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INDEX AND GLOSSARY. 



Tube, 103. 



Tuber, ISO. 



Tuberiferous ; bearing tubers. 



Tuberous, 147. 



Tubular, 103. 



Tunicated, 178, a. 



Turbinate ; shaped like a top. 



Turgid ; swollen. 



Umbel, 302, a. 



Umbellet, 305, a. 



Umbilicate ; depressed in the centre. 



Unarmed, 235, 7. 



Uncinate ; hooked at the end. 



Undulate ; wavy. 



Unquis ; the claw, as of a petal. 



Unilateral ; one-sided. 



Utricle, 116, 8. 



Valvate, 108, 1. 

 Valves, 115. 

 Varieties, 51. 

 Vascular tissue, 33. 

 Vasculares, 47. 

 Vasiform tissue, 32. 



Vegetable kingdom, variety of, 13. 



Vegetation, its diffusion, 14, a. 



Veins, 228. 



Veinlets, 228. Veinulets, 228. 



Velvety ; clothed with a dense, soft pub- 

 escence. 



Venation, 226. 



Ventral, 84. 



Vernation, 216. 



Verticillaster, 309. 



Verticillate, 218, 4. 



Vescicular; bladdery. 



Vexillary, 108, 6. 



Vexillum, 105, 5. 



Villose ; villous : clothed with long hairs. 



Vine, 187. 



Viscid ; clammy, sticky. 



Vittas ; receptacles of secretion in the 

 seed of Umbelliferse. 



Whorled, 175. 



Winged, 222, 2. 



Wood, 201, 202. 



Woody tissue, or fibre, 30. 



ABBREVIATIONS AND SIGNS, 



OFTEN USED IN DESCRIPTIVE BOTANY. 



ach. achenia. 

 cest. aestivation. 

 alter, alternate. 

 amplex. amplexicauL 

 anth. anther. 

 axill. axillary. 

 caL calyx. 

 caps, capsule. 

 cor. corolla. 

 decid. deciduous. 

 diam. diameter. 

 ellip. elliptical. 

 emarg. emarginate. 

 epig. enigynous. 

 /. or ft. feet. 



fil. filaments. 



fl. flower ; fls. flowers. 



fr. fruit. 



ltd. head ; hds. heads. 



hyp, hypogynous. 



imbr. imbricate. 



inf. inferior. 



invol. involucre. 



irreg. irregular. 



leg. legume. 



7 / 1 /? 7 



If. leaf; Ivs. leaves. 

 Ifts. leaflets. 

 lorn, loment. 

 opp. opposite. 

 ova. ovary. 



ped. peduncle. 

 pet. petals. 

 perig. perigynous. 

 perig. perigynium. 

 recep. receptacle. 

 reg. regular. 

 rkiz. rhizoma. 

 rt. root. 

 sds. seeds. 

 seg. segments. 

 sep. sepals. 

 st. stem. 

 sta. stamens. 

 sti.g. stigmas. 

 sty. styles. 



The names of the months, and of states and countries, are often abbreviated, and 

 always in the same manner as in other works ; thus, Apr. April ; Jn. June ; Mass. 

 Massachusetts ; N. Y. New York ; la. or Ind., Indiana, &c. 



The following Signs are also in general iise : 



fAn annual plant. 

 A biennial plant. 

 A perennial herb. 

 h A plant with a woody stem. 

 A staminate flower or plant, 

 it. 



