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Veins. The ribs of leaves. 



Velvety. Clothed with a close, soft, 



and dense pubescence. 

 Venation. Distribution of veins in a 



leaf. 

 Ventral suture. The suture looking 



to the axis of the flower. 

 Ventricose. Inflated ; swelling out. 

 Vernation. The arrangement of 



leaves in buds. 

 Verrucose. Warty. 

 Versatile. Lying .horizontally, and 



moving freely on a point. 

 Vertical. At right angles with the 



earth. 

 Verticel. A whorl. 

 Verticillaster. A whorled cyme. 

 Verticillate. In whorls 



whorls. 



Vesicular. Bladdery ; having blad- 

 der-like cavities. 

 Vexillum. Banner of a papilionaceous 



flower. 



bearing 



Villous. Having a covering of shaggy 

 hairs. 



Virgate. Wand -like. 



Viscid. Clammy, glutinous. 



Vittce. Canals filled with volatile oil 

 on the commissure and in the in- 

 tervals of the seeds of the umbelli- 

 ferae. 



Voluble. Twining. 



Wedge-shaped. Cuneiform ; obo- 

 vate, with straightish sides. 



Whorl, Flowers or leaves surround- 

 ing the stem in numbers. 



Wings. Lateral appendages to leaves, 

 &c. ; also the two side petals in a 

 papilionaceous flower. 



Withering. Shrivelling or decaying ,* 

 marcescent. 



Wood. The solid part of plants, com- 

 posed of cellular tissue, woody fibre, 

 spiral vessels, &c. 



