308 INDEX AND 
GLOSSARY. 
Suture, a seam; the line of cohesion. 
Symmetrical, 111. 
Syngenecious, having the anthers united 
into a tube, 107. 
Tendril, 54, 55, 236. 
Terete, rounded or eylindrie, 8. 
Terminal, borne at the summit, 53. 
Terminal bud, 58. 
Ternate, 88. 
Testa, the outer seed-coat. 
Tetradynamons, 108. 
Tetrandrous, with 4 stamens, 
Thorn, 56. 
Throat, 76. 
Thyrse, 154. 
Tomentous, 61. 
Toothed, dentate, 80. 
Torus, the receptacle, 64, [224. 
Trailing, creeping or lying on the ground, 
Tree, 214, 
Triandrous, with 8 stamens. 
Tri-cuspidate, having 8 poitits, 
Tri-dentate, 3-toothed. 
Trifid, 3-cleft. 
Trifoliate, 8 leaves or leaflets composing 
one leaf. 
Tri-pinnate, thrice pinnate. 
Triternate, thrice ternate, 39. 
Truncate, blunt, as if cut square off. 
Trunk, 234. 
Tryma, 172. 
Tube, 76. 
Tuber, 238. 
Tubercular, 222. 
Tuberiferous, bearing tubers. 
Tuberous, thickened like a tuber. 
Tuberous roots, 220. 
Tubular, hollow like a tube, 95. 
Tulip, 11. 
Tunicated, coated, as an onion, 
Turbinate, shaped like a top. 
Turgid, swollen. 
Umbel, 152. 
Umbellet, 152. 
Unarmed, without thorns, prickles, &c. 
Uncinate, hooked at the end. 
Undershrub, 215. 
Undulate, wavy, 22.—Fig. 33. 
Unguiculate, with a claw, 71.—Fig. 116. 
Urceolate, urn-shaped, 92.—Fig. 148. 
Utricle, a one-seeded fruit, like that of 
Pigweed. 
Valvate, 129. 
Valves, the parts which open. 
Variety, 244, 
Veinlets, 7. 
Veins, 6. 
Veins of the leaf, 6. 
Veinnlets, 8. 
Velvety, clothed with thick, soft down, 
Venation, 10. 
Ventral suture, the front seam. 
Fentricous, swelling out on one side. 
Vernation, 51, 135. 
Verrucous, warty. 
Versatile, 105. 
Verticil, a whorl of flowers, 
Verticillate, 50. 
Vexillary, 182. 
Vexillum, the banner, 89. 
Villous, 61. 
Vine, 236. 
Virgate, wand-shaped, terete and slender. 
Wedge-shaped, see Cuneate, 17, 
Wheel-shaped, see Rotate, 90. 
Whorled, see Verticillate, 50. 
Winged, as if furnished with wings, 
Winged petiole, 45. 
ings, 89. 
Woody plants, 214, 
