MONOGRAPH

Hie first letter of the monogram as the key to its explanation. A monogram is said to be perfect when it contains all the letters of the word it is intended to represent. ( Diet, de la Conversation, Sfc.) MONOGRAPH (Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) A treatise or memoir on a single subject of a limited deBcription. Such, for example, are the greater part of the memoirs which are read before learned societies. MONOGYNIA. {Gr. fMvo;,Sin , a female.) In Botany, the name given by Linnaeus in his system to the first order or subdivision in each of the first thirteen cla es of plants, comprising such as have one pistil or stigma only in a flower. [s. 780]