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Legume, a simple pod which dehisces in two pieces, like that of the Pea, 1& 



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



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



Lappaceous, 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. 



Lenticels, 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. 



LeuJcos, Greek for white; whence Leucanthous, white-flowered, &e. 



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, 67. 

 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. 

 Ungulate, Linguiform, tongue-shaped. 

 Lip, the principal lobes of a bilabiate corolla or calyx, 02. 

 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. 

 Locellate, having Locelli t i. e. compartments in a cell: thus an anther-cell is oftep 



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 apatulate 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, lon$ 



or large-leaved, &c. 



Macrotpore, the large kind of spore, when there are two kinds, 160, 181. 

 Maculate, spotted or blotched. 



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

 Mammose, breast-shaped. 

 Marcescent, withering without falling oft. 

 Marginal, belonging to margin. 



