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GLOSSARY. 
Truncate. Ending abruptly, as if cut off transversely. 
Tuber. A thickened and short subterranean branch, having numerous 
buds or eyes. 
Tubercle. A small tuber or tuber-like body. 
Tuberiferous. Bearing tubers. 
Tuberous. Having the character of a tuber ; tuber-like in appearance. 
Tumid. Swollen. 
Tunicated. Having concentric coats, as an onion. 
Turbinate. Top-shaped; inversely conical. 
Twining. Winding spirally about a support. 
Umbel. An inflorescence in which a cluster of peduncles or pedicels 
spring from the same point. 
Umbellate. In or like an umbel. 
Umbellet. A secondary umbel. 
Umbonate. Bearing a stout prejection in the centre; bossed. 
Undulate. With a wavy surface ; repand. 
Unguiculate. Contracted at the base into a claw. 
Uni-. In composition, one. 
Unisexual. Of one sex, either staminate or pistillate only. 
Urceolate. Hollow and cylindrical or ovoid, and contracted at or below 
the mouth, like an urn. 
Utricle. Small, bladdery, one-seeded fruit; any small bladder-like body. 
Valvate. Opening by valves, as a capsule; in aestivation, meeting the 
edges without overlapping. 
Valve. One of the pieces into which a capsule splits. 
Vascular. Furnished with vessels or ducts. 
Veins. Threads of fibro-vascular tissue in a leaf or other organ, especi- 
ally those which branch (as distinguished from nerves). 
Ventral. Belonging to the anterior or inner face of an organ ; the oppo- 
site of dorsal. 
Ventricose. Swelling unequally, or inflated on one side. 
Vernation. The arrangement of leaves in the bud. 
Verrucose. Covered with wart-like elevations. 
Versatile (anther). Attached near the middle and turning freely on its 
support. 
Vertical. Perpendicular to the horizon ; longitudinal. 
Verticillate. Disposed in a whorl. 
Vesicle. A small bladder or air-cavity. 
Vesicular, vesiculose. Composed of or covered with vesicles. 
Villous. Bearing long and soft hairs. 
Virgate. Wand-shaped ; slender, straight and erect. 
Viscid. Glutinous, sticky. 
Whorl. An arrangement of leaves, etc., in a circle around the stem. 
Wing. A membranous or thin expansion bordering or surrounding an 
organ ; the lateral petal of a papilionaceous corolla. 
Woolly. Clothed with long and tortuous matted hairs. 
