Leaf-like (foliaceous); having a texture and expansion resembling a leaf.
Leafy (foliosus); furnished or abounding with leaves. Legume. A bean, or fruit formed of a single carpel of two valves, with the seeds affixed along the upper suture only.
Leguminous; having the structure of a legume; hearing or producing the fruit called a legume, or bean. • having the form of a lens; orbicular and com pressed, but convex on both faces.
Ligneous; woody; of a firm woody texture.
Lignescent; becoming somewhat woody.
Ligulate; strap-shaped or rihand-shaped; flat and linear. Ligias; the usually membranous appendage at the base of the leaf or summit of the sheath in the grasses.
Limb ; the summit of a rnonosepalous calyx; or the upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla.
Line; the twelfth pert of an inch.
Linear; of a uniform width; long and narrow-with par allel sides.
Linear lanceolate, etc.; partaking of both forms, bnt more of the latter.
Lip; the upper or under division of a labiate flower; ur the lower perianthsegmeut of many orchidaceous flowers.
Lobe; the division or segment of a petal or leaf ; the free portion of a gamopetalous corolla.
Lobate. or lobed; cut or divided into lobes.
Locaticidat dehiscence; when the pericarp opens naturally on the back of a cell (i. e. at the dorsal suture) directly into the cavity.
Loment; an indehiscent two or several-seeded legume, contracted between each seed, and finally separating at the joint-like contractions.
Lom ntaceo us legume, or pod; a pod of two or more seeds,. with a joint-like contraction, or transverse partition, between the seeds.
Longitudinal; lengthwise, parallel with the axis, or in a direction from the base towards the summit or apex. Lunate, or tunulate; having the figure of a new moon. Lutedeent; yellowish.
Lyrate; lyre-shaped, pinnatifid. with the terminal seg ment largest and mostly rounded.
Mamillate; conical, with a rounded apex.
Marcescent ; withering and shriveling on the stem, in stead of falling off.
Margin. The edge or circumference of a leaf or other expansion; also, the thin wing-like border of certain seeds. etc.
Marginal; belonging to, or situated at the margin.
_Marginale, or margined; having a border or edging of a texture or color different from that of the disk; sur rounded by a wing-like expansion, or narrow mem brane.
Medullary rays. Bands or thin plates of cellular tissue, which pass from the pith to the bark in woody stems. Hai/evens ; producing or containing honey. Membranaceous. or membranous; thin, flexible, and often slightly translucent.
Merzcarp ; a name given to the indehiscent carpel of the Umbe l;feru.
Micropyle; the small foramen or opening in the proper coats of a seed, to which the radicle always points.
Mid, ib. The main central nerve of a leaf, apparently a continuation of the petiole.
Monadelphous; having the filaments all united in one set, usually forming a tune.
Monandrous ; having a single stamen.
Mono ; in composition: one or single.
.fifoni/iforna; arranged like, or resembling the beads of a necklace.
Monoclinous; having the stamens and pistils in the same flower.
Monocotyledonous plants. Where the embryo has but a singla liffie or cotyledon.
_Monograph. A description (usually ample and elaborate) of a single thing, or class of things, as of a genus, tribe, or family, etc.
Monogynous; having but one pistil.
onoseioss, or MO nozcous; having stem inate and pistillate flowers distinct, but on the same plant.
Monoeciously, or monoicously polygamous; having perfect and imperfect flowers on the same plant.
Monopetalous ; having but one petal; or more correctly, the petals united into one. (See Gamopetalous.) Monophynous; consisting of a single leaf.
Monosepaloss ; consisting of one sepal, or rather, several sepals united more or less completely. (See Gamosep aloes.) Mucronate ; terminated by a mucro, or small projecting point, usually the prolongation of the midrib, in leaves. Mucronulate ; having a small macro, or terminal project ingpoint.
Multifid ; many-cleft: cut into numerous segments. Multiple. A number containing an •ther number several times without a fraction, or remainder; as uiue is a multiple of three.