GLOSSARY. XXIX 
VALYATE (valvaia), petals before expansion applied to each other by their 
margins are said to be valvate. 
VALvEs, the glumes or bracts of grasses are frequently so called. 
Veins, the divisions of the petiole ramifying among the cellular tissue of 
the leaf. 
VELUTINUS, velvety, densely covered with close short hairs like velvet. 
VenrTricosus, See bellying. 
VERNATION, the unexpanded state of the foliage. 
circinate, curled round like the head of a crosier, as the young frond of 
ferns. 
conduplicate, when the sides are applied parallely to the face of each 
other. 
convolute, when one is wholly rolled up in another. 
VERRUCOSUS, tuberculated, covered with small warts or excrescences. 
VERSATILE (versatilis), attached by the middle, so that the two halves are 
equally balanced, or nearly so. 
VERTICAL, perpendicular, being at right angles with some other body. 
VEXILLUM. See standard. 
ViILLosts, covered with very long soft straight erect hairs. 
Visctrp (viscidus, or glutinosus,) covered with a glutinous exudation. 
VoLuBILIs, twining, having the property of twisting round some other body. 
VERTICILLATUS, whorled, when several things are arranged round a common 
: axis, as the leaves of Galium, petals round the ovarium, &e. 
W. 
Warts. See verrucosus. 
Wavy. See undulatus. 
Waxy, having the texture and colour of new wax. 
WEDGE-SHAPED (cuneatus), in the form of a wedge. 
WHEEL-SHAPED. See rotatus. 
Wuipr-sHaPED. See flagelliformis. 
WHorteED. See yerticillatus. 
WincGeED (alatus), anything having a thin broad margin, as the carpels of 
many umbellate plants, &e. 
Wootty. See lanatus. 
WRINELED (corrugata), when parts are folded without regularity. 
WITHERING. See marcescens. 
