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Legumen, pidse, a pericarpium of two valves, in which the seeds 



are fix^d along one suture only. 

 Lenticula jsScabrities, a species of glandular scabrities, in the 



form of lentils. 

 Leprosus. spotted as a leper, exemplified in Lichen. 

 Levis Caulis, smooth, having an even surface. 

 Liber, the inner rind or bark of a plant. 

 X^ignosus Caulis, a woody stem. 

 Lignum, wood. 



Ligulatus Flos, when the petals, tubulated at the base, are plane 



linear towards the middle, and widest at the extremity, in 



form of a bandage. 

 LiLiACEiE, like a lily, an order of plants in the Fragmenta Me- 



thodi Naturalis of Linnaeus. 

 Limbus, a border, the upper expanded part of a monopetalous 



flower. 



Line a, a line, the second degree in the Linnaean Scale for mea- 

 suring plants, the twelfth part of an inch. 



Lineare Folium, a narrow leaf, whose opposite margins are al- 

 most parallel, as in Pinus. 



Lineatum Folium, leaves whose superficies are marked with pa- 

 rallel lines, running lengthways. 



Lingulatum Folium, a leaf shaped like a tongue. 



Lobatum Folium, when leaves are divided to the middle into 

 parts that stand wide from each other, and have their 

 margins convex. 



Loculamentum, a cell, the divisions of that species or pericarpi- 

 um, called aCAPsuLA. 



Locus Foliorum, the particular part of the pla&t to which the 

 leaf is affixed. 



LoMENTACEiE, bean meal, an order of plants in the Fragmenta 



Methodi Naturalis of Linnaeus. 

 Longiusculus, longish. 



Longum Perianthium, when the tube of the calyx is equal in 



length to that of the corolla?. 

 Lucidum Folium, clear, shining. 



Lunatum Folium, moon-shaped leaves, when they are roufid ant* 

 hollowed at the base like a half moon. 



