pedately 



peltate 



ped'ately cleft = : PEDATIFID ; ~ 

 veined, = PEDATINERVED ; pedat'- 

 ifid, pedatif'idus (flndo, fidi, cleft/), 

 divided in a pedate manner nearly 

 to the base ; pedatiform'is (forma, 

 shape) = PEDATIFID ; pedatilo'bus, 

 pedatiloba'tus, pedatilo'bed (Xo/36s, 

 earlap), palmate, with supplemen- 

 tary lobes at the base ; peda'ti- 

 nerved, peda'tinervis (nerrus, a 

 nerve), when the midrib stops 

 short, and two strong lateral nerves 

 proceed from its base, giving rise 

 to others which extend only to the 

 apex ; pedatipar'tite, pedati/>arti'- 

 tus (partitus, divided), with pedate 

 venation, and the lobes nearly free ; 

 pedat'isect, pedatisec'tus (sectns, 

 cut), pedately veined, the divi- 

 sions nearly reaching the midrib. 



Ped'estal (pes, pedis, a foot, stela, a 

 column), the persistent base of a 

 leaf which disarticulates from it, 

 cf. PULVINUS. 



Pedicel, Pedicd'lus (pedictd-us, a small 

 foot), (1) an ultimate flower-stalk, 

 the support of a single flower ; (2) 

 in Hydropterideae the sporophore ; 

 pedicellate, pedicMa'tus, pediculaf- 

 tus J, borne on a pedicel ; Pedicle 

 = PEDICEL; Pedicel'lulus (dim. of 

 pedicdlus), a filiform support to 

 the ovary in certain Compositae ; 

 Pedic'ulus, (1) = PEDICEL; (2) the 

 stalk of the apple and other fruits ; 

 (3) the filament of an anther, as ~ 

 Anthe'rae. 



pedif erus (pes, pedis, a foot, fero, I 

 bear), furnished with a stalk or 

 support (Henslow) ; Pedilis, the 

 contracted upper portions of the 

 calyx tube in such florets of 

 Compositae as have a stipitate 

 pappus ; pedila'tus, furnished with 

 a PEDILIS ; Pedun'cle, Pedunc'ulus, 

 the general term for the stalk of a 

 flower, it may also bear a cluster of 

 single flowers ; peduncularls, re- 

 lating to a peduncle or a m idifica- 

 tion, as pediiucular'es Cir'rhi, ten- 

 drils proceeding from a peduncle ; 

 pedunc'ulate, peduncula'tus, pedun- 

 culo'siis, furnished with a footstalk ; 



pedunculea'nus, with a modified 

 state of the peduncle (Henslow). 



Peel, the rind or skin of fruit ; Grew 

 spells it " Pill." 



Peg. an embryonic organ at the lower 

 end of the hypocotyl of seedlings 

 of Cucumis, Gnetum, etc., lasting 

 till the cotyledons are withdrawn 

 from the testa. 



pela'gian = pelagic (ireXayos, the sea), 

 inhabiting the open ocean, as dis- 

 tinct from the shores. 



pellos (ireXtos), black, livid. 



Pel'licle, Pellic'ula (Lat., a small 

 skin), a delicate superficial mem- 

 brane, epidermis ; pellicularls, 

 having the character of a pellicle ; 

 pelli'tus (Lat., covered with skin), 

 " skinned, deprived of skin or ap- 

 parently so " (Lindley). 



pellu'cid, pellu'cidus (Lat., trans- 

 parent), wholly or partially trans- 

 parent. 



pelog'enous (TT^AOS, clay, ytvos, off- 

 spring), applied by Thurmann to 

 those rocks which yield a clayey 

 detritus, and the plants which 

 thrive thereon ; pelophllous (<iAew, 

 I love), Warming's variation of the 

 same ; pelopsam'mic (i/'d^o?, sand), 

 yielding clay and sand ; pelopsam- 

 mog'enous, giving rise to clayey 

 sand (Thurmann). 



Pelor'ia (TreAw/Hos, monstrous), an ir- 

 regular flower become regular by an 

 exceptional development of comple- 

 mentary irregularities ; irreg'ular 

 ~ by the symmetric multiplication 

 of the irregular portions ; reg'ular 

 ~ by the suppresssion of the ir- 

 regular parts ; Pelorisa'tion, the 

 process of conversion of a flower 

 to a regular form, from its normal 

 irregular form. 



Pel'ta (Lat., a target), (1) the round 

 shield-like apothecium of Peltidea, 

 etc. ; (2) a bract attached by its 

 middle, as in Peppers ; pel'tand 

 (findo, fidi, to cleave), when a 

 peltate leaf is cut into segments ; 

 pel'tate, pdta'tus, target-shaped, aa 

 a leaf attached by its lower surface 

 to a stalk, instead of by its margin ; 



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