Vicia sativa, leaflet converted into a tendril in.

VICUNAS, selection of.

VILLOSITY of plants, influenced by dryness.

VILMORIN, cultivation of the wild carrot. -colours of tulips. -uncertainty of inheritance in balsams and roses. -experiments with dwarf varieties of Saponaria calabrica and Tagetes signata. -reversion of flowers by stripes and blotches. -on variability.

Vinca minor, sterility in.

VINE. -parsley-leaved, reversion of. -graft-hybrid produced by inosculation in the. -disease of, influenced by colour of grapes. -influence of climate, etc., on varieties of the. -diminished extent of cultivation of the. -acclimatisation of the, in the West Indies.

Viola, species of.

Viola lutea, different coloured flowers in.

Viola tricolor, reversion in.

VIRCHOW, Prof., on the growth of bones. -on cellular prolification. -independence of the elements of the body. -on the cell-theory. -presence of hairs and teeth in ovarian tumours. -of hairs in the brain. -special affinities of the tissues. -origin of polypoid excrescences and tumours.