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GLOSSARY. 



Toothed, divided so as to resemble teeth. 

 Toothletted, furnished with little teeth. 

 Topical, local, confined to some particular place. 

 Torose, uneven, alternately elevated and depressed. 

 Tortuous, twisted. 

 Torulose, slightly torose. 

 Torus, the same as Thalamus. 

 Transversely-flexuous, bent in a cross direction. 

 Transversely-plicate, plaited in a cross direction. 



Trapezoid, having the form of a trapezium. 

 Triandrous, having three stamens. 

 Tribracteate, having three bracteas. 

 Trichotomous, branches dividing in threes. 

 Trichotomously-panicled, having a panicle, whose 



branches divide in threes. 

 Tricoccous, a fruit of 3 1-seed cells is so called, as 



those of Euphorbia. 

 Tricuspidate, having three points. 

 Tridentate, having three teeth 

 Trifarious, arranged in triple rank or in three rows. 

 Trifoliate, having three leaflets. 

 Trifid, divided into three, or not to the base. 

 Trigonal, having three angles. 

 Trigynous, having three styles. 

 Trilocular, having three cells. 

 Tripetaloid, appearing as if furnished with three 



petals. 



Tripetalous, having three petals. 

 Tripinnale, thrice-pinnate. 

 Tripinnalifld, thrice pinnatifid. 

 Tri /ile-nened, three -nerved, and throwing out three 



side nerves a little above the base. 

 Triquetrous, having three sides or angles. 

 Triquetrously-Z-edged, having only two edges, the 



third being nearly obsolete. 

 Trisected, cut into three parts. 

 Trilernate, thrice ternate. 

 Triturated, reduced to powder by pounding. 

 Trochleate, twisted like a pully. 

 Trochleately-arched, twisted and arched. 

 Tropical, belonging to the torrid zone. 

 Truncate, blunt, as if cut off. 

 Truncately-obtuse, blunt, and as if cut off. 

 Truncately-triangular, cut off at end so as to give 



the leaf a triangular figure. 

 Tube of stamens or staminiferous tube, the tube 



formed from the cohesion of the filaments in 



monadelphous flowers is so called. 

 Tube of calyx, the tube formed from the cohesion 



of the sepals. 

 Tubercled, \ 



Tullr^tl'd, } Covered with knots or tubercles. 



Tubercular, J 



Tuberculately-hairy, covered with stiff short hairs 



resembling tubercles. 

 Tuberous, bearing fleshy, solid, roundish or longish 



roots, like the potatoe. 

 Tubers, roots so called, potatoes. 

 Tubular, forming a tube. 

 Tufted, forming a dense tuft. 

 Tumid, swelling. 

 Tunic, a coat, a seed cover. 

 Tunicated, having a coat or coats. 

 Turbinate \ h . A fi of a 

 Turbinated, J 

 Turbinately-globose, between the form of a top and 



a globe. 

 Turgid, swollen, puffed up. 



U. 



Umbellulate, disposed in small umbels. 



Umbellate, having the flowers in round flat heads, 



the peduncles originating from a common centre, 



as in the carrot. 

 Umbellately-branched, branched in an umbellate 



manner. 



Umbelliferous, bearing umbels. 

 Umbellules, \ small umbels, the divisions of an 

 Umbellets, / umbel. 

 Umbels, the flat tuft of flowers produced by a 



carrot, the peduncles and pedicels always rising 



from a common centre. 

 Umbilical, of or belonging to the umbilicus. 



Umbilicus, the cord which attaches the seed to the 

 placenta. 



Umbonate, having a top in the centre like that of 

 the ancient shield. 



Unarmed, destitute of prickles or spines, which are 

 called the arms of plants. 



Unappendiculate or inappendiculate, without appen- 

 dages of any kind. 



Uncinate, hooked. 



Uncinately-inflexed, hooked inwards. 



Unctuous, fat, oily. 



^"5!% 1 waved, rising and falling. 

 Undulated, ) 



Undulately-crenated, crenated and waved. 



Undulately-curled, curled and waved. 



Undulately-riigose, \ rugged or wrinkled and 



Undulately-wrinkled, ) waved. 



