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104, PRONUNCIATION AND DERIVATION. 
ven-us -tus ... (Latin), beautiful ; 
ve’-ra ths .-» (Latin) true ; 
ver-bas’-cif-ol’-i-a_ ... (Latin), with leaves like the Mullein (Verbascum) ; 
Ver-ber-na’-cé-ze .... (Latin), Vervein (Verbena) Family, or Order ; 
ver-mic-ul-a’-ris ... | (Latin), worm shaped, thick and almost cylindrica], but bet in 
ver-mif-or’-mis | different places ; 
ver-nic-if -er-a ... (Latin), producing varnish ; 
Ver-non’-i-a ... ... (com.) William Vernon, a botanical traveller in North America 
(N. 2/147) ; 
Ver-on-i'-ca ... we (1) hiera, etkon (Greek), Sacred image; (al/:) sacred handker- 
chief of St. Veronica (N. 4/14) ; : 
(2) Beronike (Greek), the medical work being probably a Latin 
form ; many other derivations have been ascribed, such as 
(3) Viroo ntkoo (Arabic) ; beautiful remembrance. Withering says 
quaintly, ‘‘In Veronica, the ni is to be the accented syllable 
and not the ro, which isa common error; Lindley, Hooker, 
etc., persist in the common error” (N. 4/355) : 
ver-ru-ce’-sa ... (Latin), waretd, covered with wart-like excrescences (EL.) ; 
ver-sa-ti’-lis .. (Latin), versatile, adhering slightly by the middle, so that the 
two halves are nearly equally balanced, and swing backwards 
and forwards ; 
Versch-aff-elt’-i ... (com.) of Ambrostus Verchaffelt [(pr:) Fair-sharf-felt] who 
wrote a work on ‘‘ Camellias” (N. 4/140). 
ver-sic’-ol-or ... ... (Latin), of many tints or colours (F.) ; 
ver’-tic-cil-la’-ta ... (Latin), whorled, arranged in a circle in the transverse plane 
around an axis (H.) ; 
ver-tic-a’-lis ... .. (Latin), vertical, at right angles to some other body ; 
ve-si-ca -ri-a ... ... (Latin), causing blisters ; the two first syllables are long, but 
often wrongly pronounced short (N. 1/335) ; 
vex-il-la’-ris ... (Latin), vexillary, when one piece is much larger than the 
others, and is folded over them, they being arranged face to 
face, as the standard petal over the wings in papilionaceous 
flowers ; 
vi-bur’-no-i-des ... (quasi-Greek), resembling Viburnum ; 
Vi-bur’-num * ... (Latin), name used by Virgil and others (N. 1/155) ; 
Vic-to’-ri-n... ... (com.) of Queen Victoria, late of Great Britain , 
Vi'-gna hae ... (com.) Dominic Vigni [(pr: Veen-yee], Professor at Padua in 
Italy. who wrote a commentary on Theophrastus in 1625 
(N. 1/157) ; 
Vil’-leb-ru’-ni-a ... (com.) Villebrum [(pr: Vee-yay brurng], French botanist ; 
vil-lo’-sa ee ... (Latin), villous, clothed with long soft hairs (not short as when 
pubescent, nor interwoven as when tomentose) (H.) shaggy ; 
vi-min-a’ -lis ... (Latin), pertaining to osters (Salix), or (like them) twiggy ; 
Vin’-ca Bey ... (Latin), name used by Pliny (N. 1/160); connected with vincto 
(Latin), to bind ; 
vin-cze-fol’-i-a ... (Latin), with leaves like the Periwinkle (Vinca) ; 
Vi-nif’-er-a ... ... (Latin), wine producing ; 
Vi-ol.a’-cé-a ... (Latin), violet, pure indigo blue stained with pure red (crimson) 
so as to be two-thirds way (i.e., nearer the blue) intermediate 
between the two colours; with a tinge of white it forms 
Heliotrope colour ; 
Vi-oi-a'-ce-ve ... (Latin), Violet (Viola) Family, or Order ; 
Eis inet 3 (Latin), pea-green, a clear green with just a touch of yellow ; 
vir-ga’-ta ioe ... (Latin), virgate, long, slender, erect, and scarcely branched ; 
Wir-gil’-i-a... ... (com.) L. Publius Virgilius Maro [cormmonly known as *“ The 
poet Virgil’’], 70-19 Be. author of * The Aineid”, “ Geogrgics”’, 
“ Bucolics ’? and ‘‘ Eclogues,” one of the most celebrated 
“ Latin”? poets ; 
Vir-gn-1-a/-na ... (coc.) pertarning to Virginia, one of the South Atlantic states of 
the United States of America ; 
vir-id-if-lo’-ra ... (Latin), with green flowers ; 
vir-id-if ol’-ia ... (Latin), with green leaves ; 
