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Toothed, divided so as to resemble teeth, 
Toothletted, furnished with little teeth. 
Topical, local, confined to some particular place. 
Torose, uneven, alternately elevated and depressed. 
Tortuous, twisted. 
Torulose, slightly torose, 
Torus, the same as Thalamus. 
Transversely-flexuous, bent in a cross direction, 
Transversely-plicate, plaited in a cross direction. 
Trapesiform, 
Trapexiform, 
Trapezoid, having the form of a trapezium. 
Triandrous, having three stamens. 
Tribracteate, having three bracteas. 
Trichotomous, branches dividing in threes. 
Trichotomously-panicled, having a panicle, whose 
branches divide in threes. 
Tricoccous, a fruit of 3 l-seed cells is so called, as 
those of Euphorbia. 
Tricuspidate, having three points. 
Tridentate, having three teeth 
Trifarious, arranged in triple rank or in three rows. 
Trifoliate, having three leaflets. 
Trifid, divided into three, or not to the base. 
Trigonal, having three angles. 
Trigynous, having three styles, 
Trilocular, having three cells. 
Tripetaloid, appearing as if furnished with three 
petals. 
Tripetalous, having three petals, 
Tripinnate, thrice- pinnate. 
Tripinnatifid, thrice pinnatifid. 
Triple-nerved, three-nerved, and throwing out three 
side nerves a little above the base. 
Triquetrous, having three sides or angles. 
Triquetrously-2-edged, having only two edges, the 
third being nearly obsolete, 
Trisected, cut into three parts. 
Triternate, thrice ternate. 
Triturated, reduced to powder by pounding. 
Trochleate, twisted like a pully. 
Trochleately-arched, twisted and arched. 
Tropical, belonging to the torrid zone. 
Truncate, blunt, as if cut off. 
Truncately-obtuse, blunt, and as if cut off, 
Truncately-triangular, cutoff at end so as to give 
the leafa triangular figure. 
Tube of stamens or staminiferous tube, the tube 
formed from the cohesion of the filaments in 
monadelphous flowers is so called. 
Tube of calyx, the tube formed from the cohesion 
of the sepals. 
Tubercled, 
Tuberculate, 
Tuberculated, 
Tubercular, 
Tuberculately-hairy, covered with stiff short hairs 
resembling tubercles. 
Tuberous, bearing fleshy, solid, roundish or longish 
roots, like the potatoe. 
Tubers, roots so called, potatoes. 
Tubular, forming a tube. 
Tufted, forming a dense tuft. 
Tumid, swelling. 
\ in the shape of a trapezium, 
covered with knots or tubercles, 
Tunic, a coat, a seed cover. 
Tunicated, having a coat or coats. 
Tati \ having the figure of a top. 
Turbinately-globose, between the form of a top and 
a globe, 
Turgid, swollen, puffed up. 
* Undulately-wrinkled, 
GLOSSARY. 
U, 
Umbellulate, disposed in small umbels. 
Umbellate, having the flowers in round flat heads, 
the peduncles originating from a common centre, 
as in the carrot. 
'mbellately-branched, branched in an umbellate 
manner. 
Umbelliferous, bearing umbels. 
Umbellules, \ small umbels, the, divisions of an 
Umbellets, } umbel. 
Umbels, the flat tuft of flowers produced by a 
carrot, the peduncles and pedicels always rising 
from a common centre. 
Umbilical, of or belonging to the umbilicus. 
Umbilicate, : 
Umbilicated, ) hollowed like the navel. 
Umbilicus, the cord which attaches the seed to the 
placenta. 
Umbonate, having a top in the centre like that of 
the ancient shield. 
J/narmed, destitute of prickles or spines, which are 
called the arms of plants. 
Unappendiculate or inappendiculate, without appen- 
dages of any kind. 
Uncinate, hooked. 
Uncinately-inflexed, hooked inwards. 
Unctuous, fat, oily. 
Undulate, 
Undulated, 
Undulately-crenated, crenated and waved. 
Undulately-curled, curled and waved. 