Unequal, when applied to petals or sepals, indicates 

 that they are of unequal size and shape. 



Unequal-sided, having unequal sides. 



Unguiculate, \ furnighed with claws or an unguis . 



Ungmculatea, ) 



Unguis, the taper-base of a petal or any thing else. 



Unilabiate, having only one lip. 



Unilateral, one-sided, or leaning to one side. 



Unilocular, having one cell. 



Unisexual, being of one sex. 



Urceolar, of or belonging to an urceolus, having an 

 urceolus, or expanded into an urceolus ; usually 

 applied to the disk. 



Urceolate, pitcher-shaped. 



Urceolus, the filaments may be joined into a pitcher- 

 shaped body, this is called the urceolus of the 

 stamens, or they may be surrounded by a pitcher- 

 shaped membrane, this is also called an urceolus. 



Ustulate, blackened. 



Uterine, belonging to the womb. 



Uterus, the womb. 



Utricle, a little bottle or bladder. 



Utricular, composed of little bladders. 



V. 



Valvate, opening like valves. 

 Valvately-connate, joined like valves. 

 Valvaform, form of a valve. 

 Valveless, without valves. 

 Valvular, consisting of valves. 

 Valvular-dissepiments, having dissepiments or par- 

 titions in the centre of the valves. 

 halves, the divisions of a capsule.* 

 halved, having valves. 



Varicose, swollen here and there. 



Vascular, composed of tubes or vessels. 



Vaulted, formed or placed like the roof of a vault. 



Veinless, without veins. 



Velvety, covered with down like velvet. 



Velvety-puberulous, covered with velvety down. 



Velvety-pubescent, covered with soft, pressed down, 

 like velvet. 



Velvety-tomentose, covered with soft tomentum like 

 velvet. 



Veneering, the art of covering one kind of wood 

 with thin plates of another kind. 



Ventricose, inflated. 



Vermicular, having the appearance of a worm. 



Vermifuge, that which expels worms. 



Vernacular, native. 



Vernal, belonging to the spring. 



Versatile, swinging lightly on a stalk, so as to be 

 continually changing direction. 



Vertex, the uppermost point 



Vertical, perpendicular. 



Vertically-compressed, that is depressed. 



Verticillate, disposed in a whorl. 



Vertilinear, the same as rectilinear. 



Vesicatories, blistering plasters. 



Vesicles, hollow excrescences, resembling bladders. 



Vexillum, standard, the upper petal of a pea-flower. 



Villi, long, close, rather soft hairs. 



Villous, covered with soft, close, long, loose hairs. 



Villously -ciliated, ciliated with soft hairs. 



Villously-cinereous, covered with grey, soft, long 

 loose hairs. 



Villously-hairy, covered with soft hairs. 



Villously-pubescent, covered with soft long pubes- 

 cence. 



Villously-tomentose, covered with soft long tomentum. 



Violaceous, the colour of a violet. 



Virescent, greenish. 



Viscid, )-,-> i 



Viscous, {adhesive, clammy. 



Viviparous, bearing young plants in the place of 



flowers and seed. 



Vulnerary, useful in the cure of wounds. 

 Vulviform, like a cleft with projecting edges. 



W. 



Warted, covered with protuberances like warts. 

 Wattled, having processes like the wattles of a 



cock. 



Wavy, undulated. 

 Waved, having wavy edges. 



Wltite- velvety, covered with white down like velvet. 

 Whorled, disposed in whorls or whirls. 

 Whorls, leaves inserted round a stem, as those of 



Hippuris or Equisetum. 

 Wing, in botany, signifies a membranous border, 



wherewith many seeds are supported in the air> 



when floating from place to place. 

 Wings, the side petals of a pea-flower. 

 Wing-formed, having the form of a wing. 

 Winged, having a wing or wings. 

 Wrinkled, having an uneven surface. 



Z. 



Zonate, having a dark belt in the shape of a horse- 

 shoe, as in some species of Pelargonium. 



Zones, stripes or belts . 



Zigzag, a stem is called zigzag when it bends from 

 side to side. 



