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GLOSSARY. 
Versatile ; swinging freely on its support, as an anther 
attached by one point of its back. 
Villose ; shaggy with loose long soft hair. 
Viscous ; clammy. 
Vitta; ; linear receptacles of oU in the fruits of Umbellifers : 
stripes. \ 
Viviparous ; bearing young plants in the place of flowers. 
Wedgeskaped ; like a wedge, but attached by its point. 
Whorl ; formed of similar organs arranged in a circle round an 
axis. 
Whorled ; arranged in whorls. 
Witiged ; having leaflike or membranous expansions. 
Wings ; the lateral petals of a Pea-flower ; the flat membranous 
appendages of some seeds. 
^Vhen two terms are combined, as m'ate-lanceolafe, it means 
that the form or structure is compounded of the two, or lies 
between them. 
