Chapter XXV: Section XIX: Botanical Work (3)

_Venation_, the veining of leaves, &c., 50.

_Venenate_, poisonous.

_Venose_, veiny; furnished with conspicuous veins.

_Ventral_, belonging to that side of a simple pistil, or other organ, which looks towards the axis or centre of the flower; the opposite of dorsal; as the

_Ventral Suture_, 106.

_Ventricose_, inflated or swelled out on one side.

_Venulose_, furnished with veinlets.

_Vermicular_, worm-like, shaped like worms.

_Vernal_, belonging to spring.

_Vernation_, the arrangement of the leaves in the bud, 71.

_Vernicose_, the surface appearing as if varnished.

_Verrucose_, warty; beset with little projections like warts.

_Versatile_, attached by one point, so that it may swing to and fro, 101.

_Vertex_, same as _apex_.

_Vertical_, upright, perpendicular to the horizon, lengthwise.

_Verticil_, a whorl, 68. _Verticillate_, whorled, 68.

_Verticillaster_, a false whorl, formed of a pair of opposite cymes.

_Vesicular_, bladdery.

_Vespertine_, appearing or expanding at evening.

_Vessels_, ducts, &c., 134.

_Vexillary_, _Vexillar_, relating to the

_Vexillum_, the standard of a papilionaceous flower, 92.

_Villose_, shaggy with long and soft hairs (_Villosity_).

_Vimineous_, producing slender twigs, such as those used for wicker-work.

_Vine_, in the American use, any trailing or climbing stem; as a Grape-vine.

_Virescent_, _Viridescent_, greenish; turning green.

_Virgate_, wand-shape; as a long, straight, and slender twig.

_Viscous_, _Viscid_, having a glutinous surface.

_Vitta_ (plural _vittae_), the oil-tubes of the fruit of Umbelliferae.

_Vitelline_, yellow, of the hue of yolk of egg.

_Viviparous_, sprouting or germinating while attached to the parent plant.

_Voluble_, twining; as the stem of Hops and Beans, 39.

_Volute_, rolled up in any way.

_Wavy_, the surface or margin alternately convex and concave, 55.

_Waxy_, resembling beeswax in texture or appearance.

_Wedge-shaped_, broad above, tapering by straight lines to a narrow base, 53.

_Wheel-shaped_, 89.

_Whorl_, an arrangement of leaves, &c., in circles around the stem.

_Whorled_, arranged in whorls, 68.

_Wing_, any membranous expansion. _Wings_ of papilionaceous flowers, 92.

_Winged_, furnished with a wing; as the fruit of Ash and Elm, fig. 300, 301.

_Wood_, 133, 142. _Woody_, of the texture or consisting of wood.

_Woody Fibre_, or _Wood-Cells_, 134.

_Woolly_, clothed with long and entangled soft hairs.

_Work in plants_, 149, 155.

_Xanthos_, Greek for yellow, used in compounds; as _Xanthocarpus_, yellow-fruited.

_Zygomorphous_, said of a flower which can be bisected only in one plane into similar halves.

Transcriber's Notes.

In the Latin-1 text version, the oe-ligature was simply replaced by the two separate characters. Other non-Latin-1 symbols were replaced by "[Symbol ...]," where the ellipsis was replaced by an explanation of the symbol. The occurrence of the Greek delta character in the glossary for Deltoid was replaced by "Delta."

Spelling variants where it wasn't possible to determine the author's intent were left as is. These include: "backbone" and "back-bone;" "Buttonwood" and "Button-wood;" "cross section" and "cross-section;" "footstalk" and "foot-stalk;" "network" and "net-work;" "Paeony" and "Peony;" "peapod" and "pea-pod," plus plurals; "penniveined" and "penni-veined," plus capitalized versions; "Sapwood" and "Sap-wood;" "Snowball" and "Snow-ball;" "Verticil" and "Verticel;" "Woodsorrel" and "Wood-sorrel."

Changed "Venation" to "Vernation" on page vi: "Vernation or Praefoliation."

Changed "Isoetes" to "Isoetes" on page viii: "Quillworts (Isoetes)."

Changed "liquifies" to "liquefies" on page 21: "as it liquefies."

Changed "frame-work" to "framework" on page 52: "the framework or skeleton."

Changed "leafstalk" to "leaf-stalk" in three places: the caption to figure 74; on page 71: "bent upon the leaf-stalk;" in the index entry for "Petiolulate."

Changed "Honey Locust" to "Honey-Locust" in the caption to figure 95: "branching thorn of Honey-Locust."

