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WILD-BOAR'S TREE, A San Domingo 

 name for Htsdwigia balsamifefa. 



WILD CINCHONA. 

 dosa. 



Musscenda fron- 



WILDE PRUIME. The fruit of Pappea 

 capensis, or the Wild Pium. 



WILDING. The Crab, Pyrus Ma'lus. 



WILD SPANIARD, Aciphylla squamosa 

 and A. Colensoi. 



WILLDENOWIA. An ill-defined genus 

 of Restiacece, consisting of Cape herbaceous 

 plants, with branched rush-like leafless 

 stems, provided here and there with mem- 

 branous sheaths. The flowers are dioecious, 

 the males in racemes at the ends of the 

 branches, each raceme having at its base a 

 large sheathing bract, and the pedicels also 

 being each provided with a very longinem- 

 branous bract: the flowers themselves 

 consisting of a membranous four to five- 

 parted perianth the segments of which are 

 narrow, nearly equal in size, and of three 

 distinct stamens with one-celled anthers. 

 The female flowers are in spikes at the 

 ends of the branches, each spike provided 

 with a sheathing deciduous bract; the 

 perianth is placed upon a thick six-lobed 

 cup-like disk and consists of six nearly 

 equal segments in two rows ; stigmas 

 two ; fruit indehiscent. Some of the spe- 

 cies have a very elegant appearance : two of 

 them are in cultivation, W. teres and W. 

 striata. At the Cape the small wiry stems 

 are used for makmg brooms. [M. T.M.] 



WILLEMETIA. This name has been 

 applied to several genera of various orders, 

 but is now exclusively adopted for a Cen- 

 tral European mountain plant, of the 

 family Compositce. The leaves are entire ; 

 and the flower-heads few in number, each 

 surrounded by an involucre of numerous 

 overlapping scales; the receptacle is flat, 

 scaleless, pitted ; the corollas all strap- 

 shaped ; the achenes uniform, beaked ; and 

 the pappus hairy, in one row. [M. T. M.] 



WILL-O'-THE-WISP. Tremella Nostoe. 



WILLOW. Salix. —, CRACK. Salix 

 fragilis. — , FRENCH. Epilobium angusti- 

 folium. — , GOAT. Salix Caprw.a, the badge 

 of the Cummings. — , GOLDEN. A Ma- 

 deira name for Genista scoparia. — , HUN- 

 TINGDON, or WHITE. Salix alba. — , 

 P 15 RSI AN. Epilobium angiistifoliuin. — , 

 PRIMROSE. A West Indian name for 

 (Enothera. — , ROSE. Salix purpurea. — , 

 SWEET. Myrica Gale. -, WEEPING. 

 Salix babylonica. 



WILLOW-HERB. Epilobium angusti- 

 folium. —.HOODED. Scutellaria. 



WILLOW-WEED. Lythrum Salicaria; 

 also Polygonum lapathifolium. 



WILLOWWORTS. A name proposed 

 by Lindley for the Salicacem. 



WILLUGHBEIA. A genus of Apocyna- 

 cew, containing several climbing shrubs 

 from Southern Asia. They are milky, and 

 have entire opposite leaves and tendrils, 



and axillary and terminal cymes. The calyx 

 is five-parted ; the corolla salver-shaped and 

 five-cleft, with oblong lobes ; the ovate- 

 acute anthers are longer than the filaments; 

 the ovary is one-celled, with numerous 

 ovules attached to two parietal placentas ; 

 the baccate fruit is about the size and 

 shape of an orange, and the numerous 

 seeds are buried in the pulp. [W. C] 



WILSONIA. A genus of Convolvulacew, 

 containing one or two species, undei-shrubs 

 from Australia. The calyx is five-toothed, 

 and the corolla funnel-shaped ; the single 

 style has a capitate stigma , and the small 

 ovary contains two ovules. [W C] 



WILTED. The same as Flaccid. 



WIMMERIA. A genus of Mexican 

 shrubs, similar in general appearance to 

 the species of Celastrus, and belonging to 

 the same family. The leaves are entire, 

 and the flower-stalks cymose; calyx flve- 

 lobed ; petals five, spreading, inserted 

 with the five stamens into a lobed fleshy 

 perigynous disk ; ovary three-celled, with 

 several ovules in each cell; style short, 

 stigma three-lobed; fruit indehiscent, 

 three-winged. [M. T. MJ 



WINCHIA. A genus of Apocynacece, 

 containing a single woody plant from Mar- 

 taban, with ternate or quaternate oblong 

 leaves, and terminal flower-panicles. The 

 calyx is cut into five roundish lobes ; the 

 corolla is salver-shaped, its limb is divided 

 intoflve oblongdi visions, externally downy 

 and hairy on the inside; the five stamens 

 have very short filaments, and lanceolate 

 acute anthers ; and the ovary is two-celled, 

 with numerous ovules. [W. C] 



W IND-FLOWER. Gentiana Pneumonan- 

 the ; also Anemone. — , BASTARD. Gen- 

 tiana Pseudo-Pneumonanthe. 



WINDLE-STRAW. Agrostis Spica venti; 

 also Cynosurus cristatus. 



WIND-SHAKE. See Auemosis. 



WINE. The fermented juice of various 

 fruits prepared with sugar, as grape- 

 wine, orange-wine, &c. ; also the sap of 

 certain plants, as palm-wine. There are 

 besides various medicinal preparations in 

 the form of wine, such as quinine-wine, 

 taraxacum-wine, &c. 



WINEBERRT. Taccinium Myrtillus; 

 also Bibes rubrum. — , NEW ZEALAND. 

 A name given by the colonists to Coriaria 

 sarmentosa. 



WINGED. Furnished with any kind of 

 membranous or thin expansion. 



WING-POINT. Pterostigma. 



WINGS. The two lateral petals of a pa- 

 pilionaceous flower ; any kind of mem- 

 branous expansion. 



WINNA. An Indian name for layers of 

 the dried bark of Lecythis OUaria, used 

 In Guiana as wrappers for cigarettes. 



WINTER-BERRY. Prinos ; also Hex 



montana. 



