226 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 



Venubse, furnished with veinlets. 



Vermicular, worm-like, shaped like worms. 



Vernal, belonging to spring. 



Vernation, the arrangement of the leaves in the bud, 71. 



Vemicose, the surface appearing as if varnished. 



Verrucose, warty; beset with little projections like warts. 



Versatile, attached by one point, so that it may swing to and fro, 101. 



Vertex, same as apex. 



Vertical, upright, perpendicular to the horizon, lengthwise. 



Verticil, a whorl, 68. Verticillate, whorled, 68. 



Verticillaster, a false whorl, formed of a pair of opposite cymes. 



Vesicular, bladdery. 



Vespertine, appearing or expanding at evening. 



Vessels, ducts, &c, 134. 



Vexillary, Vexillar, relating to the 



Vexillum, the standard of a papilionaceous flower, 92. 



Villose, shaggy with long and soft hairs ( Villosity). 



Vimineous, producing slender twigs, such as those used for wicker-work. 



Vine, in the American use, an}' trailing or climbing stem ; as a Grape-vine. 



Virescent, Viridescent, greenish ; turning green. 



Virgate, wand-shape; as a long, straight, and slender twig. 



Viscous, Viscid, having a glutinous surface. 



Vitta (plural vittce), the oil-tubes of the fruit of Umbelliferae. 



Vitelline, yellow, of the hue of yolk of egg. 



Viviparous, sprouting or germinating while attached to the parent plant. 



Voluble, twining; as the stem of Hops and Beans, 39. 



Volute, rolled up in any w,ay. 



Wavy, the surface or margin alternately convex and concave, 55. 



Waxy, resembling beeswax in texture or appearance. 



Wedge-shaped, broad above, tapering by straight lines to a narrow base, 53. 



Wheel-shaped, 89. 



Whorl, an arrangement of leaves, &c, in circles around the stem. 



Whorled, arranged in whorls, 68. 



Wing, any membranous expansion. Wings of papilionaceous flowers, 92. 



Winged, furnished with a wing; as the fruit of Ash and Elm, fig. 300, 301. 



Wood, 133, 142. Woody, of the texture or consisting of wood. 



Woody Fibre, or Wood-Cells, 134. 



Woolly, clothed with long and entangled soft hairs. 



Work in plants, 149, 155. 



Xanthos, Greek for yellow, used in compounds; as Xanthocarpus, yellow-fruited. 



Zygomorphous, said of a flower which can be bisected only in one plane into similar 

 halves. 



