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Legume, a simple pod which dehisces in two pieces, lilce that of the Pea, 122. 



Legmninout, belonging to legumes, or to the Leguminous Family. 



Lenticular, lens-shaped ; i. e. flattish and convex on both sides 



Lappaceous, bur-like. 



Lasio, Greeli for woolly or hairy, as Lasianthus, wpolly-flowered. 



Lateritious, briclt-colored. 



Laticiferom, containing latex, 138. 



Latus, Latin for broad, as LatifoUus, bi'oad-leaved. 



Leaf-scar, Leafstalk, petiole. 



Lenticels, lenticular dots on young bark. 



Lentiginose, as if freckled. 



Lepal, a made-up word for a staminode. 



Lepii, Greek for a scale, whence Lepidote, leprous; covered with scurfy scales. 



Leptos, Greek for slender; so Leptophyllous, slender-leaved. 



Leukot, Greek for white; whence Leucanllious, white-flowered, &c. 



Liber, the inner bark of Exogenous stems, 140. 



Lid, see operculum. 



Ligneous, or Lignose, woody in texture. 



Ligulate, furnished with a ligule, 93, 



Ligule, Ligula, the strap-shaped corolla in many Composite, 93 ; the membranous 



appendage at the summit of the leaf-sheaths of most Grasses, 57. 

 Limb, the border of a corolla, &c., 89. 

 Limbate, bordered (Latin, LimJms, a border). 

 Line, the twelfth of an inch ; or French lines, the tenth. 

 Linear, narrow and flat, the margins parallel, 52. 



Lineate, marked with parallel lines. Lineolate, marked with minute lines. 

 Lingulate, Linguiform, tongue-shaped. 

 Lip, the principal lobes of a bilabiate corolla or calyx, 92. 

 Literal or Littoral, belonging to the shore. 

 Limd, pale lead-colored. 



Lobe, any projection or division (especially a rounded one) of a leaf, &c. 

 Lobed or Lobate, cut into lobes, 55, 56 ; Lobulate, into small lobes. 

 Locellate, having Locelli, i. e. compartments in a cell : thus an anther-cell is often 



bilocellate. 

 Loealament, same as loculus. 



Locular, relating to the cell or compartment (Loculus) of an ovary, &c. 

 Loculicidal (dehiscence), splitting; down through the back of each cell, 123. 

 Locusta, a name for the spikelet of Grasses. 



Lodicule, one of the scales answering to perianth-leaves in Grass-flowers. 

 Lament, a pod which separates transversely into joints, 122. 

 Lomentaceous, psrtaining to or resembling a loment. 

 Lorate, thong-shaped. 



Lunate, crescent-shaped. Lunulate, diminutive of lunate. 

 Lupuline, like hops. 



Ijusus, Latin for a sport or abnormal variation. 

 Luteohis, yellowish ; diminutive of 

 Luteus, Lalin for yellow. Lutescent, verging to yellow. 

 Lyrate, lyre-shaped ; a pinnatifid leaf of an obo vate or spatnlate outline, the end. ^ 



lobe large and roundish, and the lower lobes small, as in fig. 149. 



Macros, Greek for long, sometimes also used for large; thus Macrophyllous, long 



or large-leaved, &c. 

 Macro^m-e, the large kind of spore, when there are two kinds, 160, 161. 

 Maculate, spotted or blotched. 

 Male (flowers or plants), having stamens but no pistil. 

 Mammose, breast-shaped. 

 Marcescent, withering without falling oil. 

 Marginal, belonging to margin. 



