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L^pidote : leprous ; covered with scurfy scales. 



Liber: the inner, fibrous bark of Exogenous plants; p. 152. 



Ligneous, or Lignose : woody in texture. 



Ligulate: furnished with a ligule; p. 106. 



Ligule: the strap-shaped corolla in many Compositce, p. 106, fig, 220; the 



little membranous appendiige at the summit of the leaf-slieatbs of most 



Grasses. 

 Limb: the blade ot a leaf, petal, &c. ; p. .54, 102. 

 Linear: narrow and flat, the margins parallel ; p. 58, fig. 85. 

 Liiieate : marked with parallel lines. Lineolate : marked with minute lines. 

 Lingtdate, Linguiform: tongue-shaped. 

 Lip: the principal lobes of a bilabiate corolla or calyx, p. 105 ; the odd and 



peculiar petal in the Orchis Family. 

 Lohe: any pfojection or division (especially a rounded one) of a leaf, &c. 

 LoceRus (plural locelli) : a small cell, or compartment of a cell, of an ovary or 



anther. 

 Ldcular : relating to the cell or compartment (loculus) of an ovaiy, &c. 

 Loculicidal (dehiscence) : splitting down through the middle of the back of each 



cell ; p. 132, fig 305. 

 Locusta : a name for the spikelet of Grasses. 



Liment: a pod which separates transversely into joints; p. 131, fig. 304. 

 Lomentdceous : pertaining to or resembling a loment. 

 Ldrate: thong-shaped. 



Lunate: crescent-shaped. Ltmulaie: diminutive of /unate. 

 Lyraie : lyre-shaped ; a pinnatifid leaf of an obovate or spatulate outline, the 



end-lobe large and roundish, and the lower lobes small, as in Winter- 

 Cress and Badish, fig. 59. 



Mace: the aril of the Nutmeg; p. 135. 



Maculate : spotted or blotched. 



Male (flowers) : having stamens but no pistil. 



Mdmmose : breast-shaped. 



Marcesceni : withering without falling off. 



Marginal: belonging to the edge or margin. 



Marginate : margined, with an edge difffcrent from the rest. 



Masked: see personate. • 



Median : belonging to the middle. ' 



Medullar!/ : belonging to, or of the nature of pith (medulla) ; pithy. 



Medutlarg Rays: the silver-grain of wopd; p. 151. 



Medullary Sheath: a set of ducts just around the pitli; p. 151. 



Membranaceous or Me'mbranous : of the texture of membrane ; thin and more or 



less translucent., 

 Meniscoid : crescent-shaped. 



Miricarp : one cai-pel of the fruit of an Umbelliferous plant. 

 Merismatic: separating into parts by the formation of partitions within. 

 M^socarp: the middle part of a pericarp, when that is distinguishable into threa 



layers ; p. 1 28. 

 Mesophlceam : the middle or green bark. 

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