is fixed in the disk instead of the margin, like the 
handle of a shield. 
Peltately-cordate, between heart-shaped and peltate. 
Peltately-rayed, rayed in a peltate manner. 
Peltate-nerved, the nerves of a leaf disposed in a 
peltate manner, radiating from the centre. 
Pencilled, marked in lines as with a pencil, or 
having the appearance of hair pencil, as the 
stigmas of numerous species of Ovalis. 
Pencil-formed, resembling a hair pencil. 
Pendulous, drooping, hanging down. 
Pentagonal, having five angles. 
Pentagynous, having five styles. 
Pentandrous, having five stamens. 
Pentapetalous, having five petals. 
Perennial, lasting many years without perishing. 
Perfoliate, when the stem passes through the base . 
of a leaf, the leaf is said to be perfoliate. 
Perforated, bored, or apparently so, full of holes. 
Perianth, Perianthium, the envelope which surrounds 
the flower. This term is applied when the calyx 
cannot be distinguished from the corolla, as in 
Lilium, Allium, &c. 
Pericarp, the seed-vessel. 
Perichetial, leaves which in mosses surround the 
base of the stalk of the theca. 
Perigone, the calyx and corolla. 
Perigynous, inserted in the calyx, or in the disk 
which adheres to the calyx. 
Perisperm, the same as albumen, which see. 
Peristome, the rim which surrounds the orifice of 
the theca of a moss. 
Peripheric, circular, curved. 
Perithecium, Peridium, different kinds of envelopes 
of the reproductive organs of Fungi. 
Permanent, 
Persistent, 
Pervious, having a passage through which any thing 
can be transmitted. 
Petal-like-scales in Caryophyllex, the scales which 
are fixed to the petals at the throat. 
Petalled, having petals. 
Petaloid, like petals. 
Petals, divisions of a corolla. 
Petia \ having footstalks. 
Petiolar, of or belonging to the petioles. 
Petioles, footstalks of leaves. 
Petiolulate, having little petioles. 
Petiolules, little petioles. 
Phenogamous, such plants as are visibly furnished 
with sexual organs. ` 
Pharmaceutical, relating to the art of pharmacy. 
Phthisis, relating to the lungs. 
Phyllodium, a dilated petiole, with the consistence 
of a leaf. 
Pili, long stiffish hairs. 
Piliate, having a cap or lid like the cap ofa mushroom. 
Piliferous, bearing hairs. 
Pilose, covered with long soft hairs. 
Pilosely-hairy, covered with long hairs. 
Pilosely-hispid, beset with stiff long hairs. 
Pilosely-pubescent, covered with longish pubescence. 
Pilosely-scabrous, covered with long stiff hairs. 
Pilosely-strigose, beset with unequal stiff hairs. 
Pilosely-tomentose, covered with longish tomentum. 
Pimpled, covered with minute pustules, resembling 
pimples. 
Pinne, Pinnule, the leaflets of a pinnate leaf. 
Pinnate, aleaf is so called when it is divided into 
numerous smaller leaves or leaflets, as the leaves 
of the ash. 
Pinnately-cut, cut in a pinnate manner. 
Pinnately-decompound, compounded in a pinnate 
manner, 
Pinnately-lobed, lobed in a pinnate manner. 
Pinnate-parted, divided into lobes in a pinnate 
manner, but not exactly to the base. 
Pinnately-multifid, pinnate, and having the leaflets 
finely-multifid. 
Pinnately-quinate, having 5 leaflets disposed in a 
pinnate manner. 
\ remaining, not falling off. 
GLOSSARY. 
Pinnatifid, a leaf is so called when it is divided 
into lobes from the margin uearly to the mid- 
rib. 
Pinnatifidly-sinuated, scolloped in a pinnatifid man- 
ner: pinnatifidly-lyrate, lyrate in a pinnatifid man- 
ner; pinnatifidly-serrated, serrated in a pinnatifid 
manner; pinnatifidly-runcinate, runcinate in a pin- 
natifid manner; pinnatifidly-toothed, toothed in a 
pinnatifid manner ; pinnatifidly-lobed, lobed in a 
pinnatifid manner, &c. 
Pisiform, formed like a pea or peas. 
the columnar body in the centre of a 
flower, consisting commonly of three 
parts, viz. the ovary, styles, and 
stigmas. 
Pitchers, hollow leaves, so called. 
Pith, medulla, occupying the centre of a stem or 
shoot. 
Placenta, that part of the capsule which the seeds 
are attached to. 
Placentarivus, having placentas, acting as a placenta, 
bearing the seeds. 
Placentiferous, bearing placentas, 
Plane, flat. 
Plethoric, having a full habit. 
Plicate, plaited, 4, 5, or G-plicate, having 4, 5, or 6 
plaits. 
Plumose, feathery, resembling feathers. 
Plumule, the centre bud between the cotyledons in 
the embryo of a plant. 
Plurilocular, having many cells. 
