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GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 



Jurjcn : the pnirs of partial petioles or 

 leaflets of a pinnately-compound 

 leaf, 164. 



Juglandaeeas, 476. 



Jujube, 408. 



Julus ; a name for a catkin. 



Julaceoiis : shaped hke or resembling a 

 catkin. 



Jun caeca?, 495. 



Juncaginese, 487. 



Jun<rcniiiiniiiacea2, 50.''). 



Juniiier-berries, 480. 



Jute, 400. 



Keel: see Carina, 2.'54. 



Keeled: furnislied with a keel or shai-p 



ridfre underneath. 

 Kernel of an ovule, 297, or seed, 322. 

 Keii-fruit, 314. 

 Kicljiei/shajjed : see Rcniform ; 157, fig. 



245. 

 Kingdom, 362, 15. 

 Kinie acid, 433. 

 Kino, 414. 

 K)iot : see Node, 92. 

 Knotted: a cylindrical body swollen into 



knobs at intervals. 

 KrameriaeeiB, 412. 



Labellnm: the lip, or lower petal of an 



Orchidcous flower. 

 Labiate, 450. 

 Labiate: two-lipped, 278. 

 LabiatifloraB, 436. 

 Lac, 475. 

 Laciiiitite: slashed ; cut into narrow in- 



cif^ions ; tliese are called lacinice. 

 Lactescent: yielding milky juice. 

 Ldctinose : full of depressions or exca- 

 vations {Iucuikje). 

 Lanht ri ne : belonging to lakes. 

 Ladanum, 394. 



LcevKjiite: smooth as if polished. 

 Lage'iiifcrm : shaped like a Florence 



flask (Idr/ena). 

 Lalo, 399. 

 LaiHc'Ike : thin plates, like the gills of an 



Agaric, 507, &c. 

 Lamellar, or lamellate : composed of flat 



plates. 

 Lamina (a plate) : the blade of a leaf, 



petal, &c., 145, 276. 

 Lanate, huiose : woolly ; i e. clothed 



witli soft interlaced hairs. 

 I^dnceolate : lance-shaped ; fig. 239. 

 Laniir/inons : cottony or woolly. 

 Latent hiids, 167. 

 Lateral: belonging, or attached to, the 



sides of an organ. 

 Latex: milky or proper juice, 49. 

 Lnticiferoiis tissue or I'essels, 49. 

 Lauraccaj, or Laurinese, 466. 



Lax : loose ; the opjiositc of close or 



crowded. 

 Layering, 102. 

 Lcdf] 1.33. 



Leaf-arrangement (phyllotaxis), 133. 

 Leaf-bud, 72, 93. 

 Leaf-green^ 58. 

 Leaflet : a sejiarate piece or partial blade 



of a compound leaf, 163. 

 Leafstalk, 145, 170. 

 Leaf-scars, 94. 

 Leathery : sec Foliaceous. 

 T^eyume: a fruit like a Pea-pod, 315. 

 Legumine, 198. 



Lcguminosa3( Leguminous Plants), 412. 

 Legumittous : relating to legumes. 

 Lemnaceae, 486. 

 Lemon, 401. 

 Lentibulaccce, 445. 

 Lenticels : little spots on the bark, whence 



roots often issue. 

 Lenticular: lens-shaped; double-convex. 

 Lentii/inose: freckled, or dusty-dotted. 

 Lepals : sterile transformed stamens. 

 Lepidote : leprous ; scaly or scurfy, 52. 

 Leucantlious : white-flowered. 

 Liber : tlie inner fibrous bark, 120, 127. 

 Lid: see Operculum, 502. 

 Liclienes (Lichens), 505. 

 Lichenologi] : the part of Botany devoted 



to Lichens. 

 Licorice, 414. 



Ligneous : woody in texture. 

 Lignine, 36, 195. 

 Lignum-vita;, 405. 



Ligulate: strap-shaped, 255 ; having a 

 Ligule: a strap-shaped corolla, 255, fig. 



325, d; the apjjendage between tlie 



blade and the sheath of the leaf in 



Grasses, 170. 

 Liguliflorje, 436. 

 Liguliflorous : when a head consists of 



ligulate flowers only, as Cichory, 



fig. 323. 

 Liliaccse, 493. 

 Liliaceous: lily-like, 276. 

 Limb {limbus,a border) ; the expanded 



part or border of a corolla, calyx, 



&c., or the lamina or blade of a 



petal, &c., 145, 276. 

 Limbate : bordered. 

 Lime, 401. 

 Limnanthacete, 404. 

 LinacciE, 402. 



Line: the twelfth of an inch. (Tn deci- 

 mal measures, the tenth of an inch. ) 

 Linear: narrow and much longer than 



broad, the two margins parallel ; 



fig. 240. 

 Lineate : marked with lines. 

 LincrJate : marked with fine or obscure 



lines. 



