GLOSSARY. 



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direction ; from the zenith, or highest 

 point, directly downwra-ds 

 Vertical leaves. "When they stand edge 

 up, or present their margins— and not 

 their faces— to the earth and sky; ii>dic- 

 ative rather of FJiyllodia, than of true 

 leaves. 



Tei ticil: a -vrhorl ; flowers, leaves, or other 

 organs, arranged in a horizontal ring, 

 ronnd a stem, or at its summit. 



Vert if master. A spurious verticil ; t con- 

 densed cyme, or cluster resemlL'ug a 

 verticil.—" as in many Labiat.e. 



Verticillate; growing or arranged in i ver- 

 ticil, or whorl, or horizontal ring. 



Yesicles. Little bladder-like vessels. 



Vtsic^clar, or Tesicnlose: made of, or /e 

 sembling, little bladders. 



Vespertine flowers. Those which expac^ 

 in the evening. 



Vkcilhim. The banner, or broad uppo 

 petal of a pa^iiiionaceous corolla. 



VcUose, or villous; velvety; clothed wi!' 

 numerous, and rather long, soft hairs. I 



Villas i plural, villi). The velvet like !,' 

 bescauce on a villous plaTjt. 



Virescent; inclining to, or becoming, green. 

 Virgate: wand like ; long, slender, and 



straight. 

 Viridescen t; gre enish . 

 Viscid: claminy : covered with a sticky or 



adhesive moisture. 

 Viscid pubescent; with a clammy pubes- 



c»nce. 



Vittx- Fillets ; linear receptacles of oily 

 matter on the carpels of Umbelliferous 

 plants. 



Viriparous; producing a collateral off- 

 spring by means of bulbs; or having the 

 seeds to germinate before they are de- 

 tached from the parent plant. 



Voh'JAle: ascending spirally, or climbing by 

 embracing another object. See Ticining. 



Wavy; see^nndiiJate. 



Wliorl; see verticil. 



Winged; having a thin, extended margin. 



Wings. The side petals of a papilionaceoua 

 corolla ; also, the membranous expansion 

 ' at the summit or margin of certain per-- 

 i carps, and on the sides of some petioles. 



WooUr/; clothed with a long curled or Uiftt- 

 i t»<i pubescence, resembling wool 



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