GLOSSARY OF BOTANICAL TERMS. 



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Venation, in reference to the leaf: 



the distribution of veins or the 



frame- work. 

 Ventricose, swelUng, inflated. 

 Vernation, the mode in which young 



leaves £ye folded in the bud. 

 Verrucose, warty, covered with little 



protuberances. 

 Versafik, swinging lightly on a stalk 



so as to be continually changing 



direction. 

 Vertical, perpendicular. 

 Verticil or whorl, flowers or leaves 



arranged around the stem in a 



horizontal ring. 

 Verticillaster or verticillastrum, a 



false whorl or verticil ; a condensed 



cyme or cluster, as in some of the 



Labiatae. 

 Verticillate, arranged in a verticil or 



whorl. 

 Vesicular, made up of vesicles or little 



bladders. 

 Vesiculose, bladder-like. 



Villous or villose, hairy, the hairs 



long and soft. 

 Virescent, becoming green. 

 Virgate, long and slender, wand-like. 

 Viridescent, greenish. 

 Virose, poisonous, nauseous and 



strong to the smell. 

 Viscid or viscous, thick, glutinous, 



covered with adhesive juice. 

 Viviparous, producing a collateral 



offspring by means of bulbs. 



Wedge-shaped, formed like a wedge, 

 and commonly rounded at the 

 largest end. 



Wheel-shaped, see Rotate. 



Whorl, see Verticil. 



Winged, having the sides extended 

 into a leafy expansion. 



Wings, the two lateral petals of a 

 papilionaceous flower, 81. 



Woolly, clothed with a matted pubes- 

 cence, resembUncf wool. 



