244 EUCALYPTUS. 



Ventricose : inflated or swelled out on one side. 



Venulose : furnished with veinlets. 



Vermicular : shaped like worms. 



Vernation : the arrangement of the leaves in the bud. 



Vernicose : the surface appearing as if varnished. 



Verruca se : 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 I/ily and Kvening Primrose. 

 Vertex : same as the apex. 



Vertical: upright; perpendicular to the horizon, lengthwise. 

 Verticil : a whorl. Verticillate : whorled. 

 Vesicle : a little bladder. Vesicular : bladdery. 

 Vexillary, Vexillar : relating to the 

 Vexillum : the standard of a papilionaceous flower. 

 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. 

 Virescent, Vir ide scent : 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. 

 Voluble : twining, as the stem of Hops and Beans. 



Wavy: the surface or margin alternately convex and concave. 



Waxy: resembling beeswax in texture or appearance. 



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



base. 



Wheel-shaped : see rotate. 

 Whorl, Whorled: when leaves, etc., are arranged in a circle round the 



stem. 



Wing: any membranous expansion. 



Winged: furnished with a wing; as the fruit of Ash and Kim. 

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

 Woolly: clothed with long and entangled soft hairs: as the leaves of 



Mullein. 



