GLOSSARY. 11 



Umbel, inflorescence where the divergent branches or rays 



start from the same point. 

 Undershruh, small shrub whose herbaceous flowering 



branches die off in the winter. 

 Valcate, petals or sepals whose edges, in bud, are contiguous 



without overlapping. 

 Valves, nieces formed by the splitting of the pericarp or 



envelope of certain fruits when ripe, and usually equal- 

 ling the cells in number. 

 Variety, subdivision of a species. 

 Versniile, an anther attached by its back to the point of a 



filament, so as to swing easily. 

 Villous, beset with long, soft hairs. 

 Vitta, linear longitudinal oil vessel in the fruit of some 



UmheUife)a\ 

 Wheehhajyed (rotate), a corolla whose petals or lobes spread 



horizontally like a wheel or star. 

 Whurl, a set of organs, proceeding from the same ijode, and 



arranged in a circle round the axis. 

 Whorled ( certicillatej, arranged in a whorl. 



