APPENDIX II. 



Tri-quetrous, with 3 sharp corners. 



Tropophilons, plants adapted for a physiologically wet 

 climate at one season of the year aad a dry climate at 

 another season are termed tropophilons. 



Trnncate, as though cut off at the end. 



Turbinate, top- shaped. 



Turgid, tense ap though with pressure from within, 

 Bwollen. 



Umbel, an inflorescence in which the branches all radiate 

 from the top of the poduncle. If these branches each termi- 

 nate in a flower, th umbel is simple, if they are again 

 umbellately branched, the umbel is compound. 



Unilocular, applied to an ovary not divided up by parti- 

 tions into separate compartments. 



Urceolate, flask-shaped and broadest below the middle. 

 Valvate, said of sepals, etc., whea they are only connate 

 in bud by their edges which do not overlap. 

 Ventral, the lower side. 

 Ventricose, suddenly bulged. 

 Venulose, with vein-like raised markings, 

 Verrucose, covered with wart-like small bosses. 



Versatile, said of an another which is attached above its 

 base to the attenuated tip of the filament on which it 

 swings. 



Verticillate, whorled 



Villose, villous, covered with long fine soft hairs. 



Virgate, with slender erect rod-like stems or branches. 



Viscid, with a sticky secretion. 



XeropMlous, adapted by structure to conditions of 

 drought. 



Xerophytes, plants which inhabit localities where they 

 aw aubiect to conditions of physiological drought. 



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