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GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 



Valvate or vdlvular aestivation, &c. : 



wlicre the parts meet by their edges 



witliout overlapping, 144, 273. 

 Valve : a door, or portion into which a 



pod, &c. separates in dehiscence ; 



also a piece or leaf of a spathe, &c. 

 Valued : opening by valves. 

 Vanilla, 489. 

 Variegated : having one or two colors 



disposed in patches. 

 Varieties, 355. 

 Vascular ; relating to or furnished with 



vessels. 

 Vascular Plants, 68. 

 Vascular or vasljbrm tissue, 40, 45. 

 Vasculum : same as Ascidiuni. 

 Vegetable Ivory, 484. 

 Vegetable Physiology and Anatomy, 



14, 

 Veil : see Calyptra. 

 Veined : furnished with slender vascnlar 



or woody bundles, especially with 



branching ones, or 

 Veitis, 145, 155. 



Veinless : destitute of apparent veins. 

 Veinlets : the smaller ramifications of 



veins, 155. 

 Velate : veiled. 

 Veliitinous : velvety ; covered with very 



fine and close soft hairs, so that 



the surface resembles velvet to the 



touch. 

 Venation : the mode of veining, 154. 

 Venose : veiny ; abounding in veins. 

 Ventral : relating to the inner side of a 



simple pistil, viz. that next the 



axis. 

 Ventral suture : the inner suture, 289. 

 Ve'ntricose : big-bellied ; swelling out. 

 Venirtculose : somewhat ventricose. 

 V^nulose : abounding in veinlets. 

 Veratria, 494. 

 VerbenaccEe, 449. 



Vermicular : worm-like, in shape or ap- 

 pearance. 

 Vernal : belonging to spring. 

 Vernation: the disposition of leaves in 



the bud, 143. 

 Ve'rnicose : varnished. 

 V^iTucose : warty. 



V^rruculose: studded with little warts. 

 Versatile: swinging to and fro; 282, 



fig. 471. 

 Vertex : the summit. 

 Vertical : perpendicular, lengthwise. 

 Vertical leaves, 165. 

 Vertical tissue or system, 45, 50, 112. 

 V&licil, or verticel: a whorl, 92, 134. 

 VerticilJdster : the pair of dense cymes 



forming an ap))arent verticil in 



most Labiatoe, 221. 

 VeHicillate: whorled, 133, 142, 221. 



Vesicle : a little bladder. 



Vesicular : as if composed of little blad- 

 ders. 



Vespertine : apjiearing or expanding in 

 the early evening. 



Vessels, 40. 



Vcxillarij Eestivation, 271. 



Ve'xillarij: pertaining to the 



VexlUum: the standard of a papiliona- 

 ceous corolla ; 253, fig. 332, a. 



Villose, or villous : shaggy with long and 

 soft hairs, or villositij. . 



Viynineous : bearing or resembling long 

 and flexible twigs, like wicker. 



Vine : any trailing, climbing, or twining 

 stem. The Vine, originally, is the 

 Grape-vine. 



Violaceae, or Violariese, 392. 



Vire'scent: somewhat green (virens). 



Virrjate : twig-like ; wand-like. 



Viriclescent .* same as Viresccnt. 



Viscid, viscous : sticky from a tena- 

 cious secretion. 



Vitacese, 407. 



Vit^llus : the thickened embryo-sac per- 

 sistent in the seed, as in Saururas 

 and Brasenia. 



Viticidose : producing small suckers or 

 stolons (viticulce). 



Vittce (fillets) : the oil-receptacles of the 

 fruit of XJmbellifera!, 426. 



Vittate : bearing vittse : marked with 

 longitudinal stripes or fillets, 

 426. 



Viviparous : germinating from the seed 

 (330), or sprouting from a bulb, 

 &c., while still attached to the 

 parent plant. 



Voluble : twining, 102. 



Volute : rolled up. 



Volva ; the wrapper of Tungi, 507. 



"Walnut, 476. 



Wavy : see Undulate. 



AVax, 56. 



I^fi.T^ ; resembling beeswax in appear- 

 ance or consistence. 



Wedge-shaped: see Cuneate. 



"Wheat, 498. 



Wheel-shaped: a corolla or calyx with 

 a veiy short tube and a flat- 

 spreading border ; 278, fig. 454. 



Whorl :' a set of organs arranged in a 

 circle round an axis, 92, 134, 

 221. 



Whorled: disposed in whorls. 



"Whortleberry, 439. 



Wild : growing spontaneously. 



Wing: any membranous expansion. 

 Also the two side petals of a pa- 

 pilionaceous corolla ; 253, fig. 

 392, b. 



