GLOSSARY. 



Tritemate: three times ternate. 



Trumpet-shaped : tubiolar, enlarged at or towards the summit, as the corolla 



of Trumpet-Creeper. 

 Truncate : as if cut off at the top. 



Trunk: the main stem or general body of a stem or tree. 

 Tuber: a thickened portion of a subterranean stem or brancli, provided with 



eyes (buds) on the sides ; as a potato. 

 Tiibercle : a small excrescence. 



Tubercled, or Tuberculate: bearing excrescences or pimples. 

 Tuberous: resembling a tuber. Tuberiferous : bearing tubers. 

 Tubular: hollow and of an elongated form; hollowed like a pipe. 

 Tumid: swollen; somewhat inflated. 

 Tunicate: coated; invested with layers, as an onion. 

 Turbinate: top-shaped. Turgid: thick as if swollen. 

 Tumip-sftaped : broader than high, abruptly narrowed belovr. 

 Twin: in pairs {see geminate). 



Twining: ascending by coiling round a support, like the Hop. 

 Typical : well expressing the characteristics of a species, genus, &c. 



tJmbel: the umbrella-like form of inflorescence. 



Umbellate : in umbels. UmbelHferous : bearing umbels. 



tJmbellet: a secondary or partial umbel. 



Umbdicate: depressed in the centre, like the ends of an apple. 



tJmbonate: bossed; furnished with a low, rounded projection like a boss 



{umbo). 

 Unarmed: destitute of spines, prickles, and the like, 

 t/ncwate; hook-shaped ; hooked over at the end. 

 Under-shrub : partially shrubby, or a very low shrub. 

 tJndulate: wavy, or wavy-margined. 



Unequally pinnate : pinnate with an odd number of leaflets. 

 Ungufculate: furnished with a claw {unguis); i. e. a narrow base, as the 



petals of a Rose, where the claw is very short, and those of Pinks, 



where tlie claw is very long. 

 Uni-t in compound words : one ; as 

 UniJUfrous: one-flowered. Unifdliate: one-leaved. 

 Unifdliolafe: of one leaflet. Unijugate: of one pair. 

 Unildbiate: one-lipped. Unilateral: one-sided. 

 Unildcidar: one-celled. 

 Unidvulate : having only one ovnle. 

 Uniserial: in one horizontal row. 



Unisexual: having stamens or pistils only, as in Moonseed. 

 tfnwahed: a pod of only one piece after dehiscence. 

 Urceolate: urn-shaped. 



tJtricle: a small, thin-walled, one-seeded fruit, as of Goosefoot 

 Utricular : like a small bladder. 



Vdgiruxte: sheathed, surrounded by a sheath {vagina) 



Valve: one of the pieces (or doors) into which a dehiscent pod, oi any simi- 

 lar body, splits. 



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