Virescence 



OF BOTANICAL TERMS. 



Water-core 



support, and either grows 

 upon the ground or supports 

 itself upon other objects. 



VIRES'CENCE, having petals ab- 

 normally green in color, like 

 leaves. 



VIRES'^ENT, greenish, or be- 

 coming green. 



VIR'GATE, waud-like; long, 

 straight, and slender. 



VIR'GUlATE, diminutive of 

 Virgate; shaped like a little 

 twig or rod. 



VlRIDES'CENT, greenish; vires- 

 cent. 



VIROSE', having a nauseous 

 odor. 



VfS'CfD, sticky; adhesive; vis- 

 cous. 



VIS'CID DISK, the retinaculum 

 of orchids. 



VITEL'LUS, the embryo sac as it 

 appears in the seed. 



VITIC'OLOUS, growing upon the 

 grape-vine, as certain parasitic 

 fungi. 



ViTIC'ULA (pi. Vitic'ulae), a trail- 

 ing stem, as that of the cucum- 

 ber; a little viue; a tendril; a 

 stolon; a sarment. (Rare.) 



VITIC'ULOSE, bearing or resem- 

 bling viticulse. 



VITREOUS, transparent like 

 glass. Compare Hyaline. 



VIT'TA (pi. Vit'tae), one of the 

 tubular oil-receptacles in the 

 fruit of Umbelliferae; oil-tube. 

 They appear externally as 

 ridges. 



VlT'TATE, bearing vittse, or lon- 

 gitudinal stripes or ridges some- 

 what resembling the vittse on 

 ' the fruit of Umbelliferee. 



VIVA giOUS, (1) living over win- 

 ter, or from year to year; per- 

 ennial; (2) full of life; difficult 

 to kill. 



VIVIP'AROUS, producing bulbs 

 or seeds which germinate 

 while still attached to the 

 parent - plant. The term is 

 not applied to the production 

 of ordinary offsets or suckers. 



V6l'UBILE, see Twining. 



VdL'UBLE, see Twining. 



VOLUNTEER'. A volunteer crop 

 or plant is one which has come 

 from self-sown seed within the 

 boundaries of the field or farm 

 and has grown without care or 

 cultivation. The term implies 

 that the growth is of some 

 value. 



VOLUTE', rolled up in any direc- 

 tion. 



V&L'VA, a covering, membra- 

 nous, gelatinous, or otherwise, 

 which extends from the mar- 

 gin of the cap to the base of 

 the stipe in mushrooms, and 

 which is ruptured by growth 

 in those species which have an 

 elongated stem; wrapper; ve- 

 lum universale. 



WALL'ING OVER, a term em- 

 ployed in forestry for the 

 growth of a callus over a cut 

 or injured surface. 



WART, a sessile gland, hard ex- 

 crescence, or other protuber- 

 ance resembling a wart upon 

 animals. Compare Pustule. 



WART't, applied by gardeners 

 to a head of cauliflower when 

 it becomes loose and covered 

 with small prominences pre- 

 paratory to throwing up the 

 seed-stalks; frothy. 



WA'TER-CORE, an abnormal con- 

 dition of a part or the whole 

 of the flesh of the apple, occa- 

 sionally seen, in which the cells 

 are unusually firm, do not lose 

 their fluid contents upon ripen- 

 ing, and appear as though 

 water-soaked. 



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