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GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 



JugtE : the pairs of partial petioles or 

 leaflets of a pinnately-compound 

 leaf, 164. 



Juglandaceac, 476. 



Jujube, 408. 



Julus : a name for a catkin. 



Julaceons : shaped like or resembling a 

 catkin. 



Juncaecte, 495. 



JuncnirincEe, 487. 



Jun^crmanniacese, 50.'). 



Jnnipcr-berries, 480. 



Jute, 400. 



Keel: see Carina, 254. 



Keeled: furnished with a keel or sharp 



ridge underneath. 

 Kernel of an ovule, 297, or seed, 322. 

 Keii-fndt, 314. 

 Kidiieij-sliaped : seeEeniform; 157, fig. 



245. 

 Kingdom, 362, 15. 

 Kinic acid, 433. 

 Kino, 414. 

 Knot : see Node, 92. 

 Knotted : a cylindrical body swollen into 



knobs at intervals. 

 Kramcriaceaj, 412. 



Lab^llum : the lip, or lower petal of an 



Orchideous flower. 

 Labiata;, 450. 

 Labiate: two-lipped, 278. 

 Labiatiflora;, 436. 

 Lac, 475. 

 Laciniate : slashed ; cut into narrow in- 



cis-ions ; these are called lachike. 

 Lactescent : yielding milky juice. 

 Ldcimose : full of depressions or exca- 

 vations [lacunce]. 

 Lacustrine: belonging to lakes. 

 Ladanum, 394. 



Lcevignte: smooth as if polished. 

 Lagdniform : shaped like a Florence 



flask [Idgena). 

 Lalo, 399. 

 Lamc'llce : thin plates, like the gills of an 



Agaric, 507, &c. 

 Lamellar, or lamellate : composed of flat 



plates. 

 Ldmina (a plate) : the blade of a leaf, 



petal, &c., 145, 276. 

 Lamite, lanose: woolly; i. e. clothed 



witli soft interlaced liairs. 

 Lanceolate: lance-shaped ; fig 239. 

 Laniif/inous : cottony or woolly. 

 Latei'it lluds, 167. 

 Lateral : belonging, or attached to, the 



sides of an organ. 

 Latex: milky or proper juice, 49. 

 Laticifcrons tissue or vessels, 49. 

 Lauraccss, or Laurinca;, 466. 



Lax: loose; the opposite of close or 



crowded. 

 Layerinq, 102. 

 L('af, 133. 



Leaf-arranqement (phyllotaxis), 133. 

 Leaf-bud, 72, 93. 

 Leaf-green, 58. 

 Leaflet : a separate piece or partial blade 



of a compound leaf, 163. 

 Leafstalk, 145, 170. 

 Leaf scars, 94. 

 Leathery: see Foliaceous. 

 Legume: a fruit like a Pea-pod, 315. 

 Legumine#198, 



Leguminosse (Leguminous Plants), 412. 

 Leguminous : relating to legumes. 

 LcmnaccfE, 486. 

 Lemon, 401. 

 Lentibulace«, 445. 

 Lenticels: little spots on the bark, whence 



roots often issue. 

 Lenticular : lens-shaped ; double-convex. 

 Lentiginose: freckled, or dusty-dotted. 

 Lepals : sterile transformed stamens. 

 Lepidote : leprous ; scaly or scurfy, 52. 

 Leucanthous : white-flowered. 

 Liber: the inner fibrous bark, 120, 127. 

 Lid: see Operculum, 502. 

 Lichenes (Lichens), 505. 

 Lichenology : the part of Botany devoted 



to Lichens. 

 Licorice, 414. 



Ligneous : woody in texture. 

 Li'gnine, 36, 195. 

 Lignum-vitse, 405. 



Ligulate: strap-shaped, 255; having a 

 Ligule: a strap-shaped corolla, 255, fig. 



325, d; the appendage between the 



blade and the sheath of the leaf in 



Grasses, 170. 

 Liguliflorse, 436. 

 Liguliflorous : when a head consists of 



ligulate flowers only, as Cichory, 



fig. 323. 

 Liliaceas, 493. 

 Liliaceous: lily-like, 276. 

 Limb {limbus, a border) ; the expanded 



part or border of a corolla, calyx, 



&c., or the lamina or blade of a 



petal, &c., 145, 276. 

 Limbale: bordered. 

 Lime, 401. 

 Limnanthacese, 404. 

 Linacete, 402. 



Line: the twelfth of an inch. (In deci- 

 mal measures, the tenth of an inch. ) 

 Linear : narrow and much longer than 



broad, the two margins parallel ; 



fig. 240. 

 Ltneate : marked with lines. 

 Lineolate : marked with fine or obscure 



lines. 