Pod, a kind of seed-vessel, such as that of the pea 
tribe. 
Podosperm, the stalk on which some seeds are borne. 
Pollen, powder contained in the anthers, composed 
of globules, containing the fecundating fluid; on 
leaves the bloom. 
Polyandrous, having more stamens than 20 inserted 
in the receptacle. ; 
Polygamous, a plant is said to be polygamous when 
some flowers are male, some female, and others 
hermaphrodite on the same plant. 
Polygamo- Dicecious, having male and female flowers 
on the same plant. 
Polymorphous, assuming various appearances. 
Polypetalous, having many petals. 
Polyphore, an elongated receptacle, which bears 
many ovaries, but not the petals nor stamens. 
Polyspermous, containing many seeds. 
Pome, an apple or pear, or such like fruits, crowned 
by the calyx. , 
Pores, apertures in the cuticle through which tran- 
spiration takes place, or apertures in the an- 
thers through which the pollen is ejected. 
Porrect, extended forward. 
Pouch, a little sack or bag at the base of some petals 
and sepals. 
Powdered, 
Powdery, 
Præmorse, appearing as if bitten off. 
Precocity, ripe before the usual time. 
Pressed, close, not spreading. 
Primordial, usually applied to leaves, the first leaves. 
Prismatic, formed as a prism. 
Proboscis-like, having a beak, form of a trumpet, 
curved. 
Process, protrusions either natural or mon- 
Processes, strous. 
Proliferous, a plant is said to be proliferous when it 
produces young plants about its root in abun- 
dance. 
Propendent, hanging forwards and downwards. 
Pruinose, covered with glittering particles, as if fine 
dew had been congealed upon it. 
Pruinosely-velvety or pubescent, covered with short 
glittering down. 
Prurient, stinging. 
Pseudospermous, a false seed, a small carpel, as those 
of Ranunculus and Clematis. 
Puberulous, covered with spreading down. 
Pubescence, down, short soft hairs. 
Pubescent, covered with pubescence. 
Pistil, 
Pistillum, 
covered as if with powder. 
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Pubescently-pilose, covered with soft pressed hairs. 
Pubescently-tomentose, covered with dense short 
white down. 
Pulverized, reduced to powder. 
Pulvinate, become cushion-shaped. 
Punctate, covered with dots. 
Punctately-warted, covered with little warts like dots. 
Punctiform, formed like little points or dots. 
Pungent, stinging or pricking. 
Pustular, \ covered with glandular excrescences 
Putulan $ like pustules. 
Pustules, pimples or little blisters. 
Putamen, a nut of many cells. 
Pyramidal, formed like a pyramid. 
Pyramidately-subulate, thick at the base, and narrow 
at the apex. . 
Pyriform, shaped like a pear. 
Pyxidiform, a capsule is called a pyxidium when 
it divides transversely into two cells. 
Q. 
Quadrangular, having four angles. 
Quadrate, square. 
Quadrately-divaricate, branching in such a manner 
as to form a square. — 
Quadrifarious, arranged in four rows or ranks. 
Quadrifariously-imbricated, arranged in four rows 
and imbricated. 
Quadrifid, divided four times, or divided into four 
parts. 
Quadripinnate, four times pinnate. 
Quadruple, four times. 
Quaternary, arranged by fours, or succeeding by 
fours. 
Quinary, arranged by fives or succeeding by fives. 
Quinate, in fives. 
Quinate-pinnate, having five leaflets disposed in a 
pinnate manner. 
Guin thd divided into five. 
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Quintuple, five times. . 
R. 
Raceme, a particular arrangement of flowers, when 
they are arranged around a simple filiform axis, 
each particular flower being stalked. 
Racemiferous, bearing racemes. 
Racemose, disposed in racemes. 
Racemosely-corymbose, disposed in a manner between 
a corymb and a raceme, or numerous raçemes 
forming a corymb. 
Racemosely-panicled, disposed in a manner between 
a raceme and panicle, or numerous racemes form 
ing a panicle. 
Racemose-corymbs, between a raceme and a corymb. 
Racemules, small racemes. 
Rachis, that part of a culm which runs-up through 
the ear of corn, and consequently the part that 
bears the flowers in other plants ; also the common 
petiole of a pinnate leaf. 
a flower is said to be so when in a 
cluster or head of florets, those 
Rayed, of the circumference or ray are 
Radiant, long and spreading, and unlike 
Radiate, those of the disk. A.stigma is 
Radiating, said to be rayed or radiant when 
it is divided like the rays of a star, 
5-6-rayed, having 5-6-aneles. 
Radical, of or belonging to the root, or proceeding 
from the root. 
Radicant, rooting, roots proceeding from the stem. 
Radicle, the root of an embryo. 
Radius, the ray of a compound flower. 
Rameai, of or belonging to the branches. 
Ramenta, little brown withered scales, with which 
the stems of some plants, especially ferns, are 
covered. . 
Ramentaceous, covered with ramenta or scales. 
