the summer. 
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Verschaffeltia—continued. 
the primary veins prominent on both surfaces ; petioles 6in. to 12in. 
long, pale green, semi-terete, grooved down the face; sheaths 
24ft. to 34ft. long, white-granular. Stem Gin. to 12in. in diameter, 
and (as well as the leaf-sheaths and petioles) very spiny when 
young. A. 80ft. Seychelles, 1864. See Fig. 166. (F. d. S. 
1597-8; I. H. 430; R. G. 1875, p. 308; R. H. 1869, 148.) This has 
been known in gardens as Regelia magnifica, R. majestica, and 
R. princeps. 
VERTEBRATE. Contracted at intervals, like the 
vertebre of animals, there being an articulation at each 
contraction, as in some leaves. 
VERTEX. The apex of an organ. 
VERTICAL. Placed in the direction from base to 
apex. 
VERTICIL. A whorl. 
VERTICILLASTER. A false whorl, composed, in 
Labiate, of a pair of opposite cymes. 
VERTICILLATE. Disposed in a whorl; when 
several bodies form a ring round a common axis: e.g., 
leaves round a stem; sepals, petals, and stamens round 
an ovary. ; 
 VERTICOREDIA (from verto, to turn, and cor, cordis, 
a heart; a title of Venus, to whom the Myrtle was sacred). 
Juniper Myrtle. Including Chrysorrhoe. ORD. Myrtacee. 
A genus embracing thirty-seven species of greenhouse 
shrubs, with usually the aspect of a Heath or Diosma, 
glabrous except the cilia on the edges of the leaves, 
limited to Australia. Flowers whitish, pink, or yellow, 
usually pedicellate in the upper axils, often corymbose, 
spicate, or racemose; calyx lobes five, often coloured, 
elegantly plumose, radiating; petals five, entire, fringed, 
or digitate; stamens ten, alternating with as many 
staminodia. Leaves small, opposite or very rarely 
alternate, entire. A selection of the introduced species 
is here given. They are of easy culture in a compost 
of sandy loam and leaf mould. They are readily pro- 
pagated by cuttings of firm or partially-ripened shoots, 
inserted under a glass, or in a close frame. An abundance 
of water and frequent: syringings are requisite throughout 
‘The roots should not be allowed to get 
v obtuse, keeled or triquetrous, in. to in. long. 
1942. Bib eA DUET and muk hanka E 
fl. white or pink, in 
nearly orb 
triquetrous, slender, lin. to Jin. long, crowded on the short side 
branches so as to form axi ufts 
V.Fontanesii (Desfontaines’). fi. white or pink, in terminal, leafy 
corymbs, or rounded, dense icles, close above the stem leaves 
or shortly pedunculate ; pe as long as the calyx lobes, slightly 
pubescent. April. Z. linear, semi-terete or triquetrous, usually 
slender, obtuse or mucronate, three to four lines long, densel 
crowded on the short lateral shoots, or rarely żin. long ak 
looser. h. Sft. to 4ft. 1826. Shrub erect and bushy. Syn. 
Cham 
V. insignis (remarkable). fi. pink, on moon often more than 
lin. long, in loose, irregular, terminal, leafy corymbs ; petals 
orbicular, cilated. April. ¿Z broadly ovate to oblong, very 
obtuse or almost mucronate, two to four lines long, the lower 
ones, and those of the barren branches, often laterally compressed 
d teram h. lft. to 2ft. 1839. Shrub erect, branching from 
e base. ! 
V. nitens (shining). fi. golden-yellow, on slender pedicels, in 
a broad, terminal co ^ b; 
rymb ; about as long as the pe zéi 
: i y toothed. April. /. linear, semi-terete, rather slender, 
acute or mucronulate, mostly sin. to }in., but the lower ones 
above lin., long. h. 2ft. 1862. Shrub corymbosely 
branched. (B. M. 5286.) SYN. Chrysorrhoe nitens. 
VERULAMIA. A synonym of Pavetta (which see). 
VERVAIN. See Verbena. 
VERVAIN, BASTARD. See Stachytarpheta. 
Y 
VERVAIN SAGE. See Salvia Verbenaca. 
VESICARIA (from vesica, a bladder or blister; 
alluding to the inflated pods). Bladder Pod or Seed. ORD. 
Crucifere. A genus embracing about a score species of 
mostly hardy, branched, annual or perennial herbs, found in 
temperate North America, South Europe, Syria, Persia, 
and the Andes. Flowers yellow or purple, variable in 
form, large, rarely small; sepals equal at base, or the 
lateral ones sub-saccate; racemes ebracteate. Pods 
globose or inflated. Leaves entire, sinuate, or pinnatifid. 
The species here described are well adapted for orna- 
menting rockwork. They are of the simplest culture. 
The annuals may be increased by seeds, and the perennials 
by divisions. 
V. arctica (Arctic). fl. yellow, many in dense racemes. August. 
l. oblanceolate and linear-spathulate, of a beautiful silvery colour, 
clustered. A. Lt. North America, 1828. Perennial. (B. M. 2882.) 
V. gracilis (slender). Z. yellow; petals spreading, obcordate, 
nearly sessile; racemes elongated. June. /. lanceolate, entire 
or slightly angular, Zeng: ` naked; lower ones sub-spathulate, 
tiolate. Stems many, filiform, rigid, slightly scabrid. À. Gin, 
exas, 1851. Annual. (B. M. 3533.) 
V. græca (Greek). H. petals nearly twice as long as the calyx, 
the lamina yellow, elliptic. Summer. 1. of the sterile branches 
thick, oblong-spathulate, slightly acute; those of the fertile 
stems sessile, erect, acute, the margins ciliated and often denti- 
‘culate. Greece, Perennial. SYN. Alyssum utriculatum. 
V. grandiflora (large-flowered).* f. yellow, large; petals 
rounded, spreading, very shortly clawed; racemes elongated, 
many-flowered. July. i. oblong; radical ones sub-lyrately 
pinnatifid, petiolate; cauline ones sinuate-toothed, sessile. Stem 
erect, flexuous. h. lft. Texas, 1 A stellately-pubescent 
ann (B. M. 3464; S. B. F. G. ser. ii. 401.) 
TN 
Fic. 167. VESICARIA UTRICULATA, showing Habit and 
detached Flower. 
* 
. utri ladder-podded).* fl. yellow, closely resembling ` 
GN ir pe SCH Ce ee April to June. 
the Wallflower; calyx bisaccate at m 
l. oblong, quite entire, smooth ; lower ones ciliated, somewhat 
spathulate. A. lft. South Europe, 1730. Perennial. . Fig. 
167. (S. F. G. 627.) 
VESICLE. A small bladder or air c: 
VESICULAR, VESICULATE, V 
VESICULEFORM. Inflated; blad 
as if composed of little bladders. 
VESLINGIA (named after John Vesling, 1598-1649, 
ry;' ppe I 
Padua). Syns. Guizotia (the proper name, according to 
Bentham and Hooker), Ramtilla. S Tn A 
small genus (three species) of tropical can, e, 
annual herbs. Flower-heads yellow, at the tips of the 
vw 
branches or pedunculate in the upper axils, heterogamous ; 
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