vagina).
Vaginule; the cellular sheath surrounding
the base of the pedicel,
oi'lginaliy tbe lower part of the
archegonium.
Vaguely ; without definite order
or direction.
Vermicular; worm-shaped; thick-
cylindric and curved.
Verrucose, Verruculose; beset with
small projections like warts.
Verticil; a whorl.
Verticillate; whorled.
Vesiculose, or Vesicular ; bladdery;
formed of vesicles or small air-
cavities.