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abortive, enclosed in the scales of the 

 receptacle. 



LINDLEYA mespiloides is the sole re- 

 presentative of a genus named by Hum- 

 boldt and Kunth in honour of one of the 

 editors of the present work. It is a small | 

 evergreen tree or large shrub, found wild 

 in the mountain regions of Mexico, and 

 belongs to the Quillajee group of Rosacea?, ' 

 separated from the other groups of the 

 order by its follicular or capsular fruits, , 

 and winged seeds. Amongst these Lind- 

 leva is distinguished by its five ovaries ' 

 being consolidated, but having the styles - 

 distinct ; and by its fruit being a hard | 

 bony five-celled and five-angled capsule, 

 which splits open when ripe down the 

 centre of the cells, each of which contains 

 a couple of thin-winged seeds. It has ] 

 simple crenulate shining leaves of an ob- 

 long-acute form, and solitary large white 

 sweet-scented flowers, borne on the tips of 

 its branchlets. [A. S.] j 



LINDSJEA. A rather extensive genus 

 of polypodiaceous ferns, typical of the sec- | 

 tion Linelseeeee, a group in which the trans- 

 verse more or less elongated sori are in- 

 dusiate, with the indusium attached along 

 the inner, and opening along the outer 

 margin, the reverse of what occurs in 

 Pterls. Among these, Lindscea is known by 

 its veins being free. The fronds are very 

 variable in character, some being simple, 

 others pinnate, and others bipinnate, gene- 

 rally with a more or less adiantoid aspect. 

 TheV are found in the tropics both of the 

 Old and New World. [T. M.] 



LINE {adj. LINEALIS). The twelfth 

 part of an inch. 



LIHEA TRANS VERSALIS. The ostio- 

 lum of certain fungals. 



LINEAR. Narrow, short, with the two 

 margins parallel ; as the leaf of the yew- 

 tree. 



LINEATE. Lined ; marked by fine pa- 

 rallel lines. 



LING. C'alluna vulgaris ; also a Chinese 

 name for Treipa bicornis. 



LINGUA CERYINA. Scolopendrium. — ' 

 DE FIN. Casearia lingua. 



LINGTIFORIL Having the form of a 

 tongue. 



LINNZEA This genus was so named by 

 Gronovius in honour of the great Swedish 

 naturalist Linnasus, who himself selected 

 it as the most appropriate plant to bear his 

 name, he having first pointed out its true 

 character, besides which it was also an 

 especial favourite with him, and common 

 in his own native country. There is only 

 one species, L. borealis, an extremely ele- 

 gant little creeping evergreen plant, with 

 slender branches a foot or more in length 

 trailing along the ground, bearing small 

 opposite broadly ovate or obovate leaves 

 slightly toothed at the top, and sending i 

 up erect thread-like flower-stalks, which 

 fork near the top and bear two gracefully I 



drooping highly fragrant bell-like flowers, 

 of a pale pink colour or nearly white, and 

 almost half an inch in length. These very 

 beautiful little flowers have a calyx with a 

 border of five teeth ; a bell-shaped corolla 

 narrow at its base but spreading upwards 

 and dividing into five nearly equal lobes; 

 four stamens, two of which are shorter 

 than the other two ; and a globular hairy 

 three-celled ovary, which ripens into a dry 

 one-seeded fruit. It grows almost exclu- 

 sively in woods, and is widely dispersed 

 over Northern Europe and Asia, and North 

 America, occurring also in the mountains 

 of Central Europe. In Britain it is found 

 only in the east of Scotland, and in one 

 place in Northumberland. According to 

 Dr. Clarke, its scent is so powerful, espe- 

 cially at night, that it maybe discovered at 

 a considerable distance. The Laplanders 

 use a decoction of its flowers as a remedy 

 in rheumatic complaints, and the Norwe- 

 gians consider a decoction of the entire 

 plant good against the itch. It belongs to 

 the Caprifoiiacece. [A. S.] 



LINOSTIGMA. A genus proposed by 

 Klotzsch for a species of Viviania, in which 

 the parts of the flower are reduced to four, 

 those of the pistil to two, and the styles 

 are united nearly to the middle. Like the 

 other species of Viviania, it is a native of 

 extra-tropical South America. 



LINOSTOMA. A genus of Indian shrubs 

 belonging to the TJiymelacece. The leaves 

 are opposite, closely feather-veined, lea- [ 

 thery, and shining ; the flowers perfect, in I 

 terminal contracted racemes, the stalks of j 

 which are jointed in the middle. The pe- 

 rianth is tubular, coloured, and has ten | 

 petaloid scales placed in pairs opposite the [ 

 five segments of its limb. The fruit is dry, | 

 not surrounded by any disk, nor, as hap- j 

 pens in some adjacent genera, by the base 

 of the perianth. [M. T. M.] 



LINOSYRIS. A genus of Composites of 

 the tribe Asteroideee, consisting of erect 

 herbs or undershrubs with alternate nar- 

 row crowded leaves and yellow flower- 

 heads at the ends of the branches, forming 

 a flat terminal corymb. The involucral 

 bracts are not numerous, imbricated, the 

 outer ones loose, passing into the leaves ; 

 the florets are all tubular and hermaphro- 

 dite, on a flat honeycombed receptacle 

 without scales. The achenes are oblong, 

 compressed, silky, with a pappus of simple 

 bristles in a double row. There are about 

 a dozen species, natives of Europe, tem- 

 perate Asia, Northern Africa, or North 

 America, among which L. vulgaris is not 

 uncommon in hot exposed stony places in 

 Central and Southern Europe. 



LINSEED. The seed of Flax, Lbmm 

 usitatissimum. 



LINUM. A genus which gives its name 

 to the Linacece, consisting of herbs and 

 small shrubs, natives of all the temperate 

 regions of the globe, but rare in the tro- 

 pics. The leaves are alternate, opposite, or 

 even whorled ; and the flowers, which are 



