Lamella. A thin plate or scale.
Lamellar, Lamellate. Composed of thin plates, or furnished with them.
Lamina. The blade or dilated portion of a leaf.
Lanate. Clothed with woolly hairs.
Lanceolate. Shaped Uke a lance-head; tapering upwards from a narrow ovate base.
Lanuginous. Clothed with long woolly or cottony hairs.
Lateral. At the side; fixed on or near the side.
Lax. Loose, distant.
Legume. The seed-vessel of Leguminosæ; a one-celled and two-valved capsule, of very various form.
Leguminous. Pertaining to or bearing legumes; belonging to the order Leguminosæ.
Lenticel. Lenticular corky spots on young bark, corresponding to epidermal stomata.
Lenticular. Lens-shaped.
Lentiginous. Covered with minute dots or freckles.
Lepidote. Covered with small scurfy scales.
Ligule. (1.) A strap-shaped body, as the limb of the corolla in the florets of Compositæ. (2.) The thin scarious appendage at the junction of the leaf-blade with the sheath in grasses.
Ligulate. Furnished with a ligule; strap-shaped.
Limb. (1.) The expanded and usually spreading part of a gamopetalous corolla, as distinct from the tube. (2.) The lamina of a petal or leaf.
Linear. Narrow and elongated, with parallel margins.
Lineate. Marked with lines.
Lineolate. Marked with fine lines.
Linguiform, Lingulate. Tongue-shaped.
Lip. (1.) Either of the two divisions of a bilabiate corolla or calyx. (2.) The labellum of orchids.
Littoral. Growing near the sea-shore.
Lobe. Any division of a leaf, corolla, &c., especially if rounded.
Lobe, Lobate. Divided into or bearing lobes.
Lobule. A small lobe.
Lobulate. Having small lobes.
Locellate. Divided into secondary cells or compartments.
Loculicidal. When the cells of a capsule open along the back between the septa, or by the dorsal suture.
Lodicule. A name apphed to the minute hyaline scales just outside the stamens in the flowers of grasses.
Lorate. Strap-shaped; thong-shaped.
Lucid. Having a shining surface.
Lunate. Half-moon shaped.
Lurid. Of a dingy brown or yellow.
Lutescent. Yellowish.
Lyrate. Lyre-shaped; pinnatifid with the terminal lobe large and rounded, the lower lobes small.
Macrosporangium. A sporangium containing macrospores.
Macrospore. The larger kind of spore in vascular cryptogams.
Maculate. Spotted or blotched.
Male. A plant or flower which possesses stamens.
Mammilla. A nipple or teat-shaped projection.
Mammillate. Having nipple-shaped projections.
Marcescent. Withering and persistent.
Marginal. Placed upon or belonging to the edge or margin.
Marginate, Margined. Furnished with an edge or border of a different character to the rest of the organ.
