210 GLOSSARY AND INDKX. 



Personate, masked; a bilabiate corolla with njmlnle in the throat, 92. 



Perfuse, perforated with a hole or slit. 



]'< ruliitf, having scales (Pi /',/ i. -nch as bud-scales. 



Pes, pedis, Latin for the foot or support, win-no- Lunyipes, long-stalked, &c. 



Petal, a leaf of the corolla, 14, T'.i. 



J'.tnlody, inetamorplioM> of Manieiis, \.-.. into petals. 



Ptt<il"i'i. J'< talint . petal-like; resembling or colored like petals. 



Petiole, a footstalk of a l.-af : a l-af stalk, 40. 



Pfiinled. Petinlntc, furnished with a petiole. 



Petiolulnte, said of a leaflet when raised on its own partial leafstalk. 



Petrceus, Latin for growing on rocks. 



Phalanx, phalanyes, bundles of stamens. 



Phcenoganwus, or Phanerogamous, plants bearing flowers and producing 



same as Flowering Plants. Phcenor/ams, Phanerogams, 10. 

 Pklceum, Greek name for bark, whence Endqphl&um, inner bark, &c. 

 Phosniceous, deep red verging to scarlet. 

 Phycvloyy, the botany of Alga\ 



Phylloclndia, branches assuming the form and function of leaves. 

 Phyllodium (]ilnral, /*//////'/<' o, a leaf where the seeming blade is a dilated petiole, 



as in New Holland Acacias, 61. 



Phyllome, foliar parts, those answering to leaves in their nature. 

 Phyllon (plural, plnjlla), Greek for leaf and leaves; used in many compound terms 



and names. 



Phyllotaxis, or Phyllotaxy, the arrangement of leaves on the stem, 67. 

 Physiological Botany, 9. 



Phytography, relates to characterizing and describing plants. 



Pliyton, or Phytninti; a name used to designate the pieces which l.y their repetition 

 make up a plant, theoretically, viz. a joint of stem with its leaf or pail of leaves. 

 Pileus of a mushroom, \~-. 



Piliferous, bearing a slender bristle or hair (pilum), or beset with hairs. 

 Pilose, hairy; clothed with soft slender hairs. 



J'innti, a primary division with its leaflets of a bipinnate or tripinnate leaf. 

 Pinnule, a secondary division of a bipinnate or tripinnate leaf, C6. 

 Pinnate (leaf), when leaflets are arranged along the sides of a common petiole, 57. 

 Ptnna/ely lobed, cleft, parted, diridi'il, r, in< 'I, 56. 



J'innfitijiil, Pinnatisect, same as pinnately clelt and pinnately parted, 56. 

 Pisiform, pea-shaped. 



Pistil, the seed-lieaiing organ of the flower, 14, 80, 105. 

 Pistillate, having a pistil, 85. 



Pistilliclium, the body which in Mosses answers to the pistil, 159, 164. 

 Pitchers, 64. 



Pith, the cellular centre, of an exogenous stem. 138. 



Tl'ii-cnta, the surface or p:irt of tin- ovary to whkh the ovules are attached, 107. 

 Pliiftntifiirm, nearly same as quoit-shaped. 

 Plaited (in the bud), or Plicatt-, folded, 7:2, 98. 



Platy-, Greek for broad, in compounds, Mich as Platyphyllout, broad-leaved, &c. 

 Pleio-, Greek for full or abounding, used in compounds, such ta Pleiopetaluus, oi 



many petals, &c. 



Plumbeus, lead-colored. i , 



Plumose, featliery : when any slender body (such as a bristle of a pappus or a sty.e; 



islieset with hairs along its sides, like the plume of a feather. 



Plumule, (lie hud or lirst shoot of a germinating ]>lantle! above the cotyledons, 13. 

 Plttri-. in composition, many or several; as Plurifuiiolut,', with several leaflets. 

 Pod, speciallv a legume, 122; also may be applied to any sort of capsule. 

 Podium, a footstalk or stipe, used only in Creek compounds, as (siith'xed) Lepto- 

 podus, slender-stalked, or (prefixed) Podocephalus, with a stalked head, and 

 in Podosperm, a seed stalk or funiculus. 

 Pogon, Greek for beard, comes into various compounds. 



