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1122 A thin plate or scale.

Composed of thin plates, or furnished with them.

The blade or dilated portion of a leaf.

Clothed with woolly hairs.

Shaped Uke a lance-head; tapering upwards from a narrow ovate base.

Clothed with long woolly or cottony hairs.

At the side; fixed on or near the side.

Loose, distant.

The seed-vessel of Leguminosæ; a one-celled and two-valved capsule, of very various form.

Pertaining to or bearing legumes; belonging to the order Leguminosæ.

Lenticular corky spots on young bark, corresponding to epidermal stomata.

Lens-shaped.

Covered with minute dots or freckles.

Covered with small scurfy scales.

(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.

Furnished with a ligule; strap-shaped.

(1.) The expanded and usually spreading part of a gamopetalous corolla, as distinct from the tube. (2.) The lamina of a petal or leaf.

Narrow and elongated, with parallel margins.

Marked with lines.

Marked with fine lines.

Tongue-shaped.

(1.) Either of the two divisions of a bilabiate corolla or calyx. (2.) The labellum of orchids.

Growing near the sea-shore.

Any division of a leaf, corolla, &c., especially if rounded.

Divided into or bearing lobes.

A small lobe.

Having small lobes.

Divided into secondary cells or compartments.

When the cells of a capsule open along the back between the septa, or by the dorsal suture.

A name apphed to the minute hyaline scales just outside the stamens in the flowers of grasses.

Strap-shaped; thong-shaped.

Having a shining surface.

Half-moon shaped.

Of a dingy brown or yellow.

Yellowish.

Lyre-shaped; pinnatifid with the terminal lobe large and rounded, the lower lobes small.

A sporangium containing macrospores.

The larger kind of spore in vascular cryptogams.

Spotted or blotched.

A plant or flower which possesses stamens.

A nipple or teat-shaped projection.

Having nipple-shaped projections.

Withering and persistent.

Placed upon or belonging to the edge or margin.

Furnished with an edge or border of a different character to the rest of the organ.