WATER-FIRE. Bergia ammannioides. 



WATER-GLADIOLE. A name given by 

 Gerarde to the Flowering Rush, Butomus. 



WATER-LEAF. Hydrophyllum ; also 

 Rhodomenia palmata. 



WATER-LETTUCE. The West Indian 

 name of Pistia Stratiotes. 



WATER-LILIES. A general name for 

 the Symphceacece. 



WATER-LILT. Xirmplicea. — , ROYAL. 

 Victoria regia. —.WHITE. Xymphcea alba- 

 — , YELLOW. Nuphar. 



WATER-NYMPH. Xymphcea. 



WATER-PEPPERS. The English name 

 for the Elatinacece. 



WATER-PLANT. An aquatic plant, i.e. 

 one growing in water not in earth (terres- 

 trial), or air (aerial). 



WATER-PLATTER. Victoria regia. 

 WATERSHIELD. Brasenia. 

 WATERSHIELDS. An English name 

 for the Cabombaceos. 

 WATER-SOLDIER. Stratiotes. 

 WATER-SPIKE. Potamogeton. 

 WATER-TORCH. Typha latifolia. 



WATER-TREE. Tetracera potatoria. 

 —, RED. Erythrophleum. 



WATER- WEED. AnacharisA Isinastrum, 

 also, called Udora. — , NEW GRENADA. 

 Marathriuyn utile. 



WATER-WITHE. Vitis caribcea. 



WATER-WOOD. Chimarrhis cymosa. 



WATERWORT. Elatine. 



WATSONTA. A rather numerous genus 

 of Cape Iridaceae, resembling and formerly 

 combined with Gladiolus. They are her- 

 baceous plants, with bulbous or tuberous 

 rootstocks, very narrow or broad sword- 

 shaped leaves, and loose spikes of large 

 often brightly-coloured flowers, or dense 

 spikes of smaller ones. The flowers rise 

 from a stiff two-valved spathe, and have 

 .a coloured short-tubed calyx with a six- 

 parted limb, the segments being either 

 nearly equal or bilabiate ; three stamens, 

 which rise from below the throat of the 

 calyx, and are either erect or somewhat 

 one-sided, with versatile anthers ; and a 

 three-celled ovary, bearing a slender style 

 ending in three two-parted narrow stiff- 

 mas, and containing numerous ovules. All 

 the species are confined to the Cape of 

 Good Hope. [A. SJ 



WATTLE-TREE. An Australian name 

 for Acacia. — , BLACK. Acacia affliiis; 

 also A. mollissima. — , RASPBERRY JAM. 

 A West Australian species of Acacia. — , 

 SAVANNAH. Citharexyltm qvadrangu- 

 lare and C. cinereum. — , SILVER. Acacia 

 mollissima. —, — , of Tasmania. Acacia 

 dealbata. 



WATTLE- WOOD. Lcetia Thamnia. 



WAVY. The same as Undulate. 



WAW-WAW. Bajania pleioneura. 



WAX, CARNAUBA. The produce of the 

 young leaves of the Wax Palm of Brazil, 

 Copernicia cerifera, used for making can- 

 dles. — , VEGETABLE. A kind of wax 

 obtained from the berries of several spe- 

 cies of Myrica, especially M. cerifera. It is 

 sometimes called Myrtle Wax, from the 

 name of Candleberry Myrtle applied to 

 Myrica. 



WAXCLUSTER. Gaultheria hispida. 



WAX-TREE. Vismia. —.JAPAN. Rhus 

 succedaneum. — , NEW GRENADA. Elcea- 

 gia utilis. 



WAXWORK. Celastrus scandens. 



WAXY. Having the texture and colour 

 of new wax. 



WAYAKA. A Feejean name for Pachy- 

 rhizus angulatus. 



WAY-BE NNET, or WAY-BENT. Har- 

 deum murinum. 



WAYBREAD. Planiago major. 



WAYFARING-TREE. Viburnum Lan- 



WAYTHORN. Rhamrius catharticus. 



WEASEL-SNOUT. Galeobdolon luteum. 



WEBBIA. A genus of somewhat shrub- 

 by Composite, natives of Tropical Africa, 

 as well as of the Cape of Good Hope. The 

 leaves are entire, smooth above, hairy be- 

 low. The flower-heads are surrounded by 

 an involucre of two or three rows of over- 

 lapping scales ; the receptacle is pitted ; 

 the flowers are unisexual and dioecious— 

 the males with a tubular corolla, conceal- 

 ing the anthers and the style ; the females 

 more deeply divided, rather fleshy, the 

 style protruding beyond the corolla, and 

 the stigmas elongated and hairy. The 

 achenesare cylindrical, striated, with very 

 hairy ridges, and glandular furrows ; pap- 

 pus hairy, in many rows. [M. T. M.] 



WEDDELINA. The merits of a French 

 botanist and traveller are intended to be 

 commemorated by this name, which is ap- 

 plied to a genus of Podostemacece, com- 

 prising a small herbaceous plant, native of 

 (iuiana. It has a linear rootstock, which 

 divides into a number of thick branches 

 closely intertwined, rounded on one sur- 

 face and hollowed on the other. The 

 leaves are divided into numerous linear 

 segments. The flowers have a thin mem- 

 branous perianth of five pieces, each tra- 

 versed by a thick midrib, which remains 

 in the form of a stiff thread, after the cel- 

 lular part has rotted away ; the stamens 

 are six to ten, hypogynous ; style terminal ; 

 stigma capitate. [M. T. M.] 



WEDELIA. A genus of Composite, con- 

 sisting of herbs or undershrubs, most 

 abundant in Tropical and Subtropical 

 America, but also found in Asia and Aus- 



