GLOSSARY. 



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direction; from the zenith, or highest 

 point, directly downwards 



Vertical leaves. When they stand edge 

 up, or present their margins and not 

 their faces to the earth and sky; indic- 

 ative rather of Phyllodia, than of true 

 leaves. 



Verticil; a whorl ; flowers, leaves, or other 

 organs, arranged in a horizontal ring, 

 Around a stem, or at its summit. 



Verticilldnter. A spurious verticil ; a con- 

 densed cyme, or cluster resembling a 

 verticil, "as in many LABIATE. 



Verticillate; growing or arranged in a ver- 

 ticil, or whorl, or horizontal ring. 



Vesiclf*. Little bladder-like vessels. 



Vesicular, or veticulose; made of, or re 

 sembling, little bladders. 



Vespertine flowers. Those which expand 

 in the evening. 



Vexillum. The banner, or broad upper 

 petal of a papilionaceous corolla. 



Vtllose, or villous; velvety; clothed with 

 numerous, and rather long, soft hairs. 



Villm (plural, vitti). The velvet like pu- 

 bescence on a villous plant. 



Virescent; inclining to, or becoming, green. 



V'irgate; wand like; long, slender, and 

 straight. 



Viridescent; greenish. 



Viscid; clammy ; covered with a sticky or 

 adhesive moisture. 



Viscid pubescent; with a clammy pubes- 

 cence. 



Vittx Fillets ; linear receptacles of oily 

 matter on the carpels of Umbelliferous 

 plants. 



Viviparous; producing a collateral off- 

 spring by means of bulbs ; or having the 

 seeds to germinate before they are de- 

 tached from the parent plant. 



Volubile; ascending spirally, or climbing by 

 embracing another object. See Twining. 



Wavy; see undulate. 



Whorl; see verticil. 



Winged; having a thin, extended margin. 



Wings. The side petals of a papilionaceous 

 corolla ; also, the membranous expansion 

 at the summit or margin of certain peri- 

 carps, and on the sides of some petioles. 



Woolly; clothed with a long curled or mat- 

 ted pubescence, resembling wool. 



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