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_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 narrowed to the apex.
_Lateral._ Belonging to or 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 Leguminosae.
_Lenticular._ Lentil-shaped; of the shape of a double-convex lens.
_Lepidote._ Beset with small scurfy scales.
_Ligulate._ Furnished with a ligule.
_Ligule._ A strap-shaped corolla, as in the ray-flowers of Compositae; a thin scarious projection from the summit of the sheath in Gra.s.ses.
_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 bil.a.b.i.ate corolla or calyx; the peculiar upper petal 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 suture.
_Lunate._ Of the shape of a half-moon or crescent.
_Lunulate._ Diminutive of Lunate.
_Lyrate._ Pinnatifid with a large and rounded terminal lobe, and the lower lobes small.
_Macrospore._ The larger kind of spore in Selaginellaceae, etc.
_Marcescent._ Withering but persistent.
_Marginal._ Along or near the edge.
_Marginate._ Furnished with a border peculiar in texture or appearance.
_Mealy._ Farinaceous.
_Membranaceous, Membranous._ Thin and rather soft and more or less translucent.
_Meniscoid._ Concavo-convex.
_Mericarp._ One of the achene-like carpels of Umbelliferae.
_-merous._ In composition, 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 Selaginellaceae, etc.
_Midrib._ The central or main rib of a leaf.
_Mitriform._ Shaped like a mitre or cap.
_Monadelphous_ (stamens). United by their filaments into a tube or column.
_Moniliform._ Resembling a string of beads; cylindrical with contractions at intervals.
_Monocotyledonous._ Having but one cotyledon.
_Moncious._ With stamens and pistils in separate flowers on the same plant.
_Mucilaginous._ Slimy; containing mucilage.
_Mucro._ A short and small abrupt tip.
_Mucronate._ Tipped with a mucro.
_Multifid._ Cleft into many lobes or segments.
_Muricate._ Rough with short hard points.
_Muriculate._ Very finely muricate.
_Naked._ Bare; without the usual covering or appendages.
_Nectary._ Any place or organ where nectar is secreted.
_Nectariferous._ Producing nectar.
