GLOSSARY. 



Topical, local, confined to a place. 



Torrid, very hot, parched. 



Trituration, rubbing to powder, pul- 

 verizing. 



Trifid. Three-cleft. Trifoliate. Three- 

 leaved. Trilobate. Three-lobed. 

 Trilocular. Three-celled. 



Truncate. Having a square termina- 

 tion, as if cut off. 



Trunk. The stem or bole of a tree. 



Tube. Lower hollow cylinder of a 

 monopetalous corolla. 



Tuber. A solid fleshy knob. Tuber- 

 ous. Thick and fleshy, containing 

 tubers, as the potato. 



Tunicate. Coated with surrounding 

 layers, as in the onion. 



Ultimate, last, final. 



Umbel. A kind of inflorescence in 

 which the flower-stalks diverge from 

 a centre, like the sticks of an um- 

 brella. Umbelliferons. Bearing um- 

 bels. 



Uniflorus. One- flowered. Unicus. 

 Single. 



Vascular, composed of vessels. 

 Valves. Parts of a seed-vessel into 

 which it separates ; the leaves which 



form a glume, or spatha. 



Volatile, flying oft', evaporating, dis- 

 tinguished iromfixed or permanent. 



Variety. Subdivision of a species, dis- 

 tinguished by characters not perma- 

 nent. 



Vernal. Appearing in the springs. 



Verrucose. Warty, covered with pro- 

 tuberances, 



VerticiJMe. Whorled, having leaves 

 or flowers in a circle round the stem. 



Vesicular. Made up of cellular sub- 

 stance. 



Villose. Hairy, the hairs long and soft. 



Virose. Nauseous to the smell, poison- 

 ous. 



Viscid. Thick, glutinous, covered with 

 adhesive moisture. 



Volatile, flying off, evaporating, dis- 

 tinguished horn fixed or permanent. 



Wings. Two side petals of a papilio- 

 naceous flower. 



Zoophytes. Lowest order of animals, 

 sometimes called animal plants 

 though considered as belonging to 

 the animal kingdom. Many resem- 

 ble plants, and exhibit faint marks 

 of sensation. 



