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GLOSSARY. 
Urceolate ; like a pitcher contracted at the mouth. 
Utricle ; a bladder- like covering ; the two contiuent glunies of 
Carex. 
Valmte ; having valves or parts of an organ opening like little 
doors ; or organs touching only along their edges. 
Veim ; bundles of vessels in leaves and their modifications. 
Ventricose ; swelling unequally on one side. 
Vernation ; the arrangement of leaves in a bud. 
Versatile ; svsTuging freely on its support, as an anther attached 
by one point of its back. 
Villose ; shaggy with loose long soft hair. 
Viscous ; clammy. 
Vittce; lineal- receptacles of oil in the fruits of Umbellifers 
stripes. 
Viviparous ; bearing young plants in the place of flowers. 
Wcdgesliaped ; like a wedge, but attached by its point. 
Whorl ; formed of similar organs arranged m a circle roimd an 
axis. 
Wliorled ; arranged in whorls. 
Winged ; having leaflike or membranous expansions. 
Wings ; the lateral petals of a Pea-flower ; the flat membranous 
appendages of some seeds. 
When two terms are combined, as ovate-lanceolate, it means 
that the foi-m or structure is compoimded of the two, or lies be- 
tween them. 
