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Induplicate. With margins folded inward. 
Indusium. In ferns, the scale-like cover of the fruit spot. 
Inferior. Lower; below the corolla. 
Inflexed. Bent or turned abruptly inward, 
Inflorescence. The flowering portion of a plant. 
Introrse. Turned inward toward the axis. . 
Involucre. A circle or circles of scales, bracts or leaves, 
distinct or united, surrounding a flower or flower-cluster. 
Involute. Rolled inward. 
Labellum. A lip, as in orchids. 
Labiate. Lipped; having an irregular calyx or corolla 
unequally divided into two lips. 
Laciniate. Cut into narrow slender teeth or lobes. 
Lactescent. Yielding milky juice. 
Lamina. The blade or dilated part of a leaf. 
Lanceolate. Shaped like a lance-head. 
Legume. A 1-celled capsule opening by two valves, as 
the pea. 
Lenticular. Lens, or lentil-shaped. 
Lignescent. Woody; becoming woody. 
Ligule. A tongue or strap-shaped body, as the corolla of 
ray-flowers in Composite. 
Lobate. Divided into lobes. 
Loculicidal. Dehiscence of the cells of a capsule through 
the dorsal suture. 
Lomentum. Loment. A legume jointed, and usually con- 
stricted between the seeds. . 
Macro. Large or long. 
Marcescent. Withering and persistent. 
Marginate. Furnished with a border. 
Membranaceous. Thin and translucent. 
Mericarp. Division of schizocarp. 
-merous. In parts. 
Micro. Small. 
Monadelphia. Stamens united by their filaments into one 
set. 
