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INTRODUCTION. 



Lanceolatus, spear-shaped. 



Lanceolato-ovatum, spear egg-shaped. 



Lanugo, soft wool or down. 



Lateral, branches or flowers ; those growing from the sides 

 of the stem, opposed to terminating. 



Latticed, (cancellatus) open like lattice-work. 



Laxus, limber, loose. 



Leaf. See Folium. 



Leaflet, a little leaf; a single leaf, or part of a compound 

 leaf. 



Leaf-stalk, (petiolus) the foot-stalk of a leaf. 



Leather-like, tough and pliable like leather. 



Legumen, that species of the seed-vessel termed a pod, in 

 which the seeds are fastened along one suture only. 



Leprosus, rough like the skin of a leper. 



Liber, the inner bark or rind of plants. 



Lignosus, woody. 



Lignum, wood. 



Ligulatus, strap-shaped. 



Limbus, (limb) the limb or upper expanded part of a flower, 

 consisting of only one petal, opposed to the tube, which 

 is the lowest part. 



Linear, narrow, with the sides as nearly parallel as pos- 

 sible. 



Ungulate, tongue-shaped. 



Lip, (labium) the upper or under division of a gaping blos- 

 som. 



Lobatus, lobed, with the margins of the segments rounded. 



Lobes, divisions nearly half way down the leaves, which are 

 convex at the edges, and distant from each other. 



Loculamenti, and loculi, cells or pockets : the internal divi- 

 sions of a capsule, or other dry seed-vessel, so termed. 



Lopped, (truncatus) appearing as if cut off. 



Lucidum, transparent. 



Lunatum, Lunulatum, crescent-shaped. 



Luxuriant, (luxurians.) 



Luxurians, luxuriant, or double flower, some of whose parts 

 are increased in number, to the diminution or entire ex- 

 clusion of others. 



Lyre-shaped, (lyratus) as the leaves of Herb Bennet. 



M 



Maculated, spotted ; sprinkled with spots or stains. 



Marcescens, shrivelling. 



Marginatus, bordered. 



Masculus, male ; a flower which contains the stamina, or 

 male organs of generation : but not the stigma, or fe- 

 male organ. 



Matted, (csespitosus) thickly interwoven together, as the 

 fibres in turf-bogs. 



Medulla, pith. 



Membranaceous, (membranaceus) thin, shining, and semi- 

 transparent, like parchment. 



Mid-rib, the principal nerve which runs from the base to- 

 wards the end of a leaf, along its middle. 



Monadelphia, from pavo?, alone ; and ae\0/a, a brother- 

 hood : a single brotherhood. The sixteenth class in Lin- 

 neus's Sexual arrangement; in which the plants have her- 

 maphrodite flowers, with all the stamina or male organs 

 of generation united below into one body or cylinder, 

 through which the pointed or female organ passes. 



Monimilriii, from fiovov, alone ; and avr/p, a husband : the 

 first class of the Sexual System of Linneus ; in which 

 the plants have hermaphrodite flowers, with only one 

 stamina or male organ. 



Monocotyledones, single cotyledons ; plants whose seeds have 

 only one lobe, and consequently rise with a single seed- 

 leaf. 



Monxcia, from ftovot, alone ; and onct'a, a house : the name 

 of the twenty-first class of the Sexual System. The 

 plants have male and female flowers placed apart ; that 

 is, within different covers on the same root. 



Monogynia, from fiovos, alone ; and <yin^, a woman ; the 

 name of the first order of subdivision, in the first thirteen 

 classes of the Linnean System. It consists of plants, 

 which, besides their agreement in their classic distinc- 

 tions, generally derived from their number of stamina, 

 have only one pistil, or female organ. 



Monopetalous, having only one petal. See Petalum. 



Monophyllous, one-leafed. 



Monosperma, one-seeded. 



Monostachyos a single spike. 



Mouth. See Fauces. 



Mucronate, (mucronatum) sharp-pointed. 



Mucranatum, mucronate; a dagger-pointed-leaf, sharp- 

 pointed at the end. 



Mules. See Hybrida. 



Multangularis, many-cornered. 



Multifidum, many-clefted. 



Multiftores, many-flowered. 



Multiloculare, many-celled. 



Multipartita, having many deep divisions. 



Multivalois, many-valved ; more than two. 



Muricatus, covered with sharp points. 



Musci, mosses. 



Muticus, awnless. See Awn. 



Mutilns flus, a mutilated flower ; so called, when deprived 

 of the whole or a, greater part of its petals. 



N 



Nail. See Claw. 



Naked, (nudus) destitute of leaves ; as the tulip or cowslip 



stalk. 



Nap. See Tomentum. 

 Narrow, (ligulatus) the florets in some compound flowers, 



one tubular at the bottom, but flat and narrow, like a 



strap or fillet at the top. 

 Natans, floating. 

 Nectarium, (nectary) or honey-cup, a part of the corolla, 



containing that species of vegetable salt, called honey, 



or nectar, which oozes from the plant in a fluid form, 



and is the principal food of bees and other insects. 

 Nervosum, fibrous, ribbed. 

 Neutral , flowers or florets, such as contain neither stamina 



nor pistilla, and therefore produce no seeds. 

 Nidulatatia semina, seeds dispersed in pulp. 

 Nit ill /is, glossy. 

 Nodding, (nutans) when the flower or the fruit stalk is bent 



near the end, as in the Narcissus, 

 Nodus, a knot. 

 Notched, (emarginatus) leaves; the edges cut something 



like the teeth of a large timber saw. 

 Nucleus, kernel ; the seed enclosed in a nut, or hard bony 



shell. See Nux. 

 Nudum, naked. 

 Nutanf, nodding ; but, applied to a panicle, more properly 



drooping. 

 Nux, nut ; a species of seed, covered by a hard bony shell 



which is also sometimes covered with a fleshy substance, 



and is then called a stone. 



