Va´riegated, marked with different colors; mottled; same as Papilionaceous.
Vari´ety, a subdivision of a species with minor characteristics uniformly varying from the type; an incipient species.
Vas´cular (vasculum, a small vessel), consisting of, relating to or furnished with vessels or ducts.
Vaul´ted, arched like the roof of the mouth.
Veil, Ve´lum (velum, a veil), a covering of various texture more or less completely enwrapping a fungus; occurring chiefly among the Agaricini; partial or marginal veil, a special envelope extending from the margin of the pileus to the stem enclosing the gills; universal veil or volva, a special envelope enclosing the entire plant in the young state, either concrete with the cuticle of the pileus as in Lepiota or discrete as in Amanita, ultimately ruptured by the expanding pileus, a membranaceous or fibrous or granulose coating stretched over the mouth of an apothecium or cup soon breaking into fragments.
Veins, swollen wrinkles on the sides of, and at the base between the gills, often connected to form cross partitions, (b) so-called, the rounded, obtuse-edged gills found upon Cantharellus, Craterellus, (c) the vein-like protuberances upon the surface of some fungi.
Vel´iform, Velamen´tous (velum, covering; forma, form), resembling or serving as a veil; of a thin veil-like covering.
Ve´lum, veil.
Velu´tine, Velu´tinous (velutum, velvet, + ine), velvety.
Ve´nate, Veined, Ve´nose, Ve´nous (vena, vein, artery), intersected by swollen wrinkles below and on the sides.