villanette (vilanet)

[ villanize villanizet, v. t. See villainize. villanizert, n. See villainizer. villanous, villanously, etc. See villainous, etc. Villarsia (vi-lär'si-ä), n. [NL. (Ventenat, 1803), named after the French botanist Dominique Villars (1745-1814).] A genus of gamopetalous plants, of the order Gentian aceæ and tribe Menyantheæ. It differs from Menyanthes (the type) in its usually four-valved capsule, and its entire or irregular ly sinuate leaves. There 12 species, natives of South Africa and Australia. They are herbs, with long stalked radical leaves, numerous yellow or white flowers in cymes which are loosely panicled, or crowded into corymbs, or condensed into an involucrate head. Several species, as V. calthifolia and V. reniform is, sometimes known as Renealmia, are cultivated in aquariums under the name of marsh - buttercups.