lobOKd 



longitudinalifl 



for LOBED ; lob'ulate, lohitla'lns, 

 having .small lol)Cs ; Lob'ule, (1) 

 a small lobe, a lobulet ; (2) Spruce's 

 Avord for the minor lobe of thfe leaf 

 of Hepaticae, the auricle of Kecs 

 and others; (3) a tongiie-like struc- 

 ture opjiosite the scutelhihi in 

 grasses, the epiblast (Van Tieg- 

 hem) ; Lob'ulus, a small lobe. 



Local'ity (Jocalitas, a place), the ap- 

 proximate geographic position of 

 an individual specimen. 



locel'late, lucella'tus, dividing into 

 LocELLi ; Locerius (dim. of loculvs, 

 a little compartment), a secondary 

 compartment, as a primitive pollen- 

 sac, wliich, by the destruction of a 

 septum, unites with an adjoining 

 locellns to form an anther-loculus. 



Loch'mad {K6xiJ--n, a thicket ; -f ad), a 

 thicket plant; Lochmi'um, a thicket 

 fonjiation^ locbmoc'ola [colo^ I in- 

 habit), and lochmopb'ilus {<pi\4o, I 

 love), dwelling in thickets ; Loch- 

 mophy'ta {<pvr6y, a plant), thicket 

 plants (Clements). 



Lochmo'dium {XoxfJi^^vs, bu.shy), a dry 

 thicket formation ; locbmodopb'ilus 

 ((pi\4<a, I love), dwelling in dry 

 thickets; Locbmodophy'ta (^i/tov, a 

 plant), dry thicket plants (Clements). 



Lo'co, disease of cattle and sheep from 

 tlieir feeding on Lo'co*plant3 or '- . 

 -weeds, chietiy species of Asiragalns 

 and Lupimis. 



Loc'oform {locus, a place; -f Form), 

 a form which differs from its nearest 

 allies by peculiarities deriveil from 

 the climate or soil (Ivuntze) ; looo- 

 greg'ifonn (yrex, g regis, a flock), 

 a. secondary or tertiary K.amiform 

 (Kuntze). 



Lor/ulament, Loculamen'tnvi (Lat. a 

 case or box) ; (1) = Loculu.s of a 

 carpel ; (2) " the pcrithecium of 

 certain Fungals" (Lindley) ; loc'ular, 

 Ipcula'ris, having cavities or Locnli, 

 ienuted further by the addition of 

 , utxi-, bl-, tri-, etc., for one-, two-, 

 three-, etc., celled ;locula'tus, divided 

 into cavities ; loculici'dal {caedo, I 

 cut), th? cavity of a pericarp <]e- 

 hiscent by the back, the dorsal 



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suture ; loc'iilcse, lor.ulo'sus, Icc'u- 

 lous, divided internally into cells, 

 l)artitioned ; Loc'ulus, (1) the cavity 

 of an ovary or anther ; (2) the peri- 

 derm of certain Fungals (Lindley) ; 

 (3) a chamber in the apex of the 

 testa of a fossil seed (F. W. Oliver). 



Locus'ta (Lat crayfish or locust), the 

 spikelet in grasses. 



Lodg'er-arrangements, used by those 

 liowers which detain their insect 

 visitors. 



Ldd'icule, Lodicu'la (Lat. a small 

 coverlet), a small scale outside the 

 stamens in the Hower of grasses; 

 glumella. 



Loess, drifting dust detained and con- 

 solidated by vegetation. 



Log'otype (a.£$7os, word ; tvtos, type), 

 a type determined historically from 

 two or more original species ; adj. 

 logotyp'ic (0. F, Cook). 



Lol'iopiiyll, Etard's naviie for chlo- 

 rophyll from Loliiim and other 



grasses. 



Lo'ma, a gia.ss-stcppe in Peru, the life 

 of plants is during the winter when 

 mists moisten the soil, in summer it 

 is dried up. 



lomar'ioid, resembling the Fern genus 

 Lomaria. 



long'ipes {longns, long ; ;;««, a foot), 

 long-footed or long-stalked. 



lomenta'ceous, -reus {lomenl.um, bean- 

 meal), bearing or resembling 

 Loroents ; Lo'ment, Lomen'tiim, a 

 legume which is contracted be- 

 tween the seeds, falling apart at 

 the constrictions when mature into 

 one-seeded joints. 



Long'ipeBplankton (+ Flankton), a 

 summer boreal association composed 

 of Peridiniaceae, es[>ecially of Cera- 

 lium longipes, whence th(! name. 



longis'simus (Lat.), very long. 



LongistRmin'eae {longns, long; -|- Sta- 

 men), DeJpino's term for liowers 

 with long stamens which are wind- 

 fertilized ; adj. longistam'inate. 



Longitu'dinal Sys'tem, an old term for 

 tibro- vascular system ((Jrozii-r). 



longitudinariter,longitudina'liB(Lat.), 

 in the direction of the length. 



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