logan, loggan

[LOG (3), v.] A rocking stone; a large stone so balanced as to be easily made to rock to and fro. [ROCKING-STONE.] 10-găně-æ, s. pl . [Mod. Lat. logan ( ia ); Lat. fein. pl. adj. suff. -eœ.] Bot.: The typical tribe of the order Loganiacem (q. v.). 1ō-găn-I-a, s. [Named by Mr. Brown after a Mr. Jas. Logan, said to have been the author of some experiments on the generation of plants. ( Loudon .)] Bot.: The typical genus of the tribe Loganese and the order Loganiaceae (q. v.). It consists of about eleven small Australian bushes or herbaceous plants, with opposite entire leaves and terminal or axillary bunches of white flowers. 1ō-găn-1-ā-çe-æ, s . pl . [Mod. Lat. logan (ia); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -aceœ .] Bot.: Logan i ads; an order of perigynous exogens, alliance Gentian a les. The leaves are opposite, entire, with stipules often interpetiolar; flowers racemose, corymbose, or solitary; calyx valvate or imbricated, four to five-parted; corolla regular or irregular, four, five, or ten-cleft; stamens in the same line; ovary superior, two, three, or spuriously four-celled; ovules indefinite or solitary; fruit capsular, drupaceous or berried. Distribution, tropical or intertropical countries. Known genera 22, species 162. 1ō-găn-i-adş, s . pl . [Mod. Lat. logan i (a); Eng. pl. suff.- ads .] Bot.: The name given by Lindley to the order Loganiaceae (q. v.).