Legumin 



Leucm 



seed-vessel of Leguminosae, one- 

 celled and two-valved, but various 

 in form ; Legu'min, an albuminoid 

 from pulse, vegetable casein ; 

 legu'minous, legumina'ris, (1) per- 

 taining to a legume ; or (2) to the 

 order Leguminosae. 



lem'on-col'oured, pale, pure yellow, 

 citrinus. 



lens-shaped, lentil-like, doubly-con- 

 vex, lenticular. 



Len'ticel, Lenticel'la (lens, lends, a 

 lentil), lenticular corky spots on 

 young bark, corresponding to epi- 

 dermal stomata ; syn. Lent'icelle 

 (Crozier); lenticella'tus (Mod. Lat. ), 

 having lenticels ; Lentic'ulae, "the 

 spore-cases of certain Fungals " 

 (Lindley) ; lentic'ular, lenticula'ris, 

 lentiform'is (forma, shape), like a 

 doubly convex lens. 



lentig'inose, lentig'inous, hntigino'sus 

 (Lat., full of freckles), minutely 

 dotted as though freckled. 



leoch'romus (\fuv, a lion, xpOi/jia., 

 colour), tawny, the colour of a lion's 

 hide ; leoni'nus (Lat., pertaining to 

 a lion), something of the same tint. 



Lep'al, Lep'alum (Mod. Latin, from 

 Xeiris, a scale), a nectary originat- 

 ing in a barren transformed stamen 

 (Henslow). 



Lepan'thium (\eirls, a scale, &v6os, a 

 flower), " a petal which contains a 

 nectary" (Crozier); Lepic'ena^ei/os, 

 empty), the glume in grasses, by 

 Richard used for the lower pair 

 of glumes ; Lep'ides, scales, usually 

 attached by their centre ; lepido- 

 den'droid (Le/ridodendron, ddos, re- 

 semblance), like the fossil genus 

 Lepidodendron, a carboniferous 

 Lycopod. 



Lepidopteroph'ilae (Lepidopteron, 

 0iXew, I love), applied to plants 

 which are fertilized by lepidop- 

 terous insects. 



Lep'idophyte, Lepidophy'tae (\e-rrls, a 

 scale ; tpvrov, a plant), L. Ward's 

 term for Lepidodendroid fossil 

 plants. 



lep'idote, le.pido'tus (XeTriowros, scaly), 

 beset with small scurfy scales. 



Lepio'ta (\eiris, a scale, o5s, tiros, an 

 ear), " the annulus of certain Fun- 

 gals " (Lindley) ; but Lepiota is a 

 genus of Agarics, having been pro- 

 posed by Persoon for a section of 

 Agaricus ; Le'pis, a scale. 



Lepis'ma (XeTrio-^ct, peeled bark), a 

 membranous scale in some Ranun- 

 culaceae, an apparently aborted 

 stamen in Paeonia papaveracea, 

 Andrz. ; several of them enclose 

 the ovary. 



Lep'ra (Xt-rrpa, leprosy), a white mealy 

 matter extruded from the surface 

 of some plants ; lep'rose, lep'rous, 

 lepro'sus, scurfy. 



leptoder'mous (Xen-ros, thin, delicate, 

 dtp/Ad, skin), thin-coated, used of 

 moss-capsules when pliable ; Lep'to- 

 forms ( forma, shape), heteroecious 

 Fungi having teleutospores only, 

 which as soon as they arrive at 

 maturitygerminate onliving plants; 

 Lep'tome, an abbreviation of Lep- 

 tomes'tome (/tecrros, filled) ; Haber- 

 landt's expression for the phloem- 

 like portion of the vascular bundles 

 in vascular plants ; Lep'tomin, a 

 substance found in the leptome of 

 some plants, especially in the 

 sieve-tubes and laticiferous vessels, 

 the presumed function being to 

 convey oxygen (Raciborski); Lep'- 

 tophlo'em ( + PHLOEM), rudimen- 

 tary phloem, for storage or con- 

 duction of food material (Vaisey) ; 

 leptophyl'lous,-/(w (<j>v\\ov, a leaf), 

 slender - leaved ; leptosporan'giate 

 (a-jropa, seed, ayyeiov, a small vessel), 

 having leptosporangia ; Leptospor- 

 an'gium, a sporangium derived 

 from one superficial cell, as in the 

 true Ferns, and not from a group 

 of cells as in Ophioglossaceae ; 

 leptoti'chus (T^XO?, a wall), thin- 

 walled, applied only to tissue. 



Lepyrophyl'ly (\tirvpov, a scale, <p6X\ov, 

 a leaf), Morren's term for arrest of 

 the testa in the leaf-stage. 



lett'ered, with spots resembling 

 letters ; cf. GRAMMICUS. 



leucan'thous, -thus (\evms, white or 

 grey), white flowered ; Leu'cin or 



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