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LATIIYRUS. 16—10. ( Lcguminosce .) [From lathuros, leguminous.] 
odora'bus, (sweet pea, J. #.) peduncles 2-flowered; tendril with ovate-oblong 
leafets ; legumes hirsute. Ex. 
latifo'lius, (everlasting pea, Au. 7|_.) peduncles many-flowered ; tendril with 
2 lance-ovate leaves; membranaceous between joints. Ex. 
pains"Lris , (w-p. Ju. 7f.) stem smooth, winged, weak; leafets in 3 pairs, ob¬ 
long, mucronate ; stipules acute, semi-sagittate; peduncles 3-5-flowered, a 
little longer than the leaves; legume compressed. Low grounds. 
myrbifo'lius , flowers smaller than the preceding, purple and rose-coloured; 
leafets 4 , reticulate, scabrous on the margin; peduncles longer than the 
leaves, 3-4-dowered. Salt marshes. 
veno'sus , numerous leafets, veiny; peduncles shorter than the leaves, 4-5- 
flow ered. 
LAURUS. 9—1. ( Lauri .) [From laus, praise, because it was used to crown the heads of dis¬ 
tinguished persons.] 
ben"zoin. (spice bush, fever bush, g. y. Ap. T 7 .) leaves wedge-obovate, whi¬ 
tish, sub-pubescent beneath; flowers in clustered umbels; buds and pedicels 
glabrous. 4-10 f, 
sas"safras, (sassafras-tree, y. M. F^.) leaves entire and lobed on the same 
plant.; flowers mostly dioecious. 10-25 f. 
carolin"ensis , leaves perennial, oval, lanceolate, coriaceous, glaucous beneath, 
peduncles simple, terminated with a few-flowered fascicle ; outer segments 
of the calyx half as long as the inner. A large shrub. Flowers polyga¬ 
mous, in small clusters, pale yellow ; drupe dark blue. From Georgia to 
Delaware. 
perse'a, alligator pear of the West Indies, an eatable fruit. 
cinnamo'num, the inner bark affords the cinnamon of commerce. Indies. 
no'bilis, leaves veined, lanceolate and perennial; flowers 4 cleft. This is the 
poet’s laurel, the fabled favourite of Apollo. It is a handsome evergreen 
shrub ; berries and leaves fragrant. Native of Italy. 
camphor a 1 tus, (camphor-tree, Tp.) leaves about 3-nerved, lance-ovate; panicle 
spreading. From Japan. 
LAVANDULA- 13—1. ( Labia f ce ) [From lavo , to wash, so called, because,-on account of its 
perfume, it was used in baths.] 
spica'ta, (lavender, Au. 2].) leaves sessile, lance-linear, with revolute mar¬ 
gins; spike interruptedly naked. Ex. 
LAVATERA. 15—13. ( Malvaceae .) [In honour of Lavater, a celebrated writer on physiognomy, j 
trimen"sis, (red lavatera,) lower leaves angled ; upper ones 3-lobed, with the 
middle lobe longest; peduncles solitary. 2 f. Introduced. 
arbo'rea, (tree-mallows, S. Jb) stem woody; leaves downy,plaited, 7-angled; 
flowers large, purplish, rose-colour, darker on the base, on aggregated, ax¬ 
illary stalks. Ex. 
LEDUM. 10—1. ( Ericece .) [From the ledon of the ancient Greeks, supposed to have been a 
species of Cistus.] 
latifoflium , (Labrador tea, w. r. J. 2f.) leaves oblong, replicate at the margin, 
ferruginous, tomentose beneath; stamens 5, as long as the corolla. Ever¬ 
green shrub, irregularly branched, woolly ; flowers in long, terminal co¬ 
rymbs. 
pains"tre, leaves linear, revolute on the margin ; stamens 10 , longer than the 
corolla. A shrub smaller than the preceding, with narrower leaves. 
LEERSIA. 3—2. ( Graminece .) [In honour of Leers, who wrote on botany in 1775.] 
virgin"ica, (white grass, Ju. y. If.) panicle simple; the lower branches diffuse; 
flowers appressed, monandrous, sparingly ciliate on the keel. 2-4 f. 
LEIOPHYLLUM. 10—1. ( Ericece .) [From Itios, smooth, and phullon, leaf.] 
buxifoWum, (sand myrtle, w. f>.) leaves small, lance-oval, entire, glabrous, 
lucid, revolute at the margin ; corymbs terminal. G 18 i. 
LEMNA. 19— 2. (Naides .) [From lemo, deprived; of bark.] 
trisuV'ca, (duck’s meat, <v), f.) fronds thin, elliptic-lanceolate, caudate at one 
extremity, at the other serrate ; root a single fibre. Young fronds produc¬ 
ed from lateral clefts, of the same shape as the parent plant, and again pro¬ 
liferous before they are detached. Flowers very minute. Water. 
