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Tuberous ; like a tuber, but not part of the stem. 



Tubular ; hollow and nearly cylindrical. 



Tumid, swollen. 



Turbinate ; topshaped, conical, and attached by its long point. 



Two-edged ; compressed so as to have two sharp edges. 



Umbel ; when many stalked flowers spring from one point and 



reach about the same level. Partial umbels are umbels 



seated upon the branches of an umbel, when the umbel 



forms a compound umbel. 

 Umbilicate ; peltate, but having the attached organ hollo wed to 



receive the top of the stalk. 

 Unilateral ; turned to one side. 

 Upper part of a floral whorl ; that next the main axis of the 



stem ; posterior. 



Urceohite ; like a pitcher contracted at the mouth. 

 Utricle ; a bladder-like covering as in Chenopodiacea, i. e. an 



achene with a membranous pericarp. The envelope of 



the nut of Carex. 



Vahate ; having valves or parts of an organ opening like little 

 doors ; or organs touching only along their edges. 



Veins ; bundles of vessels in leaves and their modifications. 



Ventricose ; swelling unequally on one side. 



Vernation the arrangement of leaves in a bud. 



Versatile ; swinging freely on its support, as an anther attached 

 by one point of its back. 



Villose ; shaggy with loose long soft hair. 



Viscous] clammy. 



Vitta ; linear receptacles of oil in the fruits of Umbellifers ; 

 stripes. 



Viviparous ; bearing young plants in the place of flowers. 



Wedgeshaped ; like a wedge, but attached by its point. 



Whorl ; formed of similar organs arranged in a circle round an 



axis. 



Whorled ; arranged in whorls. 



Winged^ having leaflike or membranous expansions. 

 Wings ; the lateral petals of a Pea-flower ; the flat membranous 



appendages of some seeds. 



When two terms are combined, as ovate-lanceolate, it means 

 that the form or structure is compounded of the two, or lies 

 between then. 



