BOTANICAL NAMES 129 



garden Leek is a cultivated variety of the Wild 



Leek. It is the emblem of the Welsh, because 



green and white were the old Cymric colours, and 



these two colours are found combined in the Leek. 

 Leersia. After Leers, a German botanist, died 1774. 



Bot. name for a group. 

 Leguminosae (legu-min-ose). L. " Legumen " (pulse). 



Bot. term applied to plants of the Bean or Pea kind. 

 Lemna (lem-na). G. " Lemna (a scale). Bot. name 



for Duckweed group. 

 Lemnaceae (lemna-see-e). L. "Lemna'' and "aceous" 



(like). Bot. name for the Duckweed family. 

 Lendigerum (len-di-je-rum). L. ''Lens" (a nit); 



" gerum " (a carrier). Second bot. name Nitgrass. 

 Lenormandi. After Le Normand. A second bot. name. 

 Lentibulaceae (len-ti-bul-a-se-e). L. "Lens" (lentil); 



" bula (a boss); " aceous " (like). Bot. name for 



Pinguicula family. 

 Lent Lily. " Lent " (a corruption of A.S. *' lencten," 



Spring), which was so called because the days begin 



to lengthen. Eng. name for Daffodil, because that 



flower comes into bloom at that time. 

 Lentiginosus (len-tij-in-o-sus). L. adj., " full of 



freckles"; i.e., minutely dotted over. A second 



bot. name. 

 Leontodon (le-on-to-don). G. "Leon" (a lion); 



" odous " (a tooth); from the tooth-like margins 



of the leaf. Bot. name for Hawkbit group. 

 Leonurus (le-on-ur-us). G. " Leon " (a lion) ; " ourus " 



(a tail) ; from some supposed resemblance of the 



plant. Bot. name for a group. 

 Leopard's Bane. Eng. name for Doronicum Parda- 