Page 47 has a reference to Fig. 89, which does not seem to follow from the text. "Fig. 80" would make more sense, but the original was not changed.

Removed extra comma before closing parenthesis on page 51: "the Maple (Fig. 20, 24)."

Changed "Linnaeus" to "Linnaeus" on page 50: "Linnaeus called Nerves."

Changed "Sugar-Maple" to "Sugar Maple" on page 58: "that of the Sugar Maple."

Changed "quadrifoliate" to "quadrifoliolate" on page 59: "trifoliolate, quadrifoliolate, plurifoliolate."

The reference to Fig. 167 on page 64 is probably intended to refer to Fig. 157, but was not changed.

The caption to figure 186 says that this is a two-ranked arrangement. Although it's clear from the text and figure that this is actually a three-ranked arrangement, the original text was preserved.

Changed colon to semi-colon in the caption to figure 219: "a, filament; b, anther."

Changed comma to period after "Fig. 254" in its caption.

Changed "Funnel-form" to "Funnelform" on page 90: "Funnel-shaped, or Funnelform."

Inserted closing parenthesis in caption to figure 304: "Of a Sage (Salvia Texana)."

Changed "Butter cup" to "Buttercup" on page 120: "fruit of the Buttercup."

Changed "carpophorse" to "carpophore" on page 121: "a slender axis or carpophore."

Changed "cocoanut" to "cocoa-nut" on page 122: "such as the cocoa-nut."

Changed "Sepifragal" to "Septifragal" on page 123: "Septifragal dehiscence."

Inserted missing text "(Fig." on page 128: "Rice (Fig. 430a)."

Perhaps the reference to unit 408 on page 136 should be to unit 402; but it was not changed.

Changed "White-Pine" to "White Pine" on page 148: "White Pine and Basswood."

Changed "discovary" to "discovery" on page 160: "discovery of a wholly unsuspected kind."

Changed "sporo-carps" to "sporocarps" in the caption to figure 520.

Changed semi-colon to period after "microspores" in the caption to figure 522.

Changed "Lepreiurei" to "Leprieurei" in the caption to figure 561.

Changed "Sun-flowers" to "Sunflowers" on page 187: "Sunflowers and Thistles."

Changed symbol for Earth to symbol for Male on page 189 in unit 581: "To indicate sexes, [Symbol for Male] means staminate."

Preserved the order of the index entries, even though they aren't strictly alphabetical.

Removed extra comma after "Amphitropous" in its index entry.

The index references for "Anemophilous" and "Entomophilous" should probably be 115, rather than 113, but were not changed.

The index reference for "Antheridium" should probably be 159, rather than 150, but was not changed.

Changed "short-fluited" to "short-fruited" in the index entry for "Brachy-."

The index references for "Caulescent" and "Cauline" should probably be 38, rather than 36, but were not changed.

The index reference for "Cladophylla" should probably be 61, rather than 64, but was not changed.

The index reference for "Dotted Ducts" should probably be 134, rather than 148, but was not changed.

Changed "trifoliate" to "trifoliolate" in the index entry for "Foliolate."

Changed "6" to "13" in the index entry for "Gemmule."

The index references for "Hemitropous" and "Heterotropous" should probably be 111, rather than 123, but were not changed.

The index reference for "Hortus Siccus" was changed from 201 to 186.

The index reference for "Incised" should probably be 55, rather than 58, but was not changed.

The index reference for "Jointed" is 64, and was not changed even though it does not seem to make sense. Better candidates include 57 and 122.

The index references for "Laticiferous" and "Milk-vessels" were changed from 138 to 135.

Changed the last index reference for "Ligule" from 57 to 67; also the reference for "Ocreate."

Changed comma to semi-colon after "86" in the index entry for "Naked."

The index reference for "Panicle" should probably be 76, rather than 81, but was not changed.

The index references for "Pentandrous" and "Triandrous" should probably be 100, rather than 112, but were not changed.

Changed "leaf stalk" to "leaf-stalk" in its index entry, as well as the index entry for "Petiole."

The index reference for "Pinnule" should probably be 59, rather than 66, but was not changed.

The index reference for "Seed-vessel" should probably be 117, rather than 127, but was not changed.

The second index reference for "Starch" is 163, and was not changed even though it does not seem to make sense.

Changed "one" to "on" in the index entry for "Stipules": "appendages on each side."

The index reference to page 37 for "Suffruticose" doesn't seem to make sense, but was left as is.

The index reference for "Trigynous" should probably be 105, rather than 116, but was not changed.

The index reference for "Unequally Pinnate" should probably be 58, rather than 65, but was not changed.