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Tubuliflorous, bearing only tabular flowers. 



Tunicate, coated; invested with layers, as an onion, 46. 



Turbinate, top-shaped. 



Turio (plural turiones), strong young shoots or suckers springing out of the ground 



as Asparagus-shoots. 



Turnip-shaped, broader than high, abruptly narrowed below, 36. 

 Twining, ascending by coiling round a support, 39. 

 Type, the ideal pattern, 10. 

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



Uliginose, growing in swamps. 



Umbel, the umbrella-like form of inflorescence, 74. 



Umbellate, in umbels. Umbelliferous, bearing umbels. 



Umbellet (umbellula), a secondary or partial umbel, 76. 



Umbilicate, depressed in the centre, like the ends of an apple ; with a navel. 



Umbonate, bossed; furnished with a low, rounded projection like a boss (umbo) 



Umbraculiform, umbrella-shaped. 



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



Uncial, an inch (uncia) in length. 



Uncinate, or Uncate, hook-shaped ; hooked over at the end. 



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



Undulate, or Undate, wavy, or wavy-margined, 55. 



Unequally pinnate, pinnate with an odd number of leaflets, 66. 



Unguiculate, furnished with a claw (unguis), 91. 



Uni-, in compound words, one; as Unicellular, one-celled. 



Uniflorous, one-flowered. Unifoliate, one-leaved. 



Unifoliolate, of one leaflet, 59. Unijugate, of one pair. 



Unilabiate, one-lipped. Unilateral, one-sided. 



Unilocular, one-celled. Uniovulate, having only one ovule. 



Uniserial, in one horizontal row. 



Unisexual, having stamens or pistils only, 85. 



Univalved, a pod of only one piece after dehiscence. 



Unsymmetrical Flowers, 86. 



Urceolate, urn-shaped. 



Utricle, a small thin-walled, one-seeded fruit, as of Goosefoot, 121. 



Utricular, like a small bladder. 



Vaginate, sheathed, surrounded by a sheath (vagina). 



Valve, one of the pieces (or doors) into which a dehiscent pod, or any similar body 

 splits, 122, 123. 



Valvate, Valvular, opening by valves. Vahate, in aestivation, 97. 



Variety, 176. 



Vascular, containing vessels, or consisting of vessels or ducts, 134. 



Vascular Cryptogams, 156. 



Vaulted, arched ; same as fornicate. 



Vegetable Life, &c., 128. Vegetable anatomy, 129. 



Veins, the small ribs or branches of the framework of leaves, &c., 49, 50. 



Veined, Veiny, furnished with evident veins. Veinless, destitute of veins. 



Veinhts, the smaller ramifications of veins, 60. 



Velate. furnished with a veil. 



Velutinous, velvety to the touch. 



Venation, the veining of leaves, &c., 50, 



Venenate, poisonous. 



Venose, veiny ; furnished with conspicuous veins. 



Ventral, belonging to that side of a simple pistil, or other organ, which looks to- 

 wards the axis or centre of the flower; the opposite of dorsal; as the 



Ventral Suture, 106. 



Ventricose, inflated or swelled out on one side. 

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