Putamen 



quadrifoliolate 



Puta'men (Lat., shells, rind), (1) the 

 shell of a nut ; (2) the hardened 

 endocarpof stone-fruit ; putamina'- 

 ceus ( + aceus), having the texture 

 of the stone of a drupe. 



Pyc'nid, Pyc'nide, Pycnid'ium, pi. 

 Pycnid'ia (TTVKVOS, dense), a cavity 

 resembling a pyrenocarp in 

 Lichens, etc., containing gonidia 

 (pycnoconidia or stylospores) ; 

 Pycnidlophore (<j>opw, I carry), a 

 compound sporophore bearing 

 pycnidia; pycnoceph'alous (Ke0aX?}, 

 a head), thick-headed, as when 

 Composite flower-heads are clus- 

 tered closely; Pycnid'iospore (cnropd, 

 a spore), a tpore produce.d in a 

 pycnidium ; Pycnoconid'ium ( + 

 CONIDICM), a conidium produced in 

 a pycuidium, a stylospore ; Pycno- 

 gonid'ium ( + GONIDIUM) = PYCNO- 

 CONIDIUM ; Pyc'nospore (a-rropd, a 

 seed) = PYCNOCONIDIUM ; pycnos'- 

 tachous (o-raxus, a spike), in com- 

 pact spikes. 



pygmae'us (Lat.), dwarf, pygmy. 



pyogenet'ic (TTVOV, pus, yeveffis, begin- 

 ning), pus-forming, the function of 

 certain bacteria. 



pyracan'thus (irvp, fire, &Kai>9a, a 

 thorn), with red or yellow spines. 



pyramidal, pyramida'lis (Lat. ), pyra- 

 mid-shaped. 



Py'rene, Pyre'na (irvpyv, kernel or 

 stone), (1) a nucule or nutlet; (2) 

 a small stone of a drupe, or similar 

 fruit ; Pyrenar'ium, a pear-fruit, 

 pome-like, but tapering ; Pyren- 

 a'rius, a drupaceous pome, as in 

 Crataeyus ; Pyre'nin, Schwarz's 

 term for the constituent of 

 the biuly of the nucleus ; cf. 

 AMPHIPYKENIN ; Pyre'nium ; an old 

 name for the receptacle of Sphaeri- 

 aceous Fungi : Pyre'nocarp (Kctpirot, 

 fruit) (1) = PEKITHECIUM ; (2) = 

 DRUPE ; adj. pyreaocar'pous ; py- 

 reno'deous (eldos, resemblance), like 

 a pyrenoid, wart-like; pyreno'dine, 

 "globular and nuclear" (Leighton); 

 Py'renoid (elSos, resemblance), 

 minute rounded granular colourless 

 bodies, embedded in the chromato- 



phores, amylum-centres (Schmitz); 

 Pyrenoli'chenes( + Lichen), Wainio's 

 term for Pyrenomy'cetes, that is, 

 Fungi possessing perithecia. 



Pyrid'ion (pyrus, or pirus, a pear), 

 used by Linnaeus for the pear- 

 fruit, a tapering pome ; pyrif erous 

 (fero, I bear), pear-shaped ; py'ri- 

 form, pyriform'is (forma, shape), 

 resembling a pear in shape. 



pyx'idate, pyxida'tus (Lat., box-like), 

 furnished with a lid, as some cap- 

 sules ; Pyxid'ula J = Pyxid'ium, 

 Moench's term for the fruit of 

 Amaranthus, a dehiscent capsule, 

 sometimes used for the following : 

 Pyx'is, (1) a capsule with circum- 

 scissile dehiscence, the upper 

 portion acting as a lid ; (2) J the 

 theca of a Moss ; (3) " the same as 

 Scyphus" (Lindley). 



quadran'gular, q uadrany n fa r' ( Lat . ) , 

 four - cornered ; quadran'gulus, 

 quadrangula'tus (Lat. ), having four 

 angles, which are usually right 

 angles. 



Quad'rant (quadrans, a fourth part), 

 the quarter of an oospore, which 

 is so divided by the ~ Wall ; quad- 

 ricap'sular'( + CAPSULA), having four 

 capsules ; quadricotyledo'neus ( + 

 COTYLEDON), apparently with four 

 cotyledons, each normal cotyledon 

 being divided to the base ; quad- 

 ricru'ral, quadricru'ris (crus, cruris, 

 a leg), with four supports ; quadri- 

 den'tate (dentatus, toothed), having 

 four teeth ; quadridigita'to-pin- 

 na'tus (digitus, a ringer), with four 

 digitate divisions, each of which is 

 pinnate ; quadridigita'tus, divided 

 into four divisions ; Quadriere'mus 

 ( + EREMUs) = CoEis 7 OBiuM ; quadri- 

 far'ious, -rius (Lat., fourfold), in 

 four ranks, as leaves ; quad'rifid, 

 quadrifidus (Lat.), four - cleft, 

 to about the middle or below ; 

 quad'rifoil (folium, a leaf) = quad- 

 rifo'liate, when the petiole bears 

 four leaflets at the same point ; 

 quadrifoliolate, strictly, with four 

 subordinate leaflets, but sometimes 



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