236 GLOSSARY. 



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



Veinlets : the smaller ramifications of veins. 



Velate : furnished with a veil. 



Velutinous : velvety to the touch. 



Venation : the veining of leaves, &c. ; p. 55. 



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 

 Ventral Suture, p. 117. 



Ve'ntricose : inflated or swelled out on one side. 

 Venulose : furnished with veinlets. 

 Vermicular : shaped like worms. 



Vernation : the arrangement of the leaves in the bud ; p. 75. 

 Ve'rnicose : the surface appearing as if varnished. 

 Ve'micose : 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 ; p. 113, fig. 234. 

 Vertex : same as the apex. 



Vertical, : upright ; perpendicular to the horizon, lengthwise. 

 Verticil: a whorl ; p. 71. Verticillate : whorled; p. 71, 75, fig. 148. 

 Vesicle: a little bladder. Embryonal Vesicle, p. 139. Vesicular: bladdery. 

 Vessels: ducts, &c. ; p. 146, 148. 

 Ve'xillary, Vexillar: relating to the 



Vexillum: the standard of a papilionaceous flower; p. 105, fig. 218, . 

 Villose: shaggy with long and soft hairs (villosity.) 



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

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

 Vire'scent, Viridescent : 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 Umbelliferae. 

 Vduble: twining, as the stem of Hops and Beans ; p. 37. 



Wavy : the surface or margin alternately convex and concave ; p. 62. 



Waxy : resembling beeswax in texture or appearance. 



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



p. 58, fig. 94. 



Wheel-shaped: see rotate; p. 102, fig. 204, 205. 

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



p. 71, 75, fig. 148. 



Wing: any membranous expansion. Wings of papilionaceous flowers, p. 105 

 Winged: furnished with a wing; as the fruit of Ash and Elm, fig. 300, 301. 

 Wood, p. 145. Woody: of the texture or consisting of wood. 

 Woody Fibre, or Wood-Cells, p. 146. 

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



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