Water 



Winter. 



'-' Pore, ~ Stom'a, a stoma devoid 

 of guard-cells, discharging water ; 

 ~ Sacs, in Hepaticae, lobes of the 

 leaves which retain moisture; '- 

 Stor'ing-tis'sue, a form of water- 

 tissue adapted for storing water, 

 especially in dry climates ; -^ 

 Ta'ble, the level of saturation of 

 soil by ground water; ~ Tis'sue, 

 parenchyma filled with clear sap 

 and some mucilage. 



waved, wa'vy, undulate, or sinuate. 



Wax, veg'etable, a fatty body occur- 

 ring a8 a waste product, either 

 superficially as Bloom on leaves, 

 or in quantity in fruits and stems 

 as in Myrica cerifera, Linn., and 

 Ceroxylon Klopstockia, Mart. ; wax'y, 

 resembling beeswax in consistence 

 or appearance; <- Coat'ing, a thin 

 epidermal layer of rods or grains, 

 forming a glaucous bloom on fruits 

 and leaves; -~ yel'Jow an impure 

 yellow, cf. cereus, melleus. 



Wed = Wady or Oukp. 



wedge-form, -^ shape, cuneate. 



Weed, any useless or troublesonio 

 plant which occui-s without in- 

 tentional cultivation. 



Weel, a term borrowed from a wicker 

 eel-trap, for an arrangement of hairs 

 which keeps out unbidden insect 

 guests from flowers (Ogle). 



Weep'ing, excessive loss of sap from 

 wounos, as in the vine or birch; 

 bleeding ; adj. = pendulous in habit. 



Welt, a raised stripe on fruit such as 

 the lemon (Crozicr); welt'edis given 

 by Crozier as "flaccid, drooping'"; 

 it is probably an error for wiltkd. 



Wendungizel'len (Ger.), a disc-shaped 

 group of hyaline cells (or a single 

 cell) at the base of the oosphere in 

 Characcae. 



wett'able, capable of being wetted; 

 Wettabil'ity, the condition described 

 (modern ecological tenus). 



Wheat-ear Carnation, an abnormal 

 increase or plciotaxy of bracts. 



wheel-shaped, rotate. 



whip-thaped, llagellifonn. 



Whirl (S. F. Grav) ^ Wiioiu.. 



white, when positive colour is absent ; 



{albits is white generally, niveus, as 

 pure as snow, caiulidiis, radiantly 

 white, etc. ) ; -^ Chlor'ophyll.Gau tier's 

 term for chlorophyll which is rich in 

 hydrogen and colourless ; the normal 

 green type is stated to be poorer in 

 that gas ; ~ -heads, = Take-aij, dis- 

 ease in w heat ; ^ Root-rot, a Fungus 

 scourge in parts of Europe caused 

 by Danatophora necalrix ; whi'tened, 

 dealbate, with a darker ground tint ; 

 whi'tish, albidus, albulus, etc. 



Whorl (pr. hwurl), the arrangement of 

 organs in a circle round an axis ; 

 false- ~ , »pu'riou8 ^ , = Vekticil- 

 larter; whorled (pr. hwurld), dis- 

 posed in one or more whorls. 



Wick'er-hairs, an awkward and inex- 

 pressive rendering of the German 

 " Reuscnhaare " ; rf. Trap-hairs; 

 Wkel. 



wild, spontaneous, growing without 

 cultivation or introduction. 



Wild'erine (Crozier) = Wi'lding, (1) 

 any wild plant ; (2) an escape from 

 cultivation. 



Wllt-disease, attributed to Fmarium 

 Tttsi^ifectum or F. Lini, on different 

 plants ; wilt'ed, become flaccid, the 

 opposite of turgid ; wilt'ing, drooj)- 

 ing, having lost the quality of fresh- 

 ness ; Wilt'ing Coefflc'ient, the 

 amount of water in the soil when a 

 plant diDops. 



wind-poUiixa'ted, the pollen conveyed 

 by the agftTicy of the air; anemophily. 



Win'doWB, employed for openings when 

 the flowers do not expand, remaining 

 united at base and apex of perianth, 

 as in CryptoplioranthiLs (Holfc-; 

 win'dow-bear'ing, the condition 

 described. 



Wing, (1) = Ai.A, any membranous ex- 

 pansion attached to an organ ; (2) 

 a lateral j»ctal of a papilionaceous 

 corolla; ~ Bract, the attache*! sub- 

 tending bract of Tilia; winged, 

 alate. 



Win'ter-an'nual, a plant which geinii- 

 nates in a\itunui, and living through 

 the winter, fruits and dies ; cf. 

 BiRNNiAi, ; ~ -kil'ling, destiuction 

 by exi>osure to variations ol weather 



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