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are fixed along one suture only, as in the common Pea and 



Bean. 

 Lenticularis scabrities. A species of glandular scabritis, in the 



form of lentils. 

 Leprosus. Spotted like a leopard, exemplified in many Li- 



chens. 

 Laevis caulis. Smooth, a stem having an even surface. 

 Liber. The inner rind or bark of a plant. 

 Lignosus caulis. A woody stem. 

 Lignum. Wood. 

 Ligulatos Jlos. When the petals, tubulated at the base, are 



strap-shaped, and widest at the extremity. See as an ex- 

 ample, the magnified Floret of the Dandelion, Class xix. 

 Liliaceae. Like a lily, a natural Order of plants in the Fragmen- 

 ts methodi naturalis of Linnaeus. 

 Limbus. A border. The upper expanded part of a monope- 



talous flower. 

 Linea. A line. The second degree in the Linnaean scale for 



measuring plant?, the twelfth part of an inch. 

 Lineare folium. A narrow leaf, whose opposite margins are 



almost parallel, as in the Genus Pinus. 

 Lineatum folium. A leaf, whose supeifices are marked with 



parallel lines, running lengthways. 

 Lingulatum folium. A leaf shaped like a tongue. 

 Lobatum folium. When a leaf is divided to the middle into 



parts, which are separated from each other. Ex. Dionaea 



muscipula, Class x. Order 1. 

 Loculamentum. A cell. The divisions of that species of peri- 

 carpi um called a capsula, as in the Cyamus Nelumbo, &c. 

 Locus foliarum. The particular part of the plant to which the 



leaves are affixed. 

 Lomentaceae. Bean meal. A natural Order of plants in the 



Fragmenta methodi naturalis of Linnaeus. 

 Longiusculus. Longish. 

 Longum perianthium. When the tube of the calyx is equal in 



length to that of the corolla. 



