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TOOROO. A South American palm. 



TOOTHACHE-TREE. Xanthoxylon fraxi- 

 neum. 



TOOTHED. Dentate ; having any kind 

 of small divisions. 



TOOTHWORT. Dentaria ; also Lathrcea. 



TOOT-PLANT. A poisonous New Zea- 

 land shrub, Coriaria ruscifolia. 



TOPANA. A Greek name for the edible 

 tubers of Bunium ferulaceum. 



TOPINAMBOUR. (Pr.) Eelianthus tu- 

 berosus. 



TOP-SHAPED. Inversely conical, with 

 a contraction towards the point ; as the 

 fruit of some roses. 



TOQUE. (Fr.) Scutellaria. 



TORCHE-PIN. (Fr) Pinus Pumilio 



TORCHES. Verbascum Thapsus. 



TORCHWOOD. Cereus heptac/onus ; also 

 Thiodia serrata. — , MOUNTAIN. Amyris 

 balsamifera. 



TORDYLIOPSIS. A genus of herbaceous 

 Umbcllifercp, founded on a single species 

 from Nepal. It is a hairy plant, with much- 

 divided leaves, and six to eight-rayed ter- 

 minal umbels, with many-leaved general 

 and partial involucres. The calyx-teeth 

 are acute, the outer larger with a dilated 

 base , and the petals on the outer margin 

 are large obcordate bilobed, the others 

 smaller cuspidate or rarely somewhat bi- 

 lobed. The mature fruit is unknown, but 

 in its young state it is hairy. The genus 

 requires further examination. [W. C.] 



TORDYLIUM. A small genus of herba- 

 ceous Umbelliferce, chiefly from the Medi- 

 terranean region, with pinnatisect leaves 

 which have ovate segments, and compound 

 umbels with general and partial involu- 

 cres. The calyx consists of five subulate 

 teeth ; the petals are obcordate, with an 

 inflexed lobe, the outer ones being often 

 large and radiant ; the flat fruit has a broad 

 thick wrinkled margin; and the carpels 

 have scarcely visible ribs: the three dorsal 

 equidistant, and the two distant lateral 

 fines close to the thickened margin, while 

 there are one or three vitta? in the in- 

 terstices. The genus has been divided 

 into two sections— Eittordylium, with a 

 single vitta in the interstices and two in 

 the commissure; and Condylocarpus, with 

 three vittre in the interstices and many in 

 the commissure. 



The plants of this genus have the general 

 appearance of Caucalis, but they are readily 

 distinguished by the flat fruit. Onespecies, 

 T maximum, is included in the British 

 Flora; it occurs very rarely on waste 

 ground in Middlesex and the adjoining 

 counties. [W C] 



TORENIA. A genus of Scmphulariacem, 

 containing several species of herb?, with 

 opposite leaves, and short few-flowered 

 racemes. They are scattered over the 



tropical regions of the Old World, one 

 species being found also in America. The 

 tubular calyx is plicate or winged, and 

 five-toothed or two-lipped ; and the upper 

 lip of the open-mouthed corolla is emar- 

 ginate or bifid, and the lower trifld. The 

 capsule is oblong, included within the 

 calyx. [W C] 



Growing in bogs or 



TORFACEOUS. 

 mosses. 



TORIA. An Eastern name for Sinapis 

 glauca, extensively cultivated in India for 

 the oil obtained from its seed. 



TORILIS. A genus of Umbelliferw, com- 

 prising herbaceous mostly annual plants, 

 with much-divided leaves covered with 

 short adpressed hairs. The general invo- 

 lucre is one to five-leaved, and the invo- 

 lucel many-leaved. The calyx has five tri- 

 angular-lanceolate acute persistent teeth; 

 and the petals are obcordate, with an in- 

 flexed point, the outer ones radiant and 

 bifld. The fruit is laterally compressed, the 

 carpels having five bristly primary ridges, 

 and four intermediate ones occupying the 

 whole of the interstices, and covered with 

 numerous prickles. The species are in- 

 digenous to Europe, Asia, and North 

 Africa. [W. C] 



TORMENTIL, TORMENTILLA. The 

 Potentilla Tormentilla, a species in which 

 the petals are four instead of five in 

 number. 



TORONJA. A Spanish name for the 

 Citron. 



TORONJIL. A Spanish name for Citrus 

 decumana. 



TOROSE, TORULOSE. A cylindrical 

 body, swollen out here and there. 



TORREYA. A genus of Taxacece, to 

 which the name of Stinking Yews has 

 been given, on account of the leaves and 

 wood emitting a disagreeable odour when 

 bruised or burned. They are small ever- 

 green trees of North America, China, or 

 Japan, and grow from twenty to fifty feet 

 high; the linear or lanceolate leaves are 

 more or less distinctly two-ranked, and the 

 flowers dioecious, the males solitary and 

 the females erect, in twos or threes. The 

 fruits are drupaceous, each with a single 

 seed, which has a ruminated albumen 

 covered by a hard bony shell. The timber 

 of T. taxifolia and T. myristica is heavy 

 and close-grained, but has an unpleasant 

 smell. The kernels of the seeds of T. nu- 

 ci/era yield an oil, which is used for culi- 

 nary purposes, though the kernel is too 

 astringent to be eaten. [T. MJ 



TORRONTES. A kind of white grape 

 grown in Spain. 



TORROO. A Guiana palm. 



TORSIVE. Twisted spirally. The same 

 as Contorted, except that there is no obli- 

 quity in the form or insertion of the pieces 

 as in the petals of Oxalis. 



