GLOSSARY. XXV 



Veins ; bundles of vessels in leaves and their modifications. 



Ventrieose ; swelling unequally on one side. 



Vernation ; the arrangement of leaves in a bud. 



Versatile ; swinging freely on its support, as an anther attached 



by one point of its back. 

 Villose ; shaggy with loose long soft hair. 

 Viscous-, clammy. 

 Vittcs ; linear receptacles of oil in the fruits of UmbeUifers ; 



stripes. 

 Viviparous ; bearing young plants in the place of flowers. 



Wedgeshaped ; like a wedge, but attached by its point. 



Whorl ; formed of similar organs arranged in a circle round an 



axis. 

 Whorled ; arranged in whorls. 

 Winged ; having leaflike or membranous expansions. 

 Wings ; the lateral petals of a Pea-flower ; the flat membranous 



appendages of some seeds. 



When two terms are combined, as ovate-lanceolate, it means 

 that the form or structure is compounded of the two, or lies be- 

 tween them. 



