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Filament The thread-like part of 

 a stamen. 



Florets Little flowers. Only used 

 when a number of little flowers 

 are joined together upon one 

 receptacle, as in those of the 

 nineteenth class. 



Follicle A dry seed vessel, that 

 opens on one side only. 



Foot-stalk The stalk of flowers or 



leaves. 

 Forked Divided into two or more 



parts. 

 Frond The leaf-like part of the 



Ferns, &c. 

 Granular Consisting of small 



grains; as some roots. 



Habit Means the general appear- 

 ance of a plant. 



Hastate Shaped like a halbert, or 

 dart; as the leaves of the 

 smaller Bindweed. 



Herb A plant which dies down to 



the root every winter. 

 Imbricate Overlapping, like the 



tiles of a house. 



Indigenous Growing naturally i n 



a country. 



Inflorescence Manner of flowering. 

 Labiate Lipped, like the flowers 



of the fourteenth class. 



Lanceolate Lance-shaped ; a long 

 oval, narrow at both ends. This 

 is a very common shape of 

 leaves, as in Lance - leaved 

 Plantain. 



Lamina The thin, flat part of a 

 leaf. 



Lateral Growing on the side. 



Leaflets The small parts of a com- 

 pound leaf. 



Legume A kind of seed vessel ; a 

 pod, as in the Pea. 



Leguminous Plants which bear 



legumes, or pods, 

 Limb The flat part of a corolla 



which is formed of one petal ; 



the rest of it is called the tube. 



The Primrose is an example. 

 Linear The shape of a narrow 



leaf which is of the same width 



nearly all the way down. 



Lipped Having one or two lips. 

 (See Labiate.) 



Lobe The different parts of a 

 partly-divided leaf, &c. 



Lyrate A leaf is called lyrate 

 when it has at the end a large, 

 roundish lobe, and at the sides 

 two or three narrow, small, 

 oblong lobes; as in the Wall 

 Lettuce. 



Midrib The centre large vein of 



a leaf. 

 Mucronate Ending in a point. 



Nut A hard, stony seed-vessel, 



containing a kernel. 

 Oblong With nearly straight sides 



and blunt at both ends. 



Obtuse Blunt at the end. 



Opposite The leaves on the diffe- 

 rent sides of a stem even with 

 each other are called opposite. 



