GLOSSARY. Xvi 
LEGUMEN, a one celled one or many seeded two valved superior fruit, 
dehiscing by a suture along both its back and front, and 
bearing seeds along the inner margin of the neutral suture. 
LEGUMEN LOMENTACEUM, the same as legumen, except the spaces between 
each seed being contracted and jointed, and there separating 
into distinct pieces, as the pod of Ornithopus. 
LENTICULARIS, lens shaped, resembling a double convex lens. 
LEPROUS (Aereos, lepros,) covered with minute scales. 
LicHEns (Asn, lichen,) the name of one of the leafless classes of plants. 
Licnosus, woody, having the texture of wood. 
LiguLa, a membranous process at the top of the sheath of grasses. 
Lieuxarus, strap-shaped, narrow, long, with two opposite parallel margins. 
Limp or Lamina, is the expanded part of the petal or leaf. 
Lineurrormis. See tongue-shaped. 
Lin1atvs, lined or striated. 
Linear (linearis), narrow, short, with two opposite parallel margins. 
Lose (lobatus,) partly divided into segments, mostly of a determinate 
number, bi-lobed two lobed, tri-lobed three lobed, &c. 
LocuLicrpat, when a carpel opens down the middle of each valve. 
Locusta, or spikelet, the partial inflorescence of grasses. 
LomEntuM, the same as Legumen lomentaceum, 
Loose. See laxus. 
Luwnarus, crescent-shaped. 
LycopropiacE2, a tribe of Cryptogamic plants. 
Lyratus, lyre-shaped, obovate, with several sinuses on each side, which 
gradually diminish in size towards the base. 
M. 
Macutatvs, blotched with irregularly disposed patches of colour. 
ManrceEsczEns, withering, or fading before the fruit, &c., is ripe, but remain- 
ing attached to it. 
Mareinat, fixed upon the edge of anything. 
MaRSILEACE, a tribe of cryptogamic plants. 
Meaty (farinosus), covered with a white scurfy substance like flour. 
MEDULLARY RAYS, vertical radiating plate of cellular substance, proceeding 
from the medullar or pith to the cortical part or bark of the 
plant, and always maintaining a connection between them. 
MEDULLARY SHEATH, a thin layer of spiral vessels and woody tissue, form- 
: ing a sheath to the pith. 
MEMBRANACEOUS, thin, semi-transparent, like a fine membrane. 
Minp-riB, or costa, a bundle of vessels more prominent than the other, 
running from the base to the apex of the leaf. 
Mirrirorm, the calyptra of mosses, when torn equally all round from its 
base. 
Monapexpuous (j40v0s, alone, adeAPos, a brother,) when the stamens have 
the filaments united in two sets. 
Monit1rorMis (necklace-shaped,) cylindrical or terete, and contracted at 
regular intervals. 
