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INDEX AND DICTIONARY OF BOTANICAL TERMS. 
Utricle : like an akene, but with a thin and loose 
pericarp. 
Valves : the pieces into which a pod splits, or 
by which an anther, &c. opens, 80. 
Varieties, 93. 
Vegetable Kingdom, 2. 
Vegetation, 6, 89. 
Veining of leaves, 44. 
Veinlets, 44. 
Veins, 44. 
Veiny: full of veins. 
Velvety: clothed with a coat of soft and fine 
hairs, like the pile of velvet. 
Vertical : upright, or in the direction of the 
length of a thing. 
Verticillate ; same as whorled. 
Villous, or Villose : hairy with long and soft 
shaggy hairs. 
Viscid, or Viscous : glutinous. 
Wavy, 42. 
Wedge-shaped, 47. 
Wheel-shaped, 72. 
Whorl, 54. 
Whorled, 54. 
Winged: furnished with a broad and thin ap- 
pendage or wing-like border of any kind, as 
the seeds of Trumpet-Creeper (Fig. 228), or 
the fruit of Maple, Ash, and Elm (Fig. 206 
-208). 
Wood, 41. 
Woolly : clothed with a coat of long and entan 
gled soft hairs, like wool. 
