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LADY'S NIGHTCAP. Calystegia sepium. 



LADY'S SEAL. Convallaria Polygona- 

 tum. 



LADY'S SLIPPER. Cypripedium Calceo- 

 lus. 



SMOCK. Cardamine pratensis. 

 THIMBLE. Campanula rotun- 



THISTLE. Cardaus Marianus. 

 TRACES or TRESSES. Neottia 



LADY'S 

 LADY'S 



difola. 



LADY'S 



. LADY'S 

 spiralis. 



LADY'S THUMB. An American name 

 for Polygonum Persicaria. 



LADLEWOOD. A Cape name for the 

 wood of C as sine Colpoon. 



L^LIA. A beautiful genus of orchids, 

 closely related to Cattleya, from which in- 

 deed it differs in little if anything, besides 

 having eight pollen-masses instead of four. 

 They are epiphytes, furnished with pseudo- 

 bulbs which are often elongated clavate and 

 stem-like, thick hard leaves, and terminal 

 scapes of few or many flowers, which are 

 for the most part extremely showy. L. 

 purpurata and its allies, L. superbiens, L. 

 majalis, and L. prazstans, are some of the 

 finest of the species, which are all South 

 American, and come chiefly from Brazil 

 and Mexico. [T. M.] 



LiELIOPSIS. The name of a few epi- 

 phytal orchids of the West Indies and South 

 America. They agree with Cattleya in all 

 respects except that the flowers are mem- 

 branaceous, and the veins of the lip beard- 

 ed. L. doming ensis, the typical species, is 

 a St. Domingo plant, with two-leaved 

 pseudobulbs, and a slender terminal scape, 

 bearing at the end a few showy flowers, of 

 which the sepals and petals are rather erect 

 than spreading, and the large lip is rolled 

 up round the column, and two-lobed with 

 wavy toothed recurved divisions. [T. M.] 



L.ETIA. A genus of Flacourtiacea? con- 

 sisting of small trees inhabiting the woods 

 of tropical America, with dotted or dot- 

 less, usually entire and leathery leaves; 

 hermaphrodite or polygamous flowers, ar- 

 ranged in racemes ; a highly imbricate 

 calyx ; either no corolla or one composed 

 of five petals, yellow or white; an inde- 

 finite number of stamens, with very short 

 anthers ; and an ovate or three-cornered 

 berry. L. apetala, of the Magdalena river, 

 yields a balsamic resin which becomes 

 white in contact with the air, like Sanda- 

 rach. [B. S.] 



L.EYIGATE. Having the appearance of 

 being polished, as many seeds. 



L.EVIS. Free from asperities or hairs, 

 or any sort of uuevenness. 



LAFOEXSTA. A genus of South American 

 Lythracece, consisting of trees or shrubs, 

 with opposite leaves, and flowers either 

 solitary in the axils or in terminal racemes 

 or panicles ; they are large, white or pale 

 red, with a bibracteolate eight to ten- 



toothed calyx, ten to twelve petals, and 

 twenty to twenty-four stamens ; and are 

 succeeded by an incompletely two-celled 

 capsule. [T. M.] 



LAGAROSIPHON. A genus of aquatic 

 herbs, inhabiting tropical rivers and lakes, 

 and belonging to Hydrocharidacece. It has 

 smooth parallel-veined leaves, and flowers 

 enclosed in a spathe, and having three se- 

 pals and three petals, an indefinite number 

 of stamens, and a succulent fruit. [B. S.] 



LAGASCEA. A genus of Composites of 

 the tribe Vernoniacece, distinguished by 

 the doubly compound flower-heads, each 

 separate floret being enclosed in a four or 

 five-toothed tubular involucre, several of 

 these partial involucres being collected in 

 a general head, surrounded by imbricated 

 leafy bracts. Each floret has a very slender 

 tubular corolla, and a compressed four- 

 angled achene crowned by a very short 

 entire or toothed membranous pappus. 

 There are about seven species, natives of 

 Mexico, all coarse weedy herbs of little in- 

 terest. 



LAGENARIA. A genus of Cucurbitacea?, 

 consisting of annual pubescent musky 

 plants, with alternate heart-shaped leaves, 

 tendrils, clustered single-flowered axillary 

 flower-stalks, and white monoecious flow- 

 ers ; the males with a hell-shaped five- 



Lagenaria vulgaris. 



parted calyx, five spreading petals, and 

 five triadelphous stamens ; and thefemales 

 with a three-celled inferior ovary, becom- 

 ing, when mature, a woody pepo. They are 

 natives of the warm parts of Asia and 

 Africa. [J. H. B.] 



LAGENIFORM. Shaped like a Florence 

 flask. 



LAGENOCARPUS. The generic name 

 of plants belonging to the order of heath- 

 worts; distinguished by having the corolla 

 small, nearly globose, its border slightly 

 five-cleft, the seed-vessel flagon-shaped and 

 one-celled. The species are heath-like 

 shrubs, natives of the Cape, with small 

 leaves in whorls of three together, and 

 small solitary flowers. The name indicates 

 the flagon-like shape of the fruit. [G. D.J 



LAGENOPHORA. A genus of Composite 



