798 JOVUNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HIST. SOCIETY, Vol. XXIV. 



Genus ani> Author. 



NATUiiAi Date. Dbbivation and Common Name. 

 Order. 



Ventilago, Gartn. . . Rham. 1788. 



Verbena, L. 



Verben. 1787 



Verbesina, L. . . Compo. 1735. 



Vernonia, Schreb. . . Compo. 1791. 



Veronica, L.f 

 Viburnurrij L. 

 Vicia, (Tourn.) L. 

 VicoA. Cass. 



. . Scroph. 1735. 

 ..Caprifol. 1735. 

 . . Leg. Papil. 1735. 

 ..Compo. 1829. 



Victoria, Lin dl. ..Nymph, 1837. 



ViGNA, Savi.f . . Leg. Papil. 1826. 



Villarsia, Vent. 



. Gentia. 1803. 



Villebi-unea,'^ Gaud. . . Urti. 1844-66. 

 Vinca, L. . . . . Apocyn. 1735. 



Viola, (Tourn.) L.f . . Viola. 1735. . 



Viscai'ia, Riv. ex Rupp. | Caryphyll. 1745 

 ViscuM, (Tourn.) L... Loranth. 1737.. 



Vitbx, (Tourn.) L.-f . . Verben. 1735. . 



ViTis, (Tourn.) L.f . . Ampel. 1785. 

 Vittadinia, A. Rich. . . Compo. 1882. 



from ventus, wind, and ago, to 

 drive ; the winged fruits are 

 wind driven (D) ; ventilo, to be 

 exposed to the wind. — N. 



said to be from the Celtic name 

 ferfaen (D) ; the old Latin name 

 used by Virgil. — N. 



altered from Verbena. — N. 



in honour of William Vernon, a 

 botanical traveller in North 

 America. — N. 



probably from Jiiera eicon, sacred 

 image. AnyeV s-eyes or Speedwell. 



the Latin name of the Wayfaring- 

 tree. — C. 

 . the old Latin name. — N. Broad 

 Bean. 



in honour of G. B. Vico, an Italian 

 scientific author of the end of 

 the seventeenth century. — C. 



after Her Majesty Queen Vic- 

 toria. — N. Victoria Lily. 

 . after Dominic Vigni, author of a 

 commentary on Theophastus. 

 1625.— N. Coio-pea. 



after Dominique Villars, 1745- 

 1814, Professor at Grenoble. — • 

 N. Water-lily. 



Commemorative . 



from vinculum, a band, because of 

 the flexibility of the branches 

 (D.) ; the old Latin name used 

 by Pliny. — N. Band-plant or 

 Periwinlde. 



the old Latin name used by Vir- 

 gil.— N. 



included under Lychnis. 



the old Latin name used by Vir- 

 gil. — N. Mistletoe. 



from vieo, to bind ; in allusion to 

 the flexibility of the branches 

 (D.) ; the old Latin name used 

 by Pliny.— N. Aynus-castus. 



from Celtic givid, the best of trees 

 (D.) ; the old Latin name useni 

 by Virgil. — N. Grape Vine. 



after Dr. C. Vittadini, an Aus- 

 trian, who wrote on Fungi, 182€>- 

 1842.— B. After Dr. Carlo Vit- 

 tadini ; a physician and botanist 

 in Milan, died in 1866.— Z. 



* Doubtfully indiirenous. 



X Viscaria, Roehl. in Durand and Engler-PrantL 



