Ur-tic-a’-06-20 
u’-til-is 
u’-til-is’-sim-a 
Ut-ler’-i-a 
U-va'-ri-a 
u- vif’-er-a 
Vac-ci -ni-a-ae-2 
Vac-ci’-ni-um 
yag-i’-naus 
vag-i’-na’-ta 
vag’-um 
Vahl-i-a’-na . 
Vahl’ i-i 
Val-la’-ris_... 
val-va/-ris 
val-va/’-ta 
Van -da 
Van-del’: li-a’-na 
Van-den-heck’-e-i 
Van-gue’-ri’-a 
Van-il -la 
Van-volx-em -i-i 
var-1-a/-bil-is 
var’-i-eg-a’-ta 
vas-cul-a’-ris 
va -sic-a 
va-sul-a’-ris . 
Va-te’-ri-a 
Va’-tic-a 
Veitch-i-ana... 
Veitch’-1-i 
vel-u-ti -n-a 
ven-e-na-ta 
Venetil-a’-go 
ven-tric-0’-sus 
ven-ul-o’-sum 
ven-u]-o-so-hi-no-i’- 
de-us. 
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PRONUNCIATION AND DERIVATION. 103 
(Latin), Nettle (Urtica [from wrtico (Latin) to sting; (all:) 
property of the hairs of the plant |) Family, or Order ; 
(Latin), wseful ; 
(Latin), very useful ; 
attalari (Tamil), jungle beauty (or oleander) ; name of the 
lant ; 
ae (Latin), cluster of grapes ; (all :) fruits of some species, 
(N. 4/128) ; 
(Latin), grape bearing, or fruit resembling grapes ; 
(Latin), Bilberry (Vaccinium) Family, or Order ; 
(Latin), name used by Pliny and Virgil (N, 4/128) ; one of the 
lines of the latter quoting, “‘vaccinia nigra ceguntur,” 
showing the in the second syllable long, not short as some- 
times made (N. 4/335) ; 
(Latin), sheathing, surrounding the stem, or other body, by 
the convolute base ; 
(Latin), sheathed ; 
(Latin), wandering, diffuse ; having no particular direction ; 
(com.) of M. Vahl [(pr:) Val] author of “ Symbolz botanic- 
we,’ “Knumeratio Plantarum,” 1865, and co-author, with 
Mueller and Hornemann of * Flora danica,’”’ 1761—1829 ; 
Vallo (Latin), to enclose ; (all:) use in Japan for fencing; 
doubtful (N. 4/132) ; 
(Latin), valvate, applied to each other by the margins only ; 
Vanda (Sanskrit), adoring (whence parasitic) ; (all:) nature of 
the plant (McL. 328) ; 
(com.) of Dominico Vandelli [(pr:) Doe-mee-nee-coe Varn- 
dail-lee |. Professor of botany at Lishon, Portugal, and wrote, 
in 1623 a work on Portuguese plants (N. 4/136) ; 
(com.) of Vandenheck, Dutch traveller in Brazil (N. 1/238) ; 
Voa-vanguer (Madagascar), name of the plant (N. 4/136) ; 
Vanilla (Spanish), little sheath; (all:) shape of the fruit 
(N.. 4/187) ; 
(com.) of Van Volxem, Datch traveller in New Grenada ; 
(Latin), variable ; 
(Latin), variegated, with patches of a different colour, vagal 
in various irregular sinuous spaces, but sometimes adopted 
for any variation of different colouring (H.) ; 
(Latin), vascular, consisting of vessels, or membranous tubes 
tapering to each end either having a fibre generated spirally 
in side, or having their walls marked by transverse bars, 
arranged more or ‘less in a spiral direction ; 
vdsaka (Sanskrit), perfumed ;(all:) aromatic scent, name of 
the plant, (McL. 6) ; 
(Latin), vase shaped, like a flower-pot, or invested truncate 
cone ; 
(com.) Abraham Vater { (pr:) Far-tair], 
18th century ; 
vaticus (Latin), pertaining to the prophet; (all:) originally 
applied to white dammer (Vateria), which is used as incense 
for religious rites ; 
German botanist of tha 
.. 1 (com.) of James Veiteh and Sons, celebrated floriculturalists, 
Chelsea, near London (N. 5/189) ; 
(Latin), velvetty, densely covered with soft short silky straight 
hairs (H.) ; 
(Latin), poisonous. 
ventilo (Latin), to be exposed to the wind ; (all :) linear wings at 
the upper part of the frait (N. 4/141) ; 
(Latin), bellying, swelling unequally on one side ; 
(Latin), full of veinlets (H.) ; 
(Latin), when the veins of a leaf all proceed from the midrib, 
are parallel, undivided, and connected by little cross-veins. 
