Ventral; contained in, or belonging to, the belly.
Ventral suture. The line or seam of a carpel, or folded leaf, formed by thermion of its margins; the opposite of dorsal.
Ventricose. Bellied; swelling oat in the middle, or belOwiL Vernation. The mode in which young leaves are folded and packed in a bud.
VerrUCO8C, Warty;cove•ed with wart-like excrescences. Versatile anther. When it is fixed by the middle on the pdiut of the filament, and moves round lightly and readily, as in the grasses, etc.
Vertical, or vertically ; in a perpendicular direction; from the zenith, or highest point, directly downwards. Vertical leaves. When they stand edge up, or preannt their margins and not their faces—to the earth and sky; indicative rather of phyllodia, than of true leaves. Verticil. A whorl; flowers, leaves, or other organs, arranged in a horizontal ring, round a stem, or as its summit.
Verde/taster. A apnriona verticil; a condensed cyme, or cluster resembling a verticil, as in many Labiatce. Verticillate; growing or arranged in a verticil, or, whorl, or horizontal ring.
Vesicles. Little bladder-like vessels.
Vesicular, or vesieedose; made of, or resembling little bladders.
Vespnrtine flowers. Thoee which expand in the evening. Ve cilium. The banner, or broad upper petal of a pant. lionaceoue corolla.
Valose, or villons. Velvety; clothed with-numerous, and rather long, soft hairs.
Filtue (plural, villi). The velvet-like pubescence' on e villoua plant. Vireseent • inclining to, or becoming green.
Virgate. Wand-like; long, slender, and straight. V rid.scent; greenish.
Viscid. Clammy; covered with a sticky or adhesive moisture.
Viscid pubescent; with a clammy pubescence.
Vittce. Fillets; linear receptaclea of oily matter on the carpels of umbelliferoue plants.
Vintpurous; producing a collateral offspring'brineans of bulbs; or having the seeds to germinate before-they are detached from the parent plant.
VolubUe; ascending spirally,. or climbing by embracing another object. (See Twining.) Wavy. (See Undulate.) • : Whorl. (See Verticil.) Winged; having a thin, extended margin.
Wings. The aide petals of a papilionaceoue corolla; also, , the membranous expansion at the summit or margin of certain pericarpe, and on the sides of some , Wooly; clothed with a long curled or matted pobeacenesie resembling wool.