344 



VOCABULARy. 



Truncate, terminating very abruptly, 

 as if cut off. 



Tryma, 99 



Tuher, 49 



Tubercled, covered with little excres- 

 cences or warts. 



Tubular, approaching a cylindrical 

 figure and hollow. 



Turbinate, inversely conical; 



Turgid, swollen. 



Turions, the scaly shoots that arise 

 from the neck of perennial plants. 



Twining, twisting round some other 

 body. 



U. 



Umbel, 77 



" universal, 77 



" partial, 77. 

 Uncinate, hooked, curved suddenly 



back at the point. 

 Undulate, waving. 

 Unguiculate, 72 

 Unguis, 72. 

 Urceolate, 72 

 Urtriculus, 96. 



V. 



Valvate, when the sepals or petals fit 

 by their edges, not overlapping 

 each other. 



Vascular system, 27 



Veins, 58. 



Velvety, covered with dense soft to- 

 mentura, so that the surface re- 

 sembles velvet. 



Venation, the manner in which the 

 veins run. 



Ventral, the projecting part of a peri- 

 carp. 



Ventricose, swelling unequally on one 

 side. 



Vernation, 53 



Vtrruco^e, (see tubercled.) 



Versatile, 83 



Vertical, perpendicular. 



Verticillate, whorled, when several 

 things are in opposition around a 

 common axis. 



Vexilluni, 74 



Villose, shaggy, covered with long 

 weak hairs- 



Virgate, slender. 



Viscid, covered with a glutinous exu- 

 dation. 



Vitellus, a sack in which the embryo 

 is enclosed. 



Voluble, twining. 



W. 



Water, 155 



TVedge-shnped, (see cuneate-) 

 Wheel- shaped, (see rotate.) 

 Whorled, (see verticillate-) 

 Wi7}gs, 74 



Winged, having a thin, broad margin^ 

 Wood, origin of, 116. 

 Woolly, covered with long, dense, 

 curled hairs. 



