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Uniseriate, in one series. 



Urceolate, shaped like a pitcher with a contracted mouth. 

 Urn-shaped, shaped like a vase roundish in form and enlarged in the 

 middle. 



Vasculiform, having the form of a little vessel, like a common 



flower-pot. 

 Veil, a partial covering of the cup; a membranaceous, fibrous, or 



granulose coating stretching over the mouth of the cup, soon 



breaking up into fragments. 

 Venoso-costate, having raised lines partly resembling veins and partly 



ribs. 

 Ventricose, big-bellied, swollen out, puffed up. 

 Verrucose, warted. 

 Vesicular, like a bladder. 



Villose, Villous, covered with long, weak hairs. 

 Vinous, the colour of red wine. 

 Vitelline, the colour of the yelk of an egg. 



Waved, having an alternately concave and convex surface or margin. 

 Waxy, the consistence of wax. 



