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GLOSSARY 



Valve, one of the pieces into 

 which a capsule splits. 



Vascular, furnished with vessels 

 or ducts. 



Veins, threads of fibro-vascular 

 tissue in a leaf or other organ. 



Ventral, belonging to the an- 

 terior or inner face of an 

 organ; the opposite of dorsal. 

 Placenta is ventral when 

 situated on the inside of the 

 ventral suture, as in a legume. 



Vernation, the arrangement of 

 leaves in the bud. 



Versatile (anther), attached near 

 the middle and turning freely 

 on the filament as on a pivot. 



Verticil, a whorl. 



Verticillate, disposed in a whorl. 



Villous, bearing long and soft 

 hairs. 



Viscid, glutinous, sticky. 



Vitta, an oil-tube; a structure 

 commonly present in the peri- 

 carp of the UmbellifercB. 



Whorl, an arrangement of 

 leaves, &c., in a circle round 

 the stem. 



Wing, any membranous or thin 

 expansion bordering or sur- 

 rounding an organ; the lat- 

 eral petal of a papilionaceous 

 corolla. 



Zygomorphic, capable of divi- 

 sion into two equal and simi- 

 lar halves by only one plane 

 of symmetry ; monosym- 

 metrical. 



Zygospore, product of conjuga- 

 tion. 



Zygote, product of conjugation 

 or fertilization; includes both 

 zygospore and oospore. 



