i*ALMATE, webbed, like the feet of some water birds : Birds, fig. n. 



Deeply divided into iobos like the lingers on the hand : plate 2, 



fig. 5 ; piate 4, fig. 22. 

 PANDEll.EFORM, shaped something like a fiddle or ancient guittar: 



plate 4, fig. 38. 

 PANICLE, a kind of inflorescence where the flowers are scatered on 



stalks variously or irregularly divided : plate 7, fig. 4. 

 PAPILIONACEOUS, applied to an irregular corol, shