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continuation of the cortex, but the corolla a con- 

 tinuation of the liber. 



LIGNOSUS CauUs [LigJtum, wood] woodf, 

 oppoled to herhaceus. 



LIGNUM, wood; one df the four confti- 

 tuent parts of the Radix, according to Llnnsiis, 

 who in his Phil. Botan. by radix iinderllrood 

 the ftem, together with what is generally meant 

 by root ; but, in his Delin. Plantee, he confines 

 the term radix to the root only, drops the 

 word caudex entirely, and fubftitutes truncus in 

 its ftead. 



LIGULATUS Flos {_Ligula, a ftrap] a fpe- 

 cies of compound flower, the corollula of whofe 

 fofculi are tubular at the bafis, flat in ihe mid- 

 dle, and expanded towards the top. Thefe 

 are the Scmiflofc'uli of Tournefort, and are of 

 the firfi: order in the clafs Syngcnefta. 



LILIACEiE [Lilium, tlie lily] An order of 

 plants in the Fragmentd methsdi naturalis of Lin- 

 i~ijeus, containing xhtie. genera, viz, Lilium^ Fri- 

 tillarla, 'Tulipa, Erythronlum. The Lillaceae^ con- 

 ftitute the ninth clafs of roornefort : they are 

 generally hexapetalus^ and. their pijlillw7i, or Ca- 

 lyx, invariably becomes a Capfula trlkcularis. 



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