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; bearing or producing the fruit called a legume, or bean. Lenticular; having the form of a lens; orhicular and com pressed, but convex on both faces.
Ligneous; woody; of a firm woody texture.
Ligneseent; becoming somewhat woody.
Lig ulate; strap-shaped or riband-shaped; flat and Ligule; the usually membranous appendage at the base of the leaf or summit of the sheath in the grasses.
Limb ; the summit of a monosepalous calyx; or the upper spreading part of a monopctalous corolla.
Line; the twelfth part of an inch.
Linear; of a uniform width ; long and narrow with par allel sides.
Linear lanceolate, etc.; partaking of both forme, but more of the latter.
Lip; the upper or under division of a labiate flower, or the lower periantheegment 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.
Locuticidal dehiscence; when the pericarp opens naturally on the back of a cell (1. e. at the dorsal suture) directly into the cavity.
Loment; indehiscent two or several-seeded legume, contracted between each seed, and finally separating at the joint-like contractions.
Lomentaceous 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 /unu/ate; having the figure of a new moon. Lutescent; yellowish.
Lyrate; lyre-shaped, pinnatifid, with the terminal seg ment largest and mostly rounded.
alfamiaate; 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 other expansion; also, the thin wing-like border o' -rtais seeds, etc.
Marginal,' belonging to, or situated at the marg Marginate, 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 ftom the pith to the bark in woody stems. Melliferous ; producing or containing honey. Membranaceous, or membranous; thin, flexible, and often slightly translucent.
Merzcarp a name given to the indehiacent carpel of the Umbe Wens.
Micropyle; the small foramen or opening in the proper coats of a seed, to which the radicle always points. Midrib. The main central nerve of a leaf, apparently a continuation of the petiole.
Honadelphous; having the filaments all united in one set, usually forming a tube.
Monandrous ; having a single stamen.
in composition; one or single.
Afoniliforen; arranged like, or resembling the beads of a necklace.
Monodinous; having the stamens and pistils in the same flower.
Monocotyledonous plants. Where the embryo has but a single lobe or cotyledon.
Monograph. A description (nenally ample and elaborate) of a single thing, or class of things, ae of a genus, tribe, or family, etc.
Monogynous; having but one pistil.
Moncecio us, or monozcous; having etaminate and pistillate flowers distinct. but on the same plant.
Moneeciously, or tnonoicously 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.) Monophyllaits; consisting of a single leaf.
Monosepaious; consisting of one sepal, or rather, several aepala united more or fees completely. (See Gamosep elem.) Mucronate ; terminated by a mucro, or small projecting point, usually the prolongation of the midrib, in leaves. Nueronnaate; having a small mucre, or terminal project ingpoint.
Multifid many-cleft; cut into numerous segments. Multiple. A number containing another number several times without a fraction, or remainder; as nine is a multiple of three.
Multiple fruits. When there is a combination of several flowers into one aggregate mass, as in the pine-apple, mulherry, etc.