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GLOSSARY. 



Utricle; a little sac, or thin pericarp, 

 which incloses, but does not adhere to, 

 the seed. 



Valvate ; shutting or fitted together by 

 the edges, without overlapping. 



Valves ; the parts of a regularly dehis- 

 cent capsule; also, the scales which 

 close the tube, in some corrollas ; and 

 the chaffy pieces which cover the flow- 

 ers of the Grasses. 



Variety ; a modification of a plant, pro 

 duced by accidental causes, such as 

 soil, climate, culture, crossing, &c. but 

 not permanently at least, not speci- 

 fically distinct. 



Vascular plants ; the higher orders (in 

 eluding all above the Mosses), com- 

 posed more or less of woody fibres, and 

 elongated or tubular vessels. 



Vaulted ; arched, like the roof of the 

 mouth. 



Veil (of the Fungi) ; a delicate membrane 

 in certain Agarics, which, in an early 

 stage, connects the margin of the pil- 

 eus with the stipe. See Volva. 



Veined; having the vessels variously 

 branching over the surface. 



Veins ; the elongated vessels of leaves, 

 often synonymous with nerves. 



Venation ot a leaf ; the distribution or 

 arrangement of the veins, or frame 

 work in the lamina or blade. 



Ventral ; belonging to the belly. 



Ventral suture ; the seam of a carpel (or 

 folded leaf), formed by the union of 

 its margins : the opposite of dorsal, 



Ventricose ; bellied ; swelling out in the 

 middle, or below it. 



Vernation; the mode in which young 

 leaves are folded and packed in the 

 bud. 



Verrucose; warty; covered with warts. 



Versatile anther; fixed by the middle on 

 the point of the filaments, and mova 

 ble round. 



Vertical, in a perpendicular direction 

 from the zenith downward. 



Vertical leaves; standing edge up, in 



stead of the flat surface. 



r erticil; a whorl; a horizontal ring of 

 leaves, &c. round a stem, or at its sum- 

 mit. 



Verticittate; arranged in a verticil, or 

 whorl. 



Vesicles ; little bladder-like vessels. 



Vesicular ; made of, or resembling, little 

 bladders. 



Vespertine flowers; expanding in the 

 evening. 



Vexillum; the banner, standard, or broad 

 upper petal, of a papilionaceous flower. 



Villous ; velvety ; densely clothed with 

 soft hairs. 



Virescent ; inclining to, or becoming, 

 green. 



Virgate; wand-like; long, slender, and 

 straight. 



Viridescent ; greenish. 



Viscid; clammy; covered with a sticky 

 moisture. 



Viscid -pubescent ; clothed with a clammy 

 pubescence. 



Vittae; fillets; linear receptacles of oily 

 matter on the carpels of umbelliferous 

 plants. 



Viviparous ; producing young plants by 

 bulbs, instead of seeds; also, applied 

 to plants in which the seeds germinate 

 while in the pericarp, on the parent 

 stem. 



Volubile; ascending spirally round an- 

 other object. 



Volva ; the veil, or wrapper, of a young 

 Agaric, which bursts by the rapid 

 development of the plant, leaving its 

 remains adherent to the base of the 

 stipe. 



Whorl; see verticil. 



Winged ; having a thin extended mar- 

 gin. 



Wings; the side petals of a papiliona- 

 ceous flower; also, the membranous 

 expansion of certain pericarps; margins 

 of petioles, &c. 



Woolly; clothed with a long curled or 

 matted pubescence. 



