GLOSSARY OF LATIN SPECIFIC TERMS 



stolonifera — producing stolons, 

 strigosus — rough, scraggly, meagre, 

 suspensa — drooping. 



taxifolius — yew-leaved, 

 tinctoria — capable of coloring, 

 tomentosa — woolly, covered with to- 



mentum. 

 toxicodendron — poison-tree, 

 trifoliata — three-leaved, 

 trifida — three-cleft, 

 trilobata — three-lobed. 

 tripetala — three-petaled. 

 tristis — sad-colored, gray. 



uliginosum — growing in mud. 

 umbellata — bearing umbels, 

 uva ursi — bearberry. 



vacillans — unstable, unsteady, 

 venenata — poisonous, 

 vernix — varnish, 

 verticillata — whorled. 

 villosus — downy, 

 virginiana — Virginian, 

 virginica — Virginian, 

 viridis — green, 

 viscosa — clammy. 



vitis idasa — ancient name of doubt- 

 ful meaning, 

 vulgaris-e — common. 



wichuraiana — given in honor of 

 Wichuray, a Russian bota- 

 nist. 



xylosteum — bony wood, hard-wood. 



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