226 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 



Venult'se, furnished with veiiilcts. 



Vermicular, wonn-liiie, shaped like worms. 



\'ernnl, bekniging to spriii},^ 



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



Vernlcose, the surface appearing as if varnished. 



Ve7-rucnse, 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, 08. 



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



Vesicular, bladdery. 



Vespertine, appearing or expanding at evening. 



Vessels, ducts, &c., 134. 



Veonllary, 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, any trailing or climbing stem; as a Grape-vine. 



Viresccnt, V iridescent, gremKh; turning green. 



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



Viscous, Viscid, having a glutinous surtace. 



Vitta (plural vittm), the oil-tubes of the fruit of Umbellifera;. 



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



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



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



Volute, rolled up in any way. 



]Vari/, the surface or margin alternately convex and concave, 55. 



Waxy, resembling beeswax in texture or appearance. 



IVedf/e-shiiped, 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 tlowers, 92. 



Winged, furnished with a wing; as the fruit of Ash and Kim, lig. 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 m comixiunds; as Xanthocarpus, yellow-fruited. 



Zygomorphoits, said of a flower which can be bisected only in one plane into similai 

 halves. 



