140 NAMES OF PLA.NTS. 



Linn.e'a, Gronovius. Named in honour of Linneus, with 

 his concurrence, by his friend Dr. J. F. Gronovius. 

 It is a " little northern plant, long overlooked, de- 

 pressed, abject, flowering early, which Linneus selected 

 to transmit his own name to posterity." — Smith, 

 Eng. Fl. 



Linosy'eis. Named from L., lin, flax, and osyris, an appel- 

 lation given by Pliny to a plant with supple branches, 

 and leaves like flax. 



Li'num, Theophrastus. From G., linon, flax, changed in L. 

 to linum. 



Lip'aeis. G., liparos, fat, or unctuous to the touch. 



Lis'teea, E. Brown. Named in honour of Dr. Martin 

 Lister, a British naturalist, who died in 17 IL 

 Ni'dus-avis. L., nidus, nest,, ai? is, of a bird. 



Lithospep/mum, Dioscorides. G., litho, stone, and simin, 

 seed ; on account of its seeds being very hard. 



Littoeel'la, Linneus. L., lit, the shore; which is its 

 place of grow^th. 



Lloyd'ia. Named in honour of Mr. Edward Lloyd, a 

 learned Welsh antiquarian and naturalist of the 

 seventeenth century, who first discovered this plant 

 in Britain. 



Lobe'lia, Plumier. Named in honour of Lobel. See p. 40. 

 DortmaiVna, Linneus. Named in honour of Dortmann, a 

 Dutch apothecary, wdio did good service to Botany. 



Loiseleu'eea. After the French botanist Loiseleur Deslong- 

 champs, who published a Flora of France, and other 

 botanical works, and died in 1849. 



Lol'ium, Pliny. L. for Darnel. 



Loma'eia, Willdenow. From G. loma, the hem or border of 

 a robe ; from the marginal sori. 



Lonice'ea, Linneus. Named in honour of Lonicer. See p. 38. 

 Pericly'meniim, Dioscorides. From G. iieri-cleio, I enclose 



