INDEX AND GLOSSARY. 
Labiate, 104, 5. 
Laciniate, 233, 20. 
Lactescent; milky or juicy. 
Lamina, 102. 
Lanate; woolly. 
Lanceolate, 232, 5. 
Lateral; relating to the side. 
Latex, 265. ° 
Laticiferous tissue, 34, 207, c. 
Leaf consists of, 27. 
“« form of, 231. 
“* color of, 215. 
- © margin of, 235. 
** surface of, 237. 
“ functions of, 267. 
“¢ duration of, 257. 
Leaf-bud, 167. 
Leaflets, 239. 
Leaves, arrangement of, 218. 
Legume, 116, 4. 
Leguminous ; having legumes. 
Lenticular ; lens-shaped. 
Liber, 205, 206. 
Ligneous ; woody. 
Lignla, or ligule; the membrane at the 
top of the sheath of pores &c. 
Ligulate; strap-shaped. 
Liliaceous, 105, 3. 
Limb, 103. 
Linear, 234, 23. 
Linnean Classes, 73, 74. 
Linnean Orders, 80. 
Loculicidal, 115, 1. 
Loment; a jointed legume. 
Lunate ; crescent-shaped. 
Lyrate, 232, 14. 
Marescent; withering on the plant. 
Marginal; on the margin. 
Medulla; pith. 
Medullary rays, 204. 
Medullary sheath, 200. 
Membranous, or membranaceous; with 
the texture of membrane. 
Mericarp; half-fruit. 
Mesosperm, 118. 
Midrib, 226. Midvein, 226. 
Mineral defined, 9. 
Monadelphous; stamens all united. 
Monandrous; with one stamen. 
Moniliform, 147, 4. 
Monocotyledonous plants, 126. 
Monececious ; stamens and pistils apart, in 
separate flowers on the same plant. 
Monopetale, 354. 
Monopetalous, 101. 
Monosepalous, 96. 
Mucronate, 236, 6. 
Multifid; many-cleft. 
Muricate ; with hard short points. 
Naked ovules, or seeds, 111, a. 
Napiform, 145, c. 
Narcotic ; prisons sleep or torpor. 
Natural System, 341. 
125 
Nectariferous ; producing honey. 
Nectary, 107, a. 
Nerves, 227. 
Hat eund 229. 
Nodding; in a drooping position. 
Node, 178. Siar 
Normal; regular, according to rule. 
Normal structure of plants, 61. 
‘** causes of deviation from, 63. 
Nucleus, 90. 
Nut, 116, 7. Nutrition, principles of, 310. 
Ob, in composition implies inversion, as 
obovate, inversely-ovate, &c. 
Oblong, 232, 3. 
Obovate, 232, 6. 
Obvolute ; 217, 2. 
Obselete ; indistinct, as if worn out. 
Obtuse; blunt. Ochroleucous, yellowish- 
Octandrous ; with eight stamens. | white. 
Octogynous ; with eight styles. 
Heo used in or belonging to the 
shops. 
Offset, 191. 
Oleaginous, oily. 
Operculum ; the lid to a pyxis, &c. 
Opposite, 218, 3. 
Orbicular, 232, 1. 
Orders, 359. 
o names of, 360. 
Ordinal; relating to the Orders. 
Organic bases, 28. 
Organography, 2. 
Orthotropous, 121. 
Oval, 234, 24. 
Ovary, 76, 77. 
Ovate ; egg-shaped (surface), as a leaf 
Ovoid; egg-formed (solid), as a fruit. 
Ovules, &1, 89. 
Paleacious, 99, a. 
Palex, 256. 
Palmate, 147, a. 
Panduriform ; fiddle-shaped, rounded at 
the ends, narrow in the middle. 
Panicle, 304. ; 
Papilionaceous, 105, 5. 
Papillose ; producing small glandular ex- 
crescences. 
Pappus, 99, a. 
Parasitic ; growing upon or nourished by 
another. : 
Parallel-veined, 229, 2. 
Parenchyma, 29, 261. 
Parietal placente, 
Pectinate ; comb-like, with long, narrow 
segments. 
Pedate ;=when the palmate leaf has the 
two lateral lobes cut into two or more 
segments. 
Pedicel, 288. 
Pedicellate ; furnished with a pedicel. 
Peduncle, 287, 288. 
Pellucid ; transparent. 
Peltate, 233, 21. 
