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GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 



Jugcv, : the pairs of partial petioles or 

 leaflets of a pinnatcly-compouiul 

 leaf, 104. 



JaglandaeciE, 47G. 



Jujube, 408. 



Ju/us : a name for a catkin. 



Julaceoiis : shaped like or resembling a 

 catkin. 



Juncaecce, 495. 



Jinicngineae, 4S7. 



Jungcrmanniacere, 505. 



Juniper-berries, 480. 



Jute, 400. 



Keel: see Carina, 254. 



Keeled: furnished with a keel or sharp 



ridge underneath. 

 Kernel of an ovule, 297, or seed, 322. 

 Keif fruit, 314. 

 Kidney-shaped: see Reniform; 157, fig. 



245. 

 Kingdom, 362, 15. 

 Kinic acid, 433. 

 Kino, 414. 

 Knot : see Node, 92. 

 Knotted: a cylindrical body swollen into 



knobs at intervals. 

 Krameriacese, 412. 



Labellum : the lip, or lower petal of an 

 Orehidcous flower. 



Labiatffi, 450 



Labiate: two-lipped, 278. 



Labiatifloiae, 436. 



Lac, 475. 



Lacimate: slashed ; cut into narrow in- 

 cisions ; these are called lacinice. 



Lactescent: yielding milky juice. 



Ldcunose : full of depressions or exca- 

 vations (lacdiue). 



Lacustrine: belonging to lakes. 



Ladanum, 394. 



Livvigate: smooth as if polished. 



Lane'niform : shaped like a Florence 

 flask (lagenu). 



Lalo, 399. 



Lame'/ke: thin plates, like the gills of an 

 Agaric, 507, &c. 



Lamellar, or lamellate : composed of flat 

 plates. 



Lamina (a plate) : the blade of a leaf, 

 petal, &c, 145,276. 



Lanate, lanose : woolly; i e clothed 

 with soft interlaced haiis. 



Lanceolate: lance-shaped ; fig 239. 



Lamir/inons: cottony or woolly. 



Latent buds, 167. 



Lateral: belonging, or attached to, the 

 sides of an organ. 



Latex: milky or proper juice, 49. 



Laticiferous tissue or vessels, 49. 



Lauraceoe, or Lauiinca:, 466. 



Lax: loose; the opposite of close or 



crowded. 

 Lcu/erinrj, 102. 

 Leaf, 133. 



Leaf-arrangement (phyllotaxis), 133. 

 Leaf-bud, 72, 93. 

 Leaf-f/reen, 58. 

 Leafet : a separate piece or partial blade 



of a compound leaf, 163. 

 Leaf-stalk, 145, 170. 

 Leaf-scurs, 94. 

 Leathery : sec Foliaceous. 

 Legume: a fruit like a Pea-pod, 315. 

 Leguminc, 198. 



Lcguminosajf Leguminous Plants), 412. 

 Leguminous: relating to legumes. 

 Lcmnacea;, 486. 

 Lemon, 401 

 Lentibulaccse, 445. 

 Lenticels: little spots on the bark, whenco 



roots often issue. 

 Lenticular : lens-shaped ; double-convex. 

 Lentil ) inose: freckled, or dusty-dotted. 

 Lepals : sterile transformed stamens. 

 Lepidute : leprous ; scaly or scurfy, 52. 

 Leucantlious : white-flowered. 

 Liber: the inner fibrous bark, 120, 127. 

 Lid: see Operculum, 502. 

 Lichcnes (Lichens), 505 

 Liclieriolocjtj : the part of Botany devoted 



to Lichens. 

 Licorice, 414. 



LJgneous : woody in texture. 

 Li'gninc, 36, 195". 

 Lignum-vitaj, 405. 



Ligulate: strap-shaped, 255; having a 

 Lnjnle: a strap-shaped corolla, 255, rig. 



325, d ; the appendage between the 



blade and the sheath of the leaf in 



Grasses, 170. 

 Ligulifloioe, 436. 

 Liguhforous: when a head consists of 



ligulate flowers only, as Cichory, 



fig 323. 

 Liliaccae, 493. 

 Liliaceous: lily-like, 276. 

 Limb (l.imbus,a border) ; the expanded 



part or border of a corolla, calyx, 



&e , or the lamina or blade of a 



petal, &c, 145,276. 

 Limbate: bordeied. 

 Lime, 401. 

 Limnanthaccce, 404. 

 Linacca:, 402. 



Line: the twelfth of an inch. (Tn deci- 

 mal measures, the tenth of an inch.) 

 Linear: narrow and much longir than 



broad? the two margins parallel; 



fig. 24 

 Lineate : marked with lines. 

 Lincofate : marked with fine or obscure 



lines. 



