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INDEX AND GLOSSARY. 



Tube, 103. 



Tuber, ISO. 



Tuberiferous ; bearing tubers. 



Tuberous, 147. 



Tubular, 103. 



Tunicated, 178, a. 



Turbinate ; shaped like a top. 



Turgid ; swollen. 



Umbel, 302, a. 



Umbellet, 305, a. 



Umbilicate ; depressed in the centre. 



Unarmed, 235, 7. 



Uncinate ; hooked at the end. 



Undulate; wavy. 



Unquis ; the claw, as of a petal. 



Unilateral; one-sided. 



Utricle, 116, 8. 



Valvate, 108, 1. 

 Valves, 115. 

 Varieties, 51. 

 Vascular tissue, 33. 

 Vasculares, 47. 

 Vasifonn tissue, 32. 



Vegetable physiology, 3. 



Vegetable kingdom, variety of, 13. 



Vegetation, its diffusion, 14, a. 



Veins, 228. 



Veinlets, 228. Veinulets, 228. 



Velvety ; clothed with a dense, soft pub- 

 escence. 



Venation, 226. 



Ventral, 84. 



Vernation, 216. 



Verticillaster, 309. 



Verticillate, 218, 4. 



Vescicular; bladdery. 



Vexillary, 108, 6. 



Vexillum, 105, 5. 



Villose ; villous ; clothed with long hairs. 



Vine, 187. 



Viscid ; clammy, sticky. 



Vittae ; receptacles oi secretion in the 

 seed of Umbelliferae. 



Whorled, 175. 

 Winged, 222, 2. 

 Wood, 201, 202. 

 Woody tissue, or fibre, 30. 



ABBREVIATIONS AND SIGNS, 



OFTEN USED IN DESCRIPTIVE BOTANY. 



ach. achenia. 

 <BSt. aestivation. 

 alter, alternate. 

 amplex. amplexicaul. 

 anth. anther. 

 axill. axillary. 

 cal. calyx. 

 caps, capsule. 

 cor. corolla. 

 decid. deciduous. 

 diam. diameter. 

 ellip. elliptical. 

 emarg. emarginate. 

 epig. epigynous. 

 /. or ft. feet. 



fil. filaments. 



Jl. flower ; Jis. flowers. 



//•. fruit. 



hd. head ; hds. heads. 



hyp. hypogynous. 



imbr. imbricate. 



inf. inferior. 



invol. involucre. 



irreg. irregular. 



leg. legume. 



If. leaf; Ivs. leaves. 



Ifts. leaflets. 



lorn, loment. 



ojip. opposite. 



ova. ovary. 



ped. peduncle. 

 pet. petals. 

 perig. perigynous. 

 perig. perigynium. 

 recep. receptacle. 

 reg. regular. 

 rkiz. rhizoma. 

 rt. root. 

 sds. seeds. 

 seg. segments. 

 sep. sepals. 

 St. stem. 

 sta. stamens. 

 stig. stigmas. 

 sty. styles. 



The names of the months^ and of states and coimtries, are often abbreviated, and 

 always in the same manner as in other works ; thus, Apr. April ; Ju. June ; Mass. 

 Massachusetts ; N. Y. New York ; la. or Ind., Indiana, &c. 



Tfie folloiuing Signs are also in general icse : — 



© An annual plant. 



© A biennial plant. 



"^ A perennial herb. 



h A plant with a woody stem. 



(f A staminate flower oV plant. 



$ A pistillate flower or plant. 



