GLOSSARY. 



TritemaU i three times ternate. 



Trumpet-shaped: tubular, enlarged at or towards the summit, as the corolla 



of Trumpet-Creeper. 

 Truncate: as if cut off at the top. 

 Trunks the mate stem or general body of a stem or tree. 

 Tuber: a thickened portion of a subterranean stem or branch, provided With 



eyes (buds) on the sides ; as a potato. 

 Titbercle: a small excrescence. 



Tubercled, or Tuberculate: bearing excrescences or pimples. 

 T&erousi resembling a tuber. TilberiferOus ! bearing tubers. 

 TtiMar; hollow and of an elongated foimj hollowed like a pipe. 

 Tumid: swollen; somewhat inflated. 

 Tunicate: coated ; invested with layers, as an onion. 

 Turbinate: top-shaped. Turgid: thick as if swollen. 

 Turnip-sloped: broader than high, abruptly narrowed below. 

 Turin : in pairs (see geminate). 



Twitting: ascending by coiling round a support, like the Hop. 

 Typical: well expressing the characteristics of a species, genus, 4c. 



tjmhd: the umbrella-like form of inflorescence. 



UmbSlUae : in umbels. Umbelliferous ! bearing umbels. 



(Jmbellet: a secondary or partial umbel. 



Umbflicate : depressed in the centre, like the ends of an apple. 



tJmbonate: bossed; furnished with a low, rounded projection like a boss 



{umbo). 

 Unarmed: destitute of spines, prickles, and the like. 

 ifncinate: hook-shaped ; hooked Over at the end. 

 Under-shrub: partially shrubby, or a very low Shrub. 

 tJndulate: wavy, or Wavy-margined. 

 Unequally pinnate : pinnate with an Odd number of leaflets. 

 Unguteulate : f nrnished with a claw (unguis) ; i. u. a narrow base, as the 



petals of a Rose, wbere the claw is Very Short, and those of Pinks, 



where the claw is very long. 

 Uni-, in compound words : one ; as 

 Unifl&rous: one-flowered. Unifdliate: one-leaved. 

 Unifbliolafa .' of one leaflet. Unijugate : Of one pair. 

 Unildbiate: one-lipped. Unilateral: one-sided. 

 Unilocular: one-celled. 

 Unidvulute .* having only one ovule. 

 Uniserial: in one horizontal rOW. 



Unisexual! having stamens or pistils only, as in Moonseed. 

 tfnwalved: a pod of only one piece after dehiscence. 

 Urcedlate: urn-shaped. 



Utricle: a small, thin- walled, one-seeded fruit, as of Goosefoot 

 Utricular: like a small bladder. 



Vaginates sheathed, surrounded by a sheath [vagina) 

 Valve: one of the pieces (or doors) into which a dehiscent pod, or any simi- 

 lar body, splits. 



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