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GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 



Valvate or valvular .•estivation, &c. : 



where the parts meet by their edges 



without overlapping, 144, 273. 

 Valve-: a door, or portion into which a 



pod, &c. separates in dehiscence ; 



also a piece or leaf of a spathc, &c. 

 Valued : opening by valves. 

 Vanilla, 489. 

 Variegated: having one or two colors 



disposed in patches. 

 Varieties, 355. 

 Vascular ; relating to or furnished with 



vessels. 

 Vascular Plants, G8. 

 Vascular or vasiform tissue, 40, 45. 

 Vasculum: same as Ascidimn. 

 Vegetable Ivory, 4S4. 

 Vegetable Physiology and Anatomy, 



14. 

 Veil : see Calyptra. 

 Veined : furnished with slender vascular 



or woody bundles, especially with 



branching ones, or 

 Veins, 145, 155. 



Vein/ess: destitute of apparent veins. 

 Veinlets : the smaller lamitications of 



veins, 155. 

 Velate: veiled. 

 Velutinous : velvety ; covered with very 



fine and close soft hairs, so that 



the surface resembles velvet to the 



touch. 

 Venation: the mode of vcining, 154. 

 Venose: veiny ; abounding in veins. 

 Ventral: relating to the inner side of a 



simple pistil, viz. that next the 



axis. 

 Ventral suture : the inner suture, 289. 

 Ve'nhicose: big-bellied; swelling out. 

 Vent) iculose : somewhat ventricosc. 

 Ve'nu/ose : abounding in veinlets. 

 Vcratria, 494. 

 Verbenacerc, 449. 



Vermicular : worm-like, in shape or ap- 

 pearance. 

 Vernal : belonging to spring. 

 Vernation: the disposition of leaves in 



the bud, 143. 

 Ve'micose : varnished. 

 Ve'rrucose: warty. 



Ve'rruculose : studded with little warts. 

 Ve'rsatde: swinging to and fro; 282, 



fig. 471. 

 Vertex : the summit. 

 Ve'rticaf : perpendicular, lengthwise. 

 Vet deal leaves, 165. 

 Vettical tissue or system, 45, 50, 112. 

 Ve'rticil, or v&ticel: a whorl, 92, 134. 

 Verticilldster : the pair of dense cymes 

 forming an apparent verticil in 



most Labiatse, 221. 

 Verticillate : whorled, 133, 142, 221. 



Vesicle: a little bladder. 



Vesicular: as if composed of little blad- 

 deis. 



Vespertine: appearing or expanding in 

 the early evening. 



Vessels, 40. 



Ve'tUtarg aestivation, 271. 



Vecillaij: pertaining to the 



Vadium: the standard of a papiliona- 

 ceous corolla ; 253, fig. 392, a. 



Vtllose, ovvillous : shaggy with long and 

 soft hairs, or villosity. 



Vimineous : bearing or resembling long 

 and flexible twigs, like wicker. 



Vine: any trailing, climbing, or twining 

 stem. The Vine, originally, is the 

 Grape-vine. 



ViolacctE, or Violarieap, 392. 



Virescent: somewhat green (virens). 



Vtajate: twig-like; wand-like. 



Vnidescent : same as Virescent. 



Viscid, viscous: sticky from a tena- 

 cious secretion. 



Vitaccae, 407. 



Vtle'dus : the thickened embryo-sac per- 

 sistent in the seed, as in Saururus 

 and Biascnia. 



Viticulose: producing small suckers or 

 stolons (viticulte). 



Vitt(e (fillets) : the oil-receptacles of the 

 fruit of Umbclliferac, 426. 



Vitiate: bearing vittse : marked with 

 longitudinal stripes or fillets, 

 426. 



Viviparous : germinating from the seed 

 (330), or sprouting from a bulb, 

 &c, while still attached to tho 

 parent plant. 



Voluble: twining, 102. 



Volute : rolled up. 



Volca : the wrapper of Fungi, 507. 



Walnut, 476. 



Wavy: see Undulate. 



Wax, 56. 



Waxy : resembling beeswax in appear- 

 ance or consistence. 



Wedi/e-shaped: see Cuncate. 



Wheat, 498. 



Wheel-shaped : a corolla or calyx with 

 a very short tube and a flat- 

 spreading border; 278, fig. 454. 



Whorl. : a set of organs arranged in a 

 circle round an axis, 92, 134, 

 221. 



Whoi led: disposed in whorls. 



Whortleberry, 439. 



Wild: growing spontaneously. 



Wing: any membranous expansion. 

 Also the two side petals of a pa- 

 pilionaceous corolla ; 253, fig. 

 392, b. 



