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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 lignle ; p. 106. .< 



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



little membranious' appendage at the sunnnit of t the' lea&shea^s of most 



Grasses. • i 



Limb: the blade ot a leaf, petal,>:&c. ; p. 54j 102; -'i.; , . 



Linear: narrow and flat, the margins parallel ; p. &8, 'iigu 85i 

 Lineate: marked with paraU'el lines. Lineotate: mJitJked with minute lioeaw 

 Ltngulate, Lingittform i tongue-shaped. > > : - 



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



peonliar: petal in the. Ovdiis family:^ I . ,i ,,,. 



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

 Locellus (plural locelli)': a small cellj or eompartment of a cell, of an ovary ot 



anther, 

 ixfeu/ar: telating to thecell or eon>>pairtment'('&K;jfeu) ofan ovary, &e> ' 



Loculictdal (dehiscence) : splitting down through the middle of the bafck of each 



cell ; p. 132, fig. 305. .; . - • ■ n. ■■ ■■ .. 



Locttsta: a ttame for the spikelet of Grasses. i 



L6ment: a pod which separates transversely into joints; p. 131, fig. 304. 

 Zomenfifeeaiw.- pertaining to or resembling a tom«nt. <' • 



Ldrate: thohg-shaped. " •> / '■;- •" « 



Lunate : crescent-shaped. LimulMe > diminutive of hmate, 

 Lyrate: lyre-shaped; a, pinnatifid leaf of an obovate or.spatulate ontUae, thdi. 



end-lobe large and roundish, and the lower Ic^eSL small^ias in Winter-. 



Cress and Radish, fig. 59l - 



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



Mdculate : spotted or blotched. 



Mcde (flowers)': having- stamens but no pistil. 



Mdmmose: breastshaped. 



Marcescent : withering without falling off. 



Marginal: belonging to the edge or margin. 



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



Masked: see personate. 



Median: belonging to the middle. ■; ' ' 



Medullary : belonging to, or of the nature of pith (medulla) ; pithy. 



Medullary Bays: the silver-grain of wood ; p. 161, " 



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



Membranaceous or Membranous-: of the texture of membrane ; thin and more or 



less translucent. 

 Mentscoid':' crescent-shaped. - i : . 



M^icarp .-one carpel of the fruit of an Umbelliferous plant. 

 Merismdtic: separating into parts by the formation of partitions withini. 

 Misocarp: the middle part of a pericarp, when that is distinguishable into three 



layers; p. 128. ' 

 Mesophlceum : the middle or green bark. 

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