Undulately-rugose, rugged or wrinkled and 
waved. 
Unequal, when applied to petals or sepals, indicates 
that they are of unequal size and shape. 
Unequal-sided, having unequal sides. 
Une wiculataa, Y furnished with claws or an unguis. 
Unguis, the taper-base of a petal or any thing else. 
Unilabiaie, having only one lip. 
Unilateral, one-sided, or leaning to one side. 
Unilocular, having one cell. 
Unisexual, being of one sex. 
Urceolar, of or belonging to an urceolus, having an 
urceolus, or expanded into an urceolus; usually 
applied to the disk. 
Urceolate, pitcher-shaped. 
Urceolus, the filaments may be joined intoa pitcher- 
shaped body, this is called the urceolus of the 
stamens, or they may be surrounded by a pitcher- 
shaped membrane, this is also called an urceolus. 
Ustulate, blackened. 
Uterine, belonging to the womb. 
Uterus, the womb. 
Utricle, a little bottle or bladder. 
Utricular, composed of little bladders. 
waved, rising and falling. 
V, 
Valvate, opening like valves, 
Valvately-connate, joined like valves, 
Valveform, form of a valve. 
Falveless, without valves. 
Valvular, consisting of valves. 
FValvular-dissepiments, having dissepiments or par- 
titions in the centre of the valves, 
Valves, the divisions of a capsule. 
Valved, having valves, 
Varicose, swollen here and there. 
Vascular, composed of tubes or vessels. 
Vaulted, formed or placed like the roof of a vault. 
Keinless, without veins. i 
Velvety, covered with down like velvet. 
Velvety-puberulous, covered with velvety down. _ 
Velvety-pubescent, covered with soft, pressed down, 
like velvet. . . 
Velvety-tomentose, covered with soft tomentum like 
velvet. , 
Veneering, the art of covering one kind of wood 
with thin plates of another kind. 
Ventricose, inflated. 
Vermicular, having the appearance of a worm. 
Vermifuge, that which expels worms. 
Vernacular, native. 
Vernal, belonging to the spring. 
Versatile, swinging lightly on a stalk, so as to be 
continually changing direction. 
Vertex, the uppermost point. 
Vertical, perpendicular. 
Vertically-compressed, that is depressed. 
Verticillate, disposed in a whorl. 
Vertilinear, the same as rectilinear. 
Vesicatories, blistering plasters. 
Vesicles, hollow excrescences, resembling bladders. 
Vexillum, standard, the upper petal of a pea-flower. 
Villi, long, close, rather soft hairs. . 
Villous, covered with soft, close, long, loose hairs. 
Villously -ciliated, ciliated with soft hairs. 
Villously-cinereous, covered with grey, soft, long 
loose hairs. 
Villously-hairy, covered with soft hairs. 
Villously-pubescent, covered with soft long pubes- 
cence, 
Villously- tomentose, covered with soft long tomentum. 
Violaceous, the colour of a violet. 
Virescent, greenish. 
Viscid . 
Viscons , ? adhesive, clammy. 
Viviparous, bearing young plants in the place of 
flowers and seed. 
Vulnerary, useful in the cure of wounds. 
Pulviform, like a cleft with projecting edges. 
W. 
Warted, covered with protuberances like warts. 
Wattled, having processes like the wattles of a 
cock. 
Wavy, undulated. 
Wdved, having wavy edges. 
White-velvety, covered with white down like velvet. 
Whorled, disposed in whorls or whirls. 
Whorls, leaves inserted round a stem, as those of 
Hippuris or Equisetum. 
Wing, in botany, signifies a membranous border, 
wherewith many seeds are supported in the alr, 
when floating from place to place. 
Wings, the side petals of a pea-flower. 
Wing-formed, having the form of a wing. 
Winged, having a wing or wings. 
Wrinkled, having an uneven surface. 
Z. 
Zonate, having a dark belt in the shape of a horse- 
shoe, aS In some species of Pelargonium. 
Zones, stripes or belts. 
Zigzag, astem is called zigzag when it bends from 
side to side. 
