Chapter L: Lacépède, 1687

Lago Maggiore, 573

Lagoons. See _Atolls_

Lake, Big Soda, 581
Drummond, 631
dwellers, 1093-94
of Geneva, 574, 575, 576
Great Salt, of Utah, 579-81, 587
Superior, 573, 576
Tchad, 628

Lakes, 573-88, 620-21, 628

Lalande, 431

Land, distribution of, 676-79

“Land of Grass,” the, 638

Landes, Les, 644-45

Laplace, 310, 433, 434, 787

Laplanders, 1672

Lassell, 430, 432

Latreille, 1403, 1414, 1415

Lava, 540-41, 552, 554-59

Laval, Pyrard de, 690

Leaf, 863-64, 1222

Leaves, 863, 972-75, 1016-27, 1042-44, 1221
falling, 1126
foliage, 865-66

Le Monnier, 427

Lemurs, 1529

Leo, sickle in, 125, 127

Leonids, 278-81

Lepidodendra, 468, 960-61, 1230

Lepidoptera, 1421

Lepidosirens, 1345, 1353-55

Le Roi, 813

Lespès, M., 1410, 1411

Leuckart, 1419

Leverrier, 303, 348, 431

Ley, Clement, 821, 823

Lianes, 924-25, 928, 953

Libra, 78

Lichens, 454, 887, 889, 930, 946, 1208-19
Alpine, 1214-15
distribution of, 1213-14
organs of, 1212
reindeer, 931
rock hair, 1216-17
Tripe de Roche, 1219
written, 1211
Umbelicarus, Higinis, 514
Usnea florida, 1217-18

Life, omnipresence of, 1285-95

Light, 44, 51-2, 802

Ligule, 864

Liliaceous plants, 955

Lilies, 1084-87

Lindley, 995, 1060
classification of, 1000-2

Linnæan region, 939

Linnæus, 990, 1043, 1216, 1266, 1296, 1403, 1466

Lion, 1546, 1548
the (constellation), 78

Lister, Sir Joseph, 1134

Liverworts, 455, 887

Lizards, 1390-91, 1544, 1551

Llama, 1554

Llanos, the, 646, 918, 1143

Lobster, 1377-78

Lockyer, 342, 345, 346

Loess, 499

Lowell, Percival, 388-89, 390

Lowlands, 634-48

Lubbock, Sir J., 1457, 1656, 1657, 1661

Lucifer, 359

Lycopodiaceæ, 455, 470, 472

Lycopods, 468, 961-63, 1229-30

Lyell, Sir Charles, 627, 1466

Lynx, the, 78

Lyre, the, 85