228 EUCALYPTUS. 



Lateral : belonging to the side. 



Latex : the milky juice, etc., of plants. 



Lax : loose in texture, or sparse ; the opposite of crowded. 



Leaflet : one of the divisions or blades of a compound leaf. 



Leaf -like : same &$>foliaceous. 



Leathery : of about the consistence of leather; coriaceous. 



Legume : a simple pod, dehiscent into two pieces, like that of the Pea! 

 the fruit cf the Pea Family (Leguminosce}, of whatever shape. 



Leguminous : belonging to legumes, or the Leguminous Family. 



Lenticular : lens-shaped; i. e. fiattish and convex on both sides. 



Lepidote : leprous; covered with scurfy scales. 



Liber : the inner, fibrous bark of Exogenous plants. 



Ligneous, or Lignose : woody in texture. 



Ligulate : furnished with a ligule. 



Ligule : the strap-shaped corolla in many Compositae, the little mem- 

 branous appendage at the summit of the leaf-sheaths of most Grasses. 



Limb : the blade of a leaf, petal, etc. 



Linear : narrow and flat, the margins parallel. 



Line ate : marked with parallel lines. Lineolate : marked with minute 

 lines. 



Lingulate, Linguiform : tongue-shaped. 



Lip : the principal lobes of a bilabiate corolla or calyx; the odd and 

 peculiar petal in the Orchis Family. 



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



Locellus (plural locelli}: a small cell, or compartment of a cell, of an 

 ovary or anther. 



Locular: relating to the cell or compartment (loculus} of an ovary, etc. 



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

 of each cell. 



Locusta : a name for the spikelet of Grasses. 



Loment : a pod which separates transversely into joints. 



Lomentaceous : pertaining to or resembling a loment. 



Lorate : thong-shaped. 



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



Lyrate : lyre-shaped; a pinnatifid leaf of an obovate or spatulate out- 

 line, the end-lobe large and roundish, and the lower lobes small, as 

 in Winter-Cress and Radish. 



Mace : the aril of the Nutmeg. 



Maculate : spotted or blotched. 



Male (flowers): having stamens but no pistils. 



Mammose : breast-shaped. 



Marcescent : withering without falling off. 



Marginal: belonging to the edge or margin. 



