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Legume, a simple pod which dehisces in two pieces, like that of the Pea, 122. 



Leguminous, belonging to legumes, or to the Leguminous Family. 



Lenticular, lens-shaped ; i. e. flattish and convex on both sides 



Lappaceuus, bur-like. 



Lasio, Greek for woolly or hairy, as Lasianthus, woolly-flowered. 



Lateritious, brick-colored. 



Laticiferous, containing latex, 138. 



Latus, Latin for broad, as Latifolius, broad-leaved. 



Leaf-scar, Leafstalk, petiole. 



L,enticels, lenticular dots on young bark. 



Lentiginose, as if freckled. 



Lepal, a made-up word for a staminode. 



Lepis, Greek for a scale, whence Lepidote, leprous ; covered with scurfy scales. 



Leptos, Greek for slender; so Leptophyllous, slender-leaved. 



Leukos, Greek for white; whence Leucanthous, white-flowered, &c. 



Liber, the inner bark of Exogenous stems, 140. 



Lid, see operculum. 



Ligneous, or Lignose, woody in texture. 



Ligulate, furnished with a ligule, 93. 



Ligule, Ligula, the strap-shaped corolla in many Composite, 93; the membranous 



appendage at the summit of the leaf-sheaths of most Grasses, 57. 

 Limb, the border of a corolla, &c, 89. 

 Limbate, bordered (Latin, Limbus, a border). 

 Line, the twelfth of an inch ; or French lines, the tenth. 

 Linear, narrow and flat, the margins parallel, 52. 



Lineate, marked with parallel lines. Lineolate, marked with minute lines. 

 Lingulate, Linguiform, tongue-shaped. 

 Lip, the principal lobes of a bilabiate corolla or calyx, 92. 

 Litoral or Littoral, belonging to the shore. 

 Livid, pale lead-colored. 



Lobe, any projection or division (especially a rounded one) of a leaf, &c. 

 Lobed or Lobate, cut into lobes, 55, 56; Lobulate, into small lobes. 

 Locellatc, having Locelli, i. e. compartments in a cell: thus an anther-cell is often 



bilocellate. 

 Loculament, same as loculus. 



Locular, relating to the cell or compartment (Loculus) of an ovary, &c. 

 Loculicidal (dehiscence), splitting down through the back of each cell, 123. 

 Locusta, a name for the spikelet of Grasses. 



Lodicule, one of the scales answering to perianth-leaves in Grass-flowers. 

 Loment, a pod which separates transversely into joints, 122. 

 Lomentaceous, pertaining to or resembling a loment. 

 Lorate, thong-shaped. 



Lunate, crescent-shaped. Lunulate, diminutive of lunate. 

 Lupuline, like hops. 



Lusus, Latin for a sport or abnormal variation. 

 Luteolus, yellowish; diminutive of 



Luteus, Latin for yellow. Lutescent, verging to yellow. 

 Lyrate, lyre-shaped; a pinnatifid leaf of an obovate or spatulate outline, the end- 



lobe large and roundish, and the lower lobes small, as in fig. 149. 



Macros, Greek for long, sometimes also used for large : thus Macrophyllous, long 



or large-leaved, &c. 

 Macrospore, the large kind of spore, when there are two kinds, lt>0, 161. 

 Maculate, spotted or blotched. 



Male (flowers or plants), having stamens but no pistiL 

 Mammose, breast-shaped. 

 Marcescent, withering without falling ofi. 

 Marginal, belonging to margin. 



