GLOSSARY OF TERMS. 



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Labiate, 80. 



Laciniate, cut or divided into seg- 

 ments. 



Lactescent, yielding a white, or 

 milky juice, when wounded ;.as 

 in the Poppy. 



Lacunose, covered with little pits or 

 depressions. 



Lamellated, in thin plates. 



iMinina, 41. 



fMnceolate, spear shaped, narrow, 

 with both ends acute. 



jMnuginous, woolly. 



Lateral, at the side* 



Lax, loose, not compact. 



Lcafet, a partial leaf, a constituent 

 of a com pound leaf. 



Legume, 151. 



Leguminous, bearing legumes. 



Ligneous, woody. 



Ligulate, ribbon shaped, a kind of 

 corol found in compound flow- 

 ers, consisting of a tube at bot- 

 tom, continued into a long flat 

 portion at top. 



Liliaceous, resembling the lily. 



Limb, 82. 



Linear, long and very narrow with 

 parallel sides. 



Lip, the front segment of an or- 

 chideous or other flower; 



Lobe, a large division or distinct 

 portion of a leaf or petal. 



Lament, 151... 



Lunate, or lunulate, shaped like a 

 half-moon. 



Lyrate, pinnatifid, with a large 

 roundish leafet at the end. 



Marcescent, withering. 



Melliferous, honey bearing. 



Membranous, or membranaceous, 

 very thin and delicate. 



Midrib, 43. 



Monadelphous, 98. 



MoniUform, arranged like the beads 

 of a necklace. 



Monocotyledonous, 178. 



Monoecious,. having barren and fer- 

 tile flowers on the same plant. 



Monopetalous, 77. 



Monopfiyllous, 76. 



Monosepalous, 76. 



Mucronate, having a small point 

 projecting from an obluse end. 



Multifid, many cleft. 



Multipartite, many parted. 



Muricate, covered with sharp spines 

 or prickles. 



Nectariferous, bearing honey. 

 Nectary, 84, 89. 

 Nerves, parallel veins, 42. 

 Nodding^ inclining to one side, 



partly drooping. 

 Nodi or nodes, 26. 

 Nodose, having many nodi or 



joints. 

 Nticamentaeeous, producing nuts. 



Ob, a particle^ which when pre- 

 fixed to any other term, denotes 

 the inversion of the usual posi- 

 tion; as obovate, obcordate, &c., 

 ?. e. inversely ovate, inversely 

 cordate, &c. 



Obconic, conic with the apex down- 

 ward. 



Obcordate, heart shaped with the 

 point inward, or downward. 



Oblong, longer than oval with the 

 sides parallel. 



Obovate, ovate, but inverted. 



Obsolete, indistinct, appearing as if 

 worn out. 



Obtuse, blunt, rounded, not acute. 



Ochroleucous, whitish yellow, 

 cream-eolour. 



Opposite, standing directly against 

 each other on opposite sides of 

 the-stem. 



Orbicular, circular. 



Oval, elliptical. 



Ovarium or ovary, 110. 



Ovate, egg shaped, oval with the 

 lower end largest. 



Ovoid, egg-like. 



Ovule, or ovulum, 122; 



Palate, a large obtuse projection 

 which closes the throat of a per- 

 sonate flower. 



Pa/ert, a term applied to the parts 

 of the corol in Grasses. 



Paleaceous, chaffy. 



Palmate, hand shaped, deeply di- 

 vided into spreading and some- 

 what equal segments. 



Panduriform, contracted in the 

 middle like a violin. 



Panicle, 68. 



Papilionaceous, 81. 



Papillose, producing small glandu- 

 lar excrescences like nipples. 



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