monoxyle (monoksil)

[ monoxylous (mo-nok' monster Mons Mænalus. [NL.: L. mons, mount; Mana lus, personages identified with the Great Bear and Boötes by the Greeks. The constellation is not now admitted. IMG:content-0908.png:[ocr errors] peæ, characterized by a solitary flower with separate petals. But one species is known, M. uniflora, of North America, Japan, and the Him a lay as, the Indian pipe, corpse-plant, or ice-plant. This plant is a root-parasite or feeds on vegetable mold; it is fleshy, white or pinkish throughout, its simple clustered stems 5 or 10 inches high, clad with small scales, the nodding flower with about ten similar sepals and petals. The pine-sap or bird's nest, often cla ed as M. Hypopitys, is now referred to a separate Flowering Plant of Indian-pipe ( Monotropa genus, Hypopitys. See bird's -nest, 1 (b), and beech -drops. uniflora). a, stamen; b, fruit. Mono trop aceæ (mon"ō-tro-pā'sē-ē), n.pl. [NL. (Lindley, 1836), as Mono tropeӕ. Mono tropeæ (mon-ō-trōpē-ē), n. pl. [NL. (Nuttall, 1818),