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NUMMULARIA, Money-wort, the name by which fome call the Lyflmachia of botanifts. Sec the article Lysimachia,

Suppl. NUT( Suppl. )—Bladder-NvT, the Enghlh name of a diftinft

genus of plants, called by botanifts Stapbylaur, and Stapby-

lodendron. See the article St aphylodendRon, Suppl. Ckm-Nut, the name of a genus of plants, called by botanifts

Cacao. See the article Cacao, Suppl. Eartb-Nur, in botany, a name given to two diftincT: genufes

of plants, called by botanifts Bulbocajlanum and Aracbis. See

the articles Bulbocastanum, Suppl. and Arachis,

Append. Hazle-Nvr, in botany. See the article Hazle, Suppl. JWalabar-NvT, the name of a genus of plants, known among

botanifts by that of Adbatoda. See the article Adhatoda,

Suppl. Peas-Nvr, the name by which fome call the Latbyrus of bo- tanical writers. See the article Lathyrus, Suppl. Pbyftc Nut, a name fometimes given to the Ricinoides of

Tournefort. See the article Ricinoides, Suppl. Pj^-Nut, a name by which the Bulbocajlanum, or eartlwra/,

is fometimes called. See the article Bulbocastanvm,

Suppl.

SpaniJh-tivT, a name by which fome call the Slfyrlncbium of botanical writers. See the article Sisyrinchium, Suppl.

fPall-NuT, the name of a well known genus of trees called by Linnseus Juglans, and by Tournefort limply Nux. See the article Nux. Suppl.

NYCTANTHES, in the Linnean fyftem of botany, the name of a genus of plants, the characters of which are thefe ; the cup is a one-leaved perianthium, very fmall, of a cylindric figure, lightly divided into eight fegments, or denticula;, of a fubulated figure, and permanent. The flower confifts of a fingle petal, and is of a hypocrateriform kind; the tube is cy- lindric, and longer than the cup ; the limb is plain, divided into eight fegments of an oblong figure, and patent ; the ft'a- mina are two extremely fmall filaments, affixed to the recep- tacle, and of a fubulated figure j the' antherae are erect, and fomewhat acute ; tile germen of the piflil is rour.difh and de- prefTed; the ftyle is fimple, and of the length of the tube i the ffigmata are two, and are ereQ: ; the fruit is a didymous berry, of a roundifh figure, and contains two cells ; the feeds are roundifh and large, and one only is contained in each cell. Linnai Gen, Plant, p. 6.

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