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GLOSSARY. 
Kidney-shaped. Reniform ; cresceutive, with tlie ends broad and rounded. 
Labiate. Lipped; belonging to the Labiatae. 
Lacerate. Irregularly cleft as if torn. 
Laciniate. Slashed ; cut into narrow pointed lobes. 
Lamella. A thin flat plate or laterally flattened ridge. 
Lanceolate. Shaped like a lance-head, broadest above the base and nar- 
rowed to the apex. 
Lateral. Borne on the side. 
Lax. Loose and slender. 
Leaflet. A single division of a compound leaf. 
Legume. The fruit of the Leguminosae, formed of a simple pistil, and 
usually dehiscent by both sutures. 
Leguminous. Pertaining to a legume or to the Leguminosse. 
Lenticular. Lentil-shaped; of the shape of a double-convex lens. 
Lepidote. Beset with small scurvy scales. 
Ligulate. Furnished with a ligule. 
Ligule. A strap-shaped corolla, as in the ray-flowers of the Composite ; 
a thin scarious projection from the summit of the sheath in 
grasses. 
Liliaceous. Lily-like; belonging to the Liliaceae. 
Limb. The expanded portion of a gamopetalous corolla above the throat ; 
the expanded portion of any petal, or of a leaf. 
Linear. Long and narrow, with parallel margins. 
Lip. Each of the upper and lower divisions of a bilabiate corolla or ca- 
lyx; the peculiar upper petals in Orchids. 
Lobe. Any segment of an organ, especially if rounded. 
Lobed. Divided into or bearing lobes. 
Locular. In composition, having cells. 
Loculicidal. Dehiscent into the cavity of a cell through the dorsal su- 
ture. 
Lunate. Of the shape of a half-moon. 
Lyrate. Pinnatifid with a large and rounded lobe. 
Macrospore. The larger kind of spore in Selaginaceae, etc. 
Marcescent. Withering, but persistent. 
Marginal. Along the edge. 
Marginate. Furnished with a border peculiar in texture or appearance. 
Mealy. Farinaceoas. 
Membranaceous, Membranous. Thin and rather soft and more or less 
translucent. 
Meriearp. One of the achene-like carpels of Umbelliferae. 
-merous. Having parts, as 2-merous, having two parts of each kind. 
Micropyle. The point upon the seed at which was the orifice of the ovule. 
Microspore. The smaller kind of spore in Selaginaceae, etc. 
Midrib. The central or main rib of a leaf. 
Mitriform. Shaped like a mitre or cap. 
