GLOSSARY. 21 
Tubercled, pimply. 
Tubular, elongated and hollow. 
Zumid, swollen at one portion. 
Turbinate, top-shaped. 
Turgid, swollen throughout. 
Turnip-shaped, broader than high, @. ¢., narrowed below. 
/win, see Geminate. 
Twining, see Voluble. 
Zypical, embracing all the characteristics of a species, genus, or family. 
Umbcl, said of an arrangement of peduncles when like the ribs of an umbrella, bearing 
flowers in a flat or convex canopy (as in plate 63). 
Umbelle¢, a small umbel, formed upon the apex of a division of an umbel (as in plate 67). 
Umbilicate, depressed in the centre, like one end of an apple. (Plate 139, fig. 4.) 
Unarmed, destitute of spines, prickles, or like appendages. 
Uncinate, hooked. (Plate 92, fig. 4.) 
Undulate, see Wavy. 
Uni, one; as unicellular, one-celled. 
Unisexual, having stamens or pistils only. (Plate 14, figs. 3 and 7.) 
Urceolate, urn-shaped. 
Urticle, a small, thin-walled, one-seeded fruit. (Plate 153, fig. 5.) 
Valve, one of the pieces into which a pod splits. (Plate 173, fig. 5.) 
Valvate, said when parts meet each other by their edges, without over-lapping. 
Vascular, containing vessels. 
Vaulted, see Fornicate, 
Veins, the small ribs forming the frame-work of leaves, or other organs. 
Veiny, said when the veins are evident. 
Veinlets, diminutive of veins. 
Venation, the method of arrangement of veins. 
Ventral, the opposite of dorsal. 
Vermicular, worm-like. 
Vernation, the methodical arrangement of leaves in their buds. 
Verrucose, warty. (Plate 72, fig. 6.) | 
Versatile, attached by one point, with ability to swing to and fro. (Plate 178, fig. 3.) 
Vertex, the same as Afex, which see. 
Vertical, perpendicular; at right angles to the plane of the ground. 
Verticil, a Whorl, which see. . 
Verticillaster, a whorl of small flowers, as in many mints. 
Verticillate, whorled. , 
Vesicle, a little bladder. (Plate 153, fig. 7-) 
Vexillum, the standard of a papillionaceous flower. (Plate 46, fig. 3a.) 
Villose, shaggy, with long, soft hairs. 
Virgate, wand-like. (Plate 114, fig. 1.) 
Viscid, having a glutinous surface. 
Vitte, the oil-tubes of Umbelliferous fruits. 
Voluble, twining (as the stem of plate 130). 
Wavy, when the margin is alternately convex and coneave (as the leaves of plate 19). 
