Lime 



Lip 



in plants ; '-- Gran'ules, lime-knots in 

 Myxogasties, concretions occurring 

 in the capiliitium ; '*- Scales, the 

 chaik-glands which excrete lime, as 

 with certain Saxifrages. 



Li'mes (Lat., a cross-path or boundary) 

 commu'nisi, the colhiDni or neck of 

 a plant. 



limic'oloas {limicola, a dweller in 

 ir.ud), growing in mud, as on the 

 margins of pools. 



lim'itary {limitaris, pertaining to a 

 "boundary), placed at the limit, as 

 a guard ; limiting, restricting ; '- 

 Ceil = H'eterocyst; --' Fae'tor, 

 the factor in growth which fails 

 first ; it may be humidity, or light, 

 or temperature, etc. 



lim'itate (limitatus, restricted), limited 

 or bounded by a distinct line of 

 hypothallus in Lichens (Leighton). 



Lim'nad (AiV»''?, a lake ; -\- ad), a lake 

 plant (Clements) ; Limnae'a Forma- 

 tion, aquatic plants with a loose 

 substratimi of soil; limnetic, applied 

 to plants which grow -in pools or 

 their neighbourhood ; Limni'um, 

 lake formation ; Limno'bion {fiios, 

 life), organic associations occurring 

 in fresh water; cf. Halobion,' 

 Geobion. 



Limno'dad {\i,uucoSr)s, marshy; + ad), 

 a plant of a salt marsh ; Limnodi'um, 

 employed by Ganong for wild salt 

 marsh vegetation ; limnodoplillas 

 {<pi\4(c, I iQve), marsh-loving ; Lim- 

 XLOdopliy''ta {(pvrhv, a plant), marsh 

 plants (Clements). 



Limnone'reid i^i/j-vn) a lake ; "Sripeh, a 

 sea-nymph), freshwater algal sub- 

 formation ; limnoph'ilus (i>i\4<i>, I 

 love), pond-loving ; Limatophy'ta 

 {^vrhv, a plant), pond plants 

 (Clements) ; Linmoplauk'ton (-f 

 Plankton), the floating vegetation 

 of freshwater pools or streams. 



Li'namarin {linurn, flax), a glucosidc 

 in linseed, Linum; the same as 

 Phaseolunatin ; Li'nase, an enzyme 

 in flax (Armstrong). 



Line, Li'nea (Lat., a line or thread), 

 as a measure of length, the twelfth 

 part of an inch, in millimetres, 



2-1167 ; the Paris line is 2-325 

 mm^ ; '- Tran'sect, a record of 

 the plants occurring along a straight 

 line (Clements) ; Li'vca transversa' lis, 

 the ostiolum of some Fungi ; Lines 

 of Gro'Wtii, the limits of each year's 

 growth in woody stems ; <-' of Vege- 

 ta'tion, for any giveu species, those 

 obtained by joining all the places in 

 a given direction where the species 

 stops ; the resultant lines map out 

 the distribution of the said species 

 (Kerner) ; linea lis (Lat., consisting 

 of lines), measuring about a line ; 

 lin'ear, Unea'ris, narrow, several 

 times longer than wide ; lin'eate, 

 Ihua'tus, marked with lines; liiiea'ta 

 Va'sa I, vessels transversely marked, 

 as annulate ducts or tracheids ; line- 

 a'tipes X {pes, a foot), having a lined 

 or striated foot-stalk; lined = lineate, 

 stiiate ; lin'eolate, lineola'tiis, marked 

 with fine or obscure lines. 



linguiform'is {lingua, a tongue ; forma, 

 shape), tongue -slhaped ; ling'ulate, 

 lingula'tus, also means tongue- 

 shaped. 



Li'nin or Li'nine {xivov, a thread), tlie 

 hyaloplasmic filaments of the nucleus 

 in repose (Schwarz). 



Linn'ean Syst'em, the artificial classifi- 

 cation devised by Linnaeus, based 

 upon the number and position of the 

 stamens and pistils. 



Li'nolein {linum, flax; oUum, oil), 

 "the glyceride of lineoleic acid 

 found in linseed oil. " 



Li'nom = Linin. 



linosp'orous {li)iea, a line ; -j- Spore), 

 employed by G. F. Atkinson for 

 "linear spored." 



Liorhi'zae {Xttos, smooth ; piCa, root). 

 Van Tiegliem's name for Mono- 

 cotyledons and Nymphaeaceae, the 

 root-hairs being of exodermic origin ; 

 liorhi'zal, pertaining to Liohhizae. 



Lip, (1) one of the two divisions of a 

 bilabiate corolla or calyx, that is» 

 a gamopetalous or gamosepalous 

 organ cleft into an upper (superior 

 or posterior) and a lower (inferior 

 or anterior) portion ; (2) the label- 

 lum of Orchids ; <^ Cells, two narrow, 



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