138 NAMES OF PLANTS. 



botanist and microscopist. Presl in adopting it, and 

 giving it a new application, writes it Lastrea." — 

 Moore, ' Nature -printed British Ferns.' 



Lathe.¥/a, Linneus. G., lathrce, hidden, or concealed ; the 

 plant being often much concealed by dead leaves. 



Lath^^rus, Theophrastus. Name for some leguminous 

 plant; the exact one is not known. 

 Aph'aca, Dioscorides. G., apliace. Name formerly given 

 to two or three small leguminous plants. Dodonaeus 

 gives us a picture of this plant under the name 

 Aphace. Matthiolus gives us Yicia sativa (of Lin- 

 neus) as the Aphace of Dioscorides. 

 Nisso^lia, Tournefort. Named in honour of M. G. Nissole, 

 a professor of Botany at Montpellier, who died there 

 in 1734. 



Lavate'ra, Tournefort. Named in honour of the two 

 Lavaters, physicians and naturalists of Zurich, and 

 friends of Tournefort. 



Leer'sia. Named in honour of John Daniel Leers, a Ger- 

 man botanist, who published a ' Flora Herbornensis,' 

 and died at Herborn in 1774. 



Lem'na, Theophrastus. G. name for the plant, the origin of 

 which is unknown. The only derivation I have seen 

 suggested is from le2ns, a scale, but this is scarcely 

 probable. 



Leon'todon, Linneus. G., leon, lion's, and odon, tooth ; 

 from the tooth-like margins of the leaves. 

 Taraxacum, Lonicerus. G., tarass, change ; on accomit of 

 its supposed effects on the blood. 



Leonu'rus, Linneus. From G., leon, a lion, and oura, a 



tail; on account of the supposed resemblance. 



Cardi'aca, Fuchs. L., affecting the stomach ; because of 



its repute formerly as a remedy for that disease of 



the stomach that we call heartburn. Fuchs attributes 



