GLOSSARY. 



Valvate, Valvular: opening by valves. Valvate in aestivation. 



Vascular : containing vessels, or consisting of vessels, such as ducts. 



Vaulted: arched; same as fornicate. 



Veins: the small ribs or branches of the framework of leaves, &c. 



Veined, Veiny : furnished with evident veins. Veinless: destitute of veins. 



Veinlets : the smaller ramifications of veins. 



Velutinous: velvety to the touch. 



Venation : the veining of leaves, &c. 



Venose: veiny ; furnished with conspicuous veins. 



Ventral : belonging to that side of a simple pistil, or other organ, which 



looks towards the axis or centre of the flower; the opposite of dorsal ; 



as the 



Ventricose: inflated or swelled out on one side. 

 Vermicular: shaped like worms. 

 Vernation : the arrangement of the leaves in the bud. 

 Verrucose : warty ; beset with little projections like warts. 

 Versatile : attached by one point, so that it may swing to and fro, as the 



anthers of the Lily and Evening Primrose. 

 Vertex : same as the apex. 



Vertical : upright ; perpendicular to the horizon, lengthwise. 

 Verticil: a whorl. Verticillate : whorled. 

 Vesicle : a little bladder. Vesicular : bladdery. 

 Vexillary, Vexillar: relating to the 

 Vexillum : the standard of a papilionaceous flower. 

 Villose: shaggy witli long and soft hairs (villositi/). 



Vimineous : producing slender twigs, such as those used for wicker-work. 

 Vine: any trailing or climbing stem ; as a Grape-vine. 

 Virescent, Vir /descent: greenish ; turning green. 

 Virgate: wand-shaped, as a long, straight, and slender twig. 

 Viscous, Viscid: having a glutinous surface. 

 Vitta (plural vittce) : the oil-tubes of the fruit of Umbelliferse. 

 Vdfuble : twining, as the stem of Hops and Beans 



Wavy: the surface or margin alternately convex and concave. 

 Waxy: resembling beeswax in texture or appearance. 



Wedge-shaped: broad above, and tapering by straight lines to a narrow base. 

 Wheel-shaped: see rotate. 



Whorl, Whorled : when leaves, &c. are arranged in a circle round the stem. 

 Wing: any membranous expansion. Wings of papilionaceous flowers. 

 Winged: furnished with a wing; as the fruit of Ash and Elm. 

 Woolly : clothed with long and entangled soft hairs ; as the leaves of Mullein. 

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