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quently with a cartilaginous margin, as In the 

 Hatnanihus cocciiicus, 



LITHOPHYTA [A/«^5, hpls, a ftone, & 

 •JuTaj , planta^ a plant] The twentieth clafs in 

 Roycn's fyftem. Thefe ai'e in fact animal produc- 

 tions, and therefore are improperly arranged in 

 a vegetable fyftem. T hey are what we call in 

 Englifli Corals, &c. 



LOBATUM Forium [xoZo^, Mus, the lobe 

 or tip of the ear] divifum ad mediunj. in partes di- 

 Jiantes, marginibus convexis ; divided almoft to 

 the centre, its lobes diftant from each other, 

 and margins convex. A leaf is termed b'llohum, 

 trilohum, &c, according to the nxmiber of its 

 lobes. The AlcheyniUa vulgaris & ininor afford 

 examples oixht folium lobatum. 



LOCULAMENTUM, a cell ; each of tTie 

 cells within that fpecies of pericarpium termed 

 capfiila. In which the feeds are lodged ; conca- 

 meratio vacua pro feminum loco : thus it is defined 

 by Linnoeus, but in its application It is not con- 

 fined to the capfula only. 



LOCULUS [dim. a locus, a place] a little 

 cell ; the minute cells which contain the pollen 

 in fome fpecies oi anthera. 



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