

GLOSSARY. 221 



Lepidote : leprous ; covered with scurfy scales. 



Liber: the inner, fibrous bark of Exogenous plants; p. 152. 



Ligneous, or Lignose : woody in texture. 



Liyulate: furnished with a ligule ; p. 106. 



Ligule: the strap-shaped corolla in many Composite, p. 106, fig. 220; the 



little membranous appendage at the summit of the leaf-sheaths of most 



Grasses. 



Limb: the blade ot a leaf, petal, &c. ; p. 54, 102. 

 Linear: narrow and flat, the margins parallel; p. 58, fig. 85. 

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

 Lingulate, Lingiiiform : tongue-shaped. 

 Lip: the principal lobes of a bilabiate corolla or calyx, p. 105 ; the odd and 



peculiar petal in the Orchis Family. 



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

 Locettus (plural locetti) : a small cell, or compartment of a cell, of an ovary or 



anther. 



Ldcular : relating to the cell or compartment (loculus) of an ovary, &c. 

 Loculicidal (dehiscence) : splitting down through the middle of the back of each 



cell ; p. 132, fig. 305. 



Locusta : a name for the spikelet of Grasses. 



Loment: a pod which separates transversely into joints; p. 131, fig. 304. 

 Lomentdceous : pertaining to or resembling a loment. 

 Ldrate : thong-shaped. 



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

 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 Winter- 

 Cress and Radish, fig. 59. 



Mace: the aril of the Nutmeg; p. 135. 



Maculate : spotted or blotched. 



Male (flowers) : having stamens but no pistil. 



Mdmrnose : breast-shaped. 



Marcescent : withering without falling off. 



Marginal: belonging to the edge or margin. 



Marginate : margined, with an edge different from the rest. 



Masked: see personate. 



Median : belonging to the middle. 



Medullary: belonging to, or of the nature of pith (medulla) ; pithy. 



Medullary Rays: the silver-grain of wood ; p. 151. 



Medullary Sheath: a set of ducts just around the pith; p. 151. 



membranaccous or Membranous : of the texture of membrane ; thin and more or 



less translucent. 

 Meniscoid : crescent-shaped. 



Me'ricarp : one carpel of the fruit of an Umbelliferous plant. 

 Merismatic: separating into parts by the formation of partitions within. 

 M.e~socarp: the middle part of a pericarp, when that is distinguishable into three 



layers ; p. 128. 

 Mesophlceum : the middle or green bark. 



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