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INDEX AND DICTIONARY OF BOTANICAL TERMS. 



Utricle : like an akene, but with a thin and loose 

 pericarp. 



Valves : tlie pieces into which a pod splits, or 

 by which an anther, &.c. opens, 80. 



Varieties, 93. 



Vegetable Kingdom, 2. 



Vegetation, 6, 89. 



Veining of leaves, 44. 



Veinlets, 44. 



Veins, 44. 



Veiny : full of veins. 



Velvety : clothed with a coat of soft and fine 

 hairs, like the pile of velvet. 



Vertical : upright, or in the direction of the 

 length of a thing. 



Verticillate ; same as whorled. 



Villous, or Villose : hairy with long and soft 



shaggy hairs. 

 Viscid, or Viscous : glutinous. 



"Wavy, 42. 



Wedge-shaped, 47. 



Wheel-shaped, 72. 



Whorl, 54. 



Whorled, 54. 



Winged : furnished with a broad and thin ap- 

 pendage or wing-like border of any kind, as 

 the seeds of Trumpet-Creeper (Fig. 228), or 

 the fruit of Maple, Ash, and Elm (Fig. 206 

 -208). 



Wood, 41. 



Woolly : clothed with a coat of long and entan- 

 gled soft hairs, like wool. 



