14122 APPENDIX. 
Lametia. A thin plate or scale. 
LAMELLAR, LAMELLATE. Composed of thin plates, or furnished with them. 
Lamina. The blade or dilated portion of a leaf. 
Lanate. Clothed with woolly hairs. 
LanceouaTe. Shaped like a lance-head; tapering upwards from a narrow 
ovate base. 
Lanueinovus. Clothed with long woolly or cottony hairs. 
Laterat. At the side; fixed on or near the side. 
Lax. Loose, distant. 
Lecums. The seed-vessel of Leguminose ; a one-celled and two-valved capsule, 
of very various form. 
Lecuminovus. Pertaining to or bearing legumes; belonging to the order Legumz- 
nose. 
Lenticet. Lenticular corky spots on young bark, corresponding to epidermal 
stomata. 
Lenticuuar. Lens-shaped. 
Lentictnovus. Covered with minute dots or freckles. 
Leprpotr. Covered with small scurfy scales. 
Licute. (1.) A strap-shaped body, as the limb of the corolla in the florets of 
Composite. (2.) The thin scarious appendage at the junction of the leaf- 
blade with the sheath in grasses. 
Liaunatse. Furnished with a ligule; strap-shaped. 
Live. (1.) The expanded and usually spreading part of a gamopetalous corolla, 
as distinct from the tube. (2.) The lamina of a petal or leaf. 
Linear. Narrow and elongated, with parallel margins. 
Linzeate. Marked with lines. 
Liyzouate. Marked with fine lines. ; 
Lineurrorm, LincuLate. Tongue-shaped. 
Lie. (1.) Either of the two divisions of a bilabiate corolla or calyx. (2.) The 
labellum of orchids. 
LirroraL. Growing near the sea-shore. 
Losz. Any division of a leaf, corolla, &c., especially if rounded. 
Losr, Lopatre. Divided into or bearing lobes. 
Losute. A small lobe. 
Losunate. Having small lobes. 
Locetiate. Divided into secondary cells or compartments. 
LocutcrpaL. When the cells of a capsule open along the back between the 
septa, or by the dorsal suture. 
LopicutE. A name applied to the minute hyaline scales just outside the stamens 
in the flowers of grasses. 
Lorats. Strap-shaped; thong-shaped. 
Luctp. Having a shining surface. 
Lunate. Half-moon shaped. 
Lurip. Of a dingy brown or yellow. 
Lutescent. Yellowish. 
Lyrate. Lyre-shaped; pinnatifid with the terminal lobe large and rounded, 
the lower lobes small. 
MACROSPORANGIUM. A sporangium containing macrospores. 
Macrosporz. The larger kind of spore in vascular cryptogams. 
Macutate. Spotted or blotched. 
Matz. A plant or flower which possesses stamens. 
Mammritia. A nipple or teat-shaped projection. 
MammMituatE. Having nipple-shaped projections. 
Marcescent. Withering and persistent. 
Marerat. Placed upon or belonging to the edge or margin. 
Mararwate, MarGIneD. Furnished with an edge or border of a different character 
to the rest of the organ. 
