lituratus 
lowered 
forked, with the points turned a 
little outward. 
fitura’tus t (litura, a smearing), when 
spots are formed by an abrasion of 
the surface. 
li'vens, liv’id, /i’vidus (Lat.), pale 
lead colour. 
liv’er-col’oured = HEPATICUS. 
Liverworts, Hepaticae. 
Lobe, Lo’bus (hoBds, the lower part of 
the ear), any division of an organ 
or specially rounded division ; 
Mid’dle ~, a small conical or tongue- 
shaped growth arising from be- 
tween the two side-lobes of a 
Fern-prothallus ; lo’bate, Joba’tus, 
divided into or bearing lobes; 
Lo’belet, a small lobe; Lob’iolus, 
a small lobe into which somo 
Lichen-thalli are divided ; Lob’ule, 
(1) a small lobe, a lobulet; (2) 
Spruce’s word for the minor lobe 
of the leaf of Hepaticae, the 
auricle of Nees and others ; lob’u- 
late, lobula’tus, having small lobes ; 
Lob’ulus, a small lobe. 
Locality (localitas, a place), the 
approximate geographic position of 
an individual specimen. 
locel'late, Jocella‘tus, dividing into 
LocrL1i; Locel’lus (dim. of Dias, 
a little compartment), a secondary 
compartment, as a primitive pollen- 
sac, which, by the destruction of a 
septum, unites with an adjoining 
locellus to form an _ anther- 
loculus; Loc’wlament, Loculamen’- 
tum (Lat. a case or box); (1) 
=Locutts of a carpel; (2) ‘‘ the 
perithecium of certain Fungals” 
(Lindley) ; loc’ular, locula'ris, hav- 
ing cavities or Loculi, denoted 
further by the addition of uni-, bi-, 
tri-, etc., for one-, two-, three- 
ete., celled; locula’tus, divided 
into cavities ; loculici’dal (caedo, I 
cut), the cavity of a pericarp de- 
hiscent by the back, the dorsal 
suture; loc’ulose, Joculo’sus, loc’- 
ulous, divided internally into cells, 
partitioned ; Loc’ulus, (1) the cavity 
of an ovary or anther ; (2) the peri- 
derm of certain Fungals (Lindley). 
Locus’ta (Lat. crayfish or locust), the 
spikelet in grasses. 
Lod‘icule, Lodicw'la (Lat. a small 
coverlet), a small scale outside 
the stamens in the flower of 
grasses; glumella. 
Loliophyll, Etard’s name for chlo- 
rophyll from Lolwm and other 
grasses. 
lomenta’ceous, -ceus (lomentum, bean- 
meal), bearing or resembling Lo- 
ments; Lo’ment, Lomen'tum, a 
legume which is contracted be- 
tween the seeds, falling apart at 
the constrictions when mature into 
one-seeded joints. 
Longistamin’eae (Zongus, long + Sta- 
MEN), Delpino’s term for flowers 
with long stamens which are wind- 
fertilised. 
Longitu’dinal Sys’tem, an old term 
for fibro-vascular system (Crozier). 
Longitu’do (Lat. length), in the direc- 
tion of growth, 
longis’simus (Lat.), very long. 
longitudinaliter, longitudina’lis 
(Lat.), in the direction of the 
length. 
loose, (1) as applied to inflorescence, 
lax, as a panicle; (2) hardly co- 
herent, as loose tissue. 
lophios’tomate (ogra, a crest, ordua, 
a mouth), having crested apertures 
or openings. 
lor’ate, lora’tus (lorum, a thong), 
strap-shaped, ligulate. 
Lori’ca (Lat. a leather corslet), (1) 
the entire silicious covering of 
the frustule in Diatoms; (2) for- 
merly used for the Tzsta ; lor’icate, 
[clothed in mail] ‘‘equally narrow 
throughout” (Braithwaite), is pro- 
bably a slip for LORATE. 
Lo’rulum (Lat. dim. of lorum, a 
thong), the filamentous and branch- 
ed thallus of some Lichens. 
low, small as compared to its allies ; 
~ Yeast, that which is found at 
the bottom of a fermenting liquid: 
Germ. ‘“‘Unterhefe”; lowered, used 
when the lip of a bilabiate corolla 
is inclined at about a right angle to 
the tube. 
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