340 GLOSSARY. 



Tuberosa/r#6&r,a tuberous or knobbed root. 



Tubulatum pefiursthium, tubular flowers, as in the class Di- 

 dyna'ma. 



Tubu^si Jlosc-ul?) tubular florets nearly equal, one of the 

 thr^e divisions of compound flowers. 



Tubus, a tube, the lower and narrower part of a monopeta- 

 lous flower. 



Tunicatus radix , a species of bulbous root, having coats ly- 

 ing over one another, from the centre to the surface, as ill 

 the onion, tulip, &c. 



Turbinatum pericarpiwn, a kind of pod, shaped like a top, 

 narrow at the base, and broad at the apex. 



Turgidum legumen, swoln, puffed out, as in Ononis. 



Turio, the young buds or shoots of Pines. 



Vaginales, sheathed, an order of plants in the Fragmenta me- 



thodi naturalis of Linnaeus. 

 Vaginansyb/JMW, a leaf like a sheath f whose base infolds the 



stem. 

 Valvula, a valve, a partition of the external cover of that sort 



of pericarpium called capsula. 

 Vegetabilia, one of the three kingdoms of nature. 

 Veuosum folium, the veins which run over the whole surface 



of a leaf. 

 Ventricosa spica, a spike narrowing at each extremity, and 



bellying out in the middle. 

 Ventriculosus calyx, a flower-cup bellying out in the middle, 



but not in so great a degree as ventricosus. 

 Vepreculae, a briar or bramble, an order of plants in the 



Fragmenta methodi naturalis of Linnaeus. 

 Vematio, that period of vegetation when the buds of trees 



unfold their leaves. 

 Verrucosa capsula, a capsule having little knobs, or warts on 



its surface. 

 Versatilis anthera, when the anthera is fixed by the middle 



on the point of the filament, and so poised as to turn like 



the needle of a compass. 



Verticalia folia, leaves so situated that their base is perpen- 

 dicular above the apex. 

 Verticillati rami, Jlores, folia, branches, flowers, or leaves, 



uuiounding the stem, like the rays of a wheel. 



Verticillatae, 



