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LUNULATA carina [a lunula dim. a half- 

 moon] fliaped like a fmall crefcent, as in the 

 Pclygala myrtifolia , 



LURID^ \luridm, pale, wan] An order 

 of plants in the Fragmenta methodi naturalis of 

 Linnxus, containing thefe genera^ viz. Capfi- 

 cum, Solanum, Phyfalis, Hyofcyajnus, Nicotiana, 

 Jtropa, Mandragora, Datura, Verhcfcutn, Celfta, 

 Digitalis : fiint plantse fufpeftje. Lin. 



LUTEA LaSlefcentia [a luteum, the yolk of 

 an egg] yellow, as in the Chelidonium-y Bocconia, 

 Sanguinaria, Cambogia. 



Luteus Flos, yellow, as the Iris liitea. Park, 



LUXURIANS Flos, a luxuriant flower. 

 Flowers are called luxuriant, when the tegu- 

 ments of their fruftification are augmented fo 

 as to exclude fome of their other elTential parts. 

 Thefe are either multiplicaius, pknus, or proU- 

 fer. The part ufually multiplied is the Corolla, 

 but fometimes the Calyx alfo. 



LYRxATUM Folium {lyra, an harp or lyre] 



eft tranfverfum divifum in lacinias, ita ut fuperiores 

 7najores funt, ^ inferiorcs remotiores ; divided 

 tranfverfely into lacinia, the fuperior ones 

 jjeing larger, and the inferior farther difi:ant 



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