A Botanical Di£fionary. 1 1 
a downy fubftance flicking to them, are termed La- 
nuginous, as the Thiftle, ^ 
Loculamenta are the cells in the fruit of plants, 
where the feeds are lodged, which are divided by 
fmall partitions. 
Locufta^ is the outer covering of the grain of 
Corn next to the chaff. 
Marginatus^ bordered ; the feeds of plants 
which have a thin leafy border round them, are faid 
to be Marginated, as thofe of the Stock-Gilliflower, 
Honefly, 
Mono cotyle done are plants that have but one feed- 
leaf. 
Mcnopyreneus^ fuch fruit as contains in it one ker- 
nel or feed only. 
Mucro^ a fharp Point ; thofe leaves, or fruits of 
plants, which terminate in a fharp point, are term- 
ed Mucronated. 
Nucleus^ a Kernel, is that part of fruit which is 
inclofed in a hard fhell, as the kernel of the Plumb, 
Cherry, &c. 
Pfftculum^ a Shell, is the hard flony covering of 
a feed. 
Ovary ^ is the rudiment of fruit, fo properly the 
female organ of generation. 
Fanicula^ a Panicle, is a flalk diffufed into feve- 
ral pedicles, fuflaining flowers or fruit, as in the 
Oat, ^c. 
Pappus^ Dov/n. 
Parafitical Plants^ are fuch as grow upon the ffocks 
of others, as MiflTeltoe, Ivy, 
Pediculus^ a Pedicle, is that part of a flalk 
^ which immediately fuftains a leaf, flower, or fruit. 
Petala^ Petals, the tender, flne-colour’d leaves, 
which are generally the mofl confpicuous parts of a 
flower ; fo thofe flowers, v/hich confifl of one leaf, 
are called Monopetalous Flowers j thofe of two 
leaves 
