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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 physiology, 3. 



Vegetable kingdom, variety of, 13. 



Vegetation, its din usiou, 14. a. 



Veins, 228. 



Veinlets, 228. Veinulets, 228. 



Velvety ; clothed with a dense, soft pub 



escence. 

 Venation, 2Q6. 

 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. 

 Vittae ; receptacles or 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. 

 test, estivation. 

 alter, alternate. 

 amplex. amplexicaul. 

 anth. anther. 

 axilL axillary. 

 cal. calyx. 

 caps, capsule. 

 cor, corolla. 

 decid. deciduous. 

 diam. diameter. 

 ellip. elliptical. 

 emarg. emarginate. 

 epig. epigynous. 

 / or ft. feet. 



fl. filaments. 



fl. flower ; fls. flowers. 



fr. fruit. 



lid. head ; hds. heads. 



hyp. hypogynous. 



imbr. imbricate. 



inf. inferior. 



invol. involucre. 



irreg. irregular. 



leg. legume. 



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. 

 stig. stigmas. 

 sty. styles. 



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

 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 use: 



An annual plant. 

 . A biennial plant. 



1| A perennial herb. 



h A plant with a woody stem. 



d 1 A staminate flower or plant. 



9 A pistillate flower or plant. 



