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Persistent, used as the oppos‘te of caducous or deciduous; continuing 
attached for a long period of time, 
Personate, tubular corolla with a palate closing its throat. 
Petal, one of the leaves of a corolla. Petaloid, petal-like, 
Petiole,the leaf stalk, Petiolate, having a petiole, 
Petiolule, the stalk of a leaflet. Petiolulate, having a petiolule. 
Pilose, hairy with soft, usually long straight hairs. 
Pinna, primary division of a compound frond, Pimnule, secondary division of 
a frond twice or more compounds 
Pinnate, resembling a feathers; used of leaf-venation in which lateral veins 
arise at intervals from a principal mid-vein or of compound leaves in 
Pinnatisect pinnately dissected, 
ich the leaflets are arranged on both sides of a common median rib, 
as in the Rose. Pinnatifid, used of leaves pinnately lobed or cut 
but still not compound. 
Pistil, the central female organ of a flower in which the ovules (and eventually 
the seeds) are formede Pistillate, used of flowers having pistil but 
no stamensSe | 
Placenta, a s’rface bearing ovules, 
Plane, flat, not curvede 
licate, folded as in a fan, 
Plumose, having fine soft hairs arranged as in a feather. 
Pod, a dry dehiscent fruit. 
Pollinia, the waxy pollen-masses found in the orchid and milkweed families, 
Polygamous, bearing both perfect and imperfect flowers, 
Pome, the fleshy fruit of certain Rosaceae, as in the apple and pear, 
Poricidal, opening by means of pores. 
Posterior, rear; the side toward the axis. 
Prickles, spine-like projections of the bark which separate with it, as in 
the Rosée 
