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



Leguminous, belonging to legumes, <>r tn the Leguminous Family. 



Lenticular, lens-shaped j i. e. flattish and convex on both Bides. 



L i/ipaceous, bur-like. 



/.asio, Greek for woolly or hairy, a^ Lasianthus, woolly-flowered. 



Lati ritiout, brick-colored. 



Laticiferous, containing latex, l'!8. 



Latus, Latin for broad, as Latif alius, broad-leaved. 



Leaf-sear, Leafstalk, petiole. 



Lt nticels, lenticular dots on young bark. 



Lenliginuse, as if freckled. 



Lepal, a made-up word for a Btaminode. 



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



Leptoe, Greek tor slender: so Leptophyllous, Blender-leaved. 



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



Liber, the inner bark of Exogenous steins, 140. 



Lid, see operculum. 



Ligneous, or Lignose. woodv 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. 

 Locellate, 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. 

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

 Lomentaceous, pertaining to or resembling a toment 

 Lornt, , thong-shaped. 



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

 Lu/iuline, like hops. 



Lusus, Latin for a sport or abnormal variation. 

 Luteolut, yellowish; diminutive of 



Lut, us. Latin for yellow. Lutescmt, verging to yellow. 



Lj/rate, lyre-shaped; a pinnatifid leaf of an obovateor Bpatulate outline, the end- 

 lobe large and roundish, ami the lower loins small, is in fig. 14!'. 



Macros, Greek for long, Munetimes also used for large: thus Macrophyllous, long- 

 or large-leaved, &c. 



.\facrospore, the large kind of spore, when there are two kinds, 160, 16L 



Maculate, spotted or blotched. 



Mai, ( (lowers or plants), having stamens but no pistil 



Mammose, breast-shaped. 



Marcescent, withering without falliug off. 



Marginal, belonging to margin. 



