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Umbelliferous. Bearing umbels. 
Unarmed Without thorns or prickles. 
Uncinate. Hooked. 
Unctuosus. Greasy, oily. 
Undulate. Waving serpentine, gently rising and falling. 
Unguis. A claw. 
Unguiculate. Inserted by a claw. 
Uniflorus. One flowered. 
Unicus. Single. 
Unilateral. Growing on one side. 
Urceolate. Swelling in the middle, and contracted at the top in the 
form of a pitcher. 
Ve 
Valves. The parts of a seed vessel into which it finally separates, also 
the leaves which make up a glume or spatha. 
Variety. A subdivision of a species distinguished by character which 
are not permanent; varieties do not with certainty produce their 
kind by their seed. All apples are but varieties of one species; if 
the seeds of a sour apple be planted, perhaps some will produce 
sweet apples. 
Vaulted. Arched over; with a concave covering. 
Veined. Having the divisions of the petiole irregularly branched on 
the under side of the leaf. 
Ven’tricose. Swelled out. See Inflated. 
Vernal. Appearing in the spring. 
Ver’rucose. Warty, covered with little protuberances. 
Vertical. Perpendicular. 
Verticil/late. Whorled, having leaves or flowers in a circle round the 
stem. 
Vesic’/ular. Made up of cellular substance. 
Vesper’tine. Flowers opening in the evening. 
Vil/lous. Hairy, the hairs long and soft. 
Viola’ceous. Violet coloured. 
Vires’cens. Inclining to green. 
Vir'gate. Long and slender. Wandlike. 
Vir’idis. Green. 
Virgul’tum. A small twig. 
Vi'rose, Nauseous to the smell; poisonous. 
Viscid. ‘Thick, glutinous, covered with adhesive moisture, 
Vitel’lus. Called also the yolk of the seed; it is between the albumen 
and embryo. 
Vil/reus. Glassy. 
Vivip’arous. Producing others by means of bulbs or seeds germina- 
ting while yet on the old plant. 
Vul/nerary, (from vulnus, a wound,) medicines wi.ich heals wounds. 
Ww. 
Wedge-form. Shaped like a wedge, rounded at the large end, obovate 
with straitish sides, 
