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VOCABULARY. 
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Transverse. Crosswise. 
Trichot omnus. T h ree-forked. 
Trifidl Three-cleft. 
Trifoliate. Three-leaved. 
Trilo'bate. Three-lobed. 
Triloc'ular. Three-celled. 
Trun'cate. Having a square termina¬ 
tion, as if cut off’ 
Trunk. The stem or bole of a tree. 
Tube. The lower hollow cylinder of a 
monopetalous corolla. 
Tuber. A solid fleshy knob. 
Tuberous. Thick and fleshy, contain- 
ing'tubers, as the potato. 
Tubular. Shaped like a tube, hollow. 
Tu'nicane. Coated with surrounding 
layers, as in the onion. 
Turgid. Swelled, inflated. 
Turbinate. Shaped like a top, or pear. 
Twining. Ascending spirally. 
Twisted. Coiled. 
U 
Vligino'sus. Growing in damp places. 
Umbiiicate. Marked with a central de¬ 
pression. 
Umbel. A kind of inflorescence in 
which the flower-stalks diverge from 
one centre, like the sticks of an um¬ 
brella. 
Umbelliferous. Bearing umbels. 
Umbo. The knob in the centre of the 
hat or pileus of the fungi tribe, origi¬ 
nally the top of a buckler. 
Unarmed. Without thorns or prick¬ 
les. 
Uncinate. Hooked. 
IJnctuo'sus. Greasy, oily. 
Un'didate. Waving, serpentine, gently 
rising and falling. 
Unguis. A claw. 
Unguic ulate. Inserted by a claw. 
Unifo'rus. One-flowered. 
Unions. Single. 
Unilat'eral. Growing on one side. 
Urce'olate. Swelling in the middle, 
and contracted at the top in the form 
of a pitcher. 
Utricle. A little bladder, a term ap¬ 
plied to capsules of a peculiar kind. 
- Y 
Valves. The parts of a seed-vessel in¬ 
to which it finally separates; also the 
leaves which make up a glume, or 
spatha. 
Variety. A subdivision of a species, 
distinguished by characters which 
are not permanent. 
Vaulted. Arched; with a concave cov¬ 
ering. 
Veined. Having the divisions of the 
petiole irregularly branched on the 
under side of the leaf. 
Ven'tricose. Swelled out. See Inflated. 
Vermifuge. A medicine for the cure of 
worms. 
Vernal. Appearing in the spring. 
Verrucose. Warty, covered with little 
protuberances. 
Vertical. Perpendicular. 
Verticil'late. Whorled, having leaves 
or flowers in a circle round the stem. 
Vesicular. Made up of cellular sub¬ 
stance. 
Vespertine. Flowers opening in the 
evening. 
Vex’illum. See Banner. 
Vii'lose. Hairy, the hairs long and soft. 
Viola'ceous. Violet-coloured. 
Villus. Soft hairs. 
Vires'cens. Inclining to green. 
Virgate. Long and slender. Wand-like. 
Vir'idis. Green. 
Virgultum. A small twig. 
Virose. Nauseous to the smell, poison¬ 
ous. 
Viscid. Thick, glutinous, covered with 
adhesive moisture. 
Vitel'lus. Called also the yolk of the 
seed ; it is between the albumen 
and embryo. 
Vit'reus. Glassy, 
Viviparous. Producing others by 
means of bulbs or seeds, germinating 
while yet on the old plant. 
VuVnerary. (From vulnus , a wound.) 
Medicines which heal wounds. 
W 
Wedge-form. Shaped like a wedge, 
rounded at the large end, obovate 
with straightish sides. 
Wheel-shaped. See Rotate. 
Wings. The two side petals of a pa¬ 
pilionaceous dower. 
Wood. The most solid parts of trunks 
of trees and shrubs. 
Z 
Zool'ogy. The science of animals. 
Zo'ophytes. The lowest order of ani¬ 
mals, sometimes called animal plants, 
though considered as wholly belong¬ 
ing to the animal kingdom. Many 
of them resemble plants in their form, 
and exhibit very faint marks of sen¬ 
sation. 
