APPENDIX. Til 



InchipUcate. With margins foUled inward. 

 Indusium. In ferns, the scale like cover of the fruit spot. 

 Inferior. Lower; below the corolla. 

 Injlexed Bent or turned abruptly inward. 

 Inflorescence. The flowering portion of a plant. 

 Introrse. Turned inward toward the axis. 

 Involucre. A circle or circles of scales, bracts or leaves, 

 distinct or united, surrounding a flower or flower-cluster. 

 Involute. Rolled inward. 



Labellum. A lip, as in orchids. 



Labiate. Lipped; having an irregular calyx or corolla 

 unequally divided into two lips. 



Laciniate. Cut into narrow slender teeth or lobes. 



Lactescent. Yielding milky juice. 



Lamina. The blade or dilated part of a leaf. 



Lanceolate. Shaped like a lance-head. 



Legume. A 1-celled capsule opening by two valves, as 

 the pea. 



Lenticular. Lens, or lentil-shaped. 



Lignescent. Woody; becoming woody. 



Ligule. A tongue or strap-shaped body, as the corolla of 

 ray-flowers in Composite. 



Lohate. Divided into lobes. 



Localicidal. Dehiscence of the cells of a capsule through 

 the dorsal suture. 



Lonientum. Loment. A legume jointed, and usually con- 

 stricted bjtween the seeds. 



Macro. Large or hmg. 

 Marcescent . Withering and persistent. 

 Marginate. Furnished with a border. 

 Membranaceous. Thin and tiauslucent. 

 Mericarp. Division of schizocarp. 

 -merous. In parts. 

 Micro. Small. 



Monalelplda. Stamens united by their filaments into one 

 set. 



