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GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 



Valvale or vnlvular aestivation, &c. : 

 ■where tlie ])arts meet by their edges 

 witliout overlapping, 144, 273. 

 Valve: a door, or portion into whieli a 

 pod, &c. separates in dehiscence ; 

 also a jjicce or leaf of a spatlic, &e. 

 Valved : opening- by valves. 

 Vanilla, 489. 

 Varie<iated : having one or two colors 



disposed in patches. 

 Varieties, 3.55. 

 Vascular : relating to or furnished with 



vessels. 

 Vascular Plants, 68. 

 Vdsruiar or viisijhrin tissue, 40, 45. 

 Vasciihiin : same as Ascidium. 

 Vegetable Ivory, 484. 

 Vegetable Physiology and Anatomy, 



14. 

 Veil : see Calyptra. 



Veined : furnished with slender vascular 

 or woody bundles, especially with 

 branching ones, or 

 Veiyis, 145, 155. 



Veinless : destitute of apparent A-cins. 

 Veinlels : the smaller ramifications of 



veins, 155. 

 Velafe: veiled. 



Velutinous : velvety ; covered with very 

 fine and close soft hairs, so that 

 the surface resembles velvet to the 

 touch. 

 Venation : the mode of A'cining, 154. 

 Ve'nose : veiny ; abounding in veins. 

 Ventral: relating to the inner side of a 

 simple pistil, viz. that next the 

 axis. 

 Ventral suture : the inner suture, 289. 

 Ve'ntricose : big-bellied ; swelling out. 

 Venlrkulose : somewhat ventricosc. 

 Ve'nulose : abounding in veinlets. 

 Veratria, 494. 

 Verbcnaceaj, 449. 



Vermicular : worm-like, in shape or ap- 

 pearance. 

 Vernal : belonging to spring. 

 Vernation : the disposition of leaves in 



the bud, 143. 

 Ve'rnicose: varnished. 

 Ve'rrucose : wartv. 



Ve'rruculose : studded with little warts. 

 Versatile: swinging to and fro; 282, 



fig. 471. 

 Veiiex : the summit. 

 Ve'rtical : perpendicular, lengthwise. 

 Vertical leaves, 165. 

 Vertical tissue or si/stem, 45, 50, 112. 

 Verticil, or verticel : a whorl, 92, 134. 

 Verticil! aster : the pair of dense cymes 

 forming an a]i])arent verticil in 

 most LabiatiB, 221. 

 Verticillute: whorled, 133, 142, 221. 



Vesicle : a little bladder. 



Vesicular : as if composed of little blad- 

 ders. 



Vespertine : appearing or expanding in 

 the early evening. 



Vessels, 40. 



Vc.rillarij ajstivatioii, 271. 



Verillarij : pertaining to the 



Vexilluiii : the standard of a pajiiliona- 

 eeous corolla ; 253, fig. 3J2, a. 



Villose, or villous : shaggy with long and 

 soft hairs, or villosit/j. 



Vimineous : bearing or resembling long 

 and flexible twigs, like wicker. 



Vine: any trailing, climbing, or twining 

 stem. The Vine, originally, is the 

 Grape-vine. 



ViolaccEE, or Violarieae, 392. 



Vire'scent : somewhat green (virens). 



I'irqate: tw'ig-like ; wand-like. 



Viridescent: same as Virescent. 



Viscid, viscous : sticky from a tena- 

 cious secretion. 



Vitacea;, 407. 



I ile'Jus : the thickened embiyo-sac per- 

 sistent in the seed, as in Saururus 

 and Brasenia. 



Viticulose: producing small suckers or 

 stolons (viticulw). 



Vitt(e (fillets): the oil-receptacles of the 

 fruit of Umbellifera;, 426. 



Vittate : bearing vittaj : marked with 

 longitudinal stripes or fillets, 

 426. 



Viviparous : germinating from the seed 

 (330), or sprouting from a bulb, 

 &c., while still attached to the 

 parent plant. 



Voluble: twining, 102. 



Volute : rolled up. 



Volva : the wi-apper of Fungi, 507. 



Walnut, 476. 



Wavy: see Undulate. 



Wax, 56. 



Waxy : resembling beeswax in appear- 

 ance or consistence. 



Wed</e-shaped: see Cuneate. 



Wheat, 498. 



Wheel-shaped : a corolla or calyx with 

 a very short tube and a flat- 

 spreading border; 278, fig. 454. 



Whorl : a set of organs arranged in a 

 circle round an axis, 92, 134, 

 221. 



Whorled: disposed in whorls. 



Whortleberry, 439. 



Wild: growing spontaneoiisly. 



Wincj: any membranous expansion. 

 Also the two side petals of a pa- 

 pilionaceous corolla ; 253, fig. 

 392, b. 



