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GLOSSARY. 



Tarnation; the arrangement of leaves Voluble; twining, 

 in the hud. 



Verucosa; warty. 



Versatile ; lying horizontally. 



Vertical; at right augks with the earfch. 



Verticel; a whorl. 



Verticellaster ; a whorlcd cym°. 



Verticellate; in whorls, bearing whorl?. 



Vesoicular; bladdery, haying bladder- 

 like cavities. 



Yexillum; the standard of a papillina- 

 ceous corolla. 



Tillous or Villoso ; clothed with long and 

 soft shaggy hairs. 



Virgatc; wan 



Viscid ; clammy, gVatinoui. 



ViUsR ; oil-tubes, longitudinal canals in 

 the substance of the fruit of Umbel- 

 liferous plants, containing aromatic oil. 



Wand ; a small twig, a long rod. 

 Wedge-shaped; obovate with straitieh 



sides. 

 Wheel-shaped; when a corolla has a 



spreading limb and a very short tube. 

 Whorl ; flowers or leaves surrounding 



the stem in numbers. 

 Wings ; lateral appendages to leaves, Ac, 



also the two side petals in a papilliona- 



ceous flower. 

 Wood ; the solid part of plant", composed 



of cellular tissue, woody fibre, spiral 



vessels, &c. 

 Woody tissue ; cells with firm and thick- 



ish walls, drawn out into tapering or 



slendor tubes. 

 Woolly ; clothed with long mattod hairs. 



