Subsessile, almost sessile having very short foot-stalks. 
e, awl-shaped ; linear, or slender at the base, and 
gradually tapering towards the end, like an awl 
or, & X, or corolla, is superior when it pro- 
ceeds from the upper part of the germ. 
Sutures, or seams, the edges by which the valves are 
o-e n 
tag t, and somewhat convex on both surfaces, as in 
e Iris 
fob a , filiform appendage of ie ag vines, which 
turning round other objects. 
—. rina it terminates a vais or branch. 
Ternate, growing by threes, as in Trefoil 3. 
Thread shaped, see filiform. 
Tomentous, downy, nappy, cottony ; covered with hairs 
so sles as to be scarcely discernible. 
Trifid, divided into three par linear sinuses, with 
straight itary ; three-cleft. 
Truncate, having a square termination as if cut off; as 
the leaves of the Liriodendron Tulipifera 
Tuberous, from tuber, a bunch. Consisting ‘of roundish 
fleshy bodies, or tubers, eee into a bunch by 
intervening threads; as the roots of potatoes, arti- 
chokes, e' 
Pet z if, QS 
Thal » y 3s = \ < a> 
ALS SA ee Raat — ay GS ay 
At we Y g a 
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Umbel, a kind of inflorescence in which the flower-stalks 
dive ent pio one centre as rays; as in the Parsnip, 
Parsley, e See 
Ondulate, fod the middle part of the leaf, especially 
as it approaches the margin, is acutely folded up and 
down, as in the Mallows. 
Vaive, the outer coat, shell or covering of a capsule or 
other anprnighs or iegre one of the pieces which com- 
it; also of the leaflets composing the calyx 
penton spalling pcs in oe middle; as a ventricious 
Verticillate bac Having leaves given off in a cir- 
Villous, hairy, h itis the hairs long and soft. 
Vivi iparon, producing a collateral offspring by means 
of bu. 
bit is 3 erat in which the ey surround 
the of ring, though they-may not per- 
pe be radared on a ce wt it, but chabely on two 
pposite sides, and e n one side only. 
Winged the two lateral petal of a aplionactons flower. 
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