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LATER IFOLTUS Pedmculus [btus, a fide, 

 'tl folium^ a leaf 3 proceeding from the fide of 

 the bafts of a leaf, as in the Claytoniay Solanum, 

 Afperifolice. 



LAXUS Caulh ; lank, oppofed to rigidus, 



LEGUMEN, pulfe ; a Pencarplum of two 

 ValvuliE, in which the feeds are fixed along one 

 future onlj'^, as in the Pifiim, &c. Miller mif- 

 takes the Legumen for the Siliqua. 



LENTICULARIS Scalrhies [dim. a hm, a 

 lentil] A fpecies of glandular Scabrities, rough- 

 nefs, fcarce vifible to the naked eye, refembling 

 fmall lentils, on the furface of fome plants. 



LEPROSUS [a Lepra, leprofy] fpotted like 

 a leper, exemplified in the Lichen. 



LEVIS CauHs [^rather Acw] fmooth, having 

 an even furface ; oppofed to Jiriatus, fukatus j 

 as in the CheUdotiium hybridum. 



Leve Folium., as in the Statice limonium, 



LIBER, the inner bark or rind of a tree or 

 plant, diftindl: from the cortex, which is the out- 

 er : thus, according to Linna;us, the calyx is a 



continuation 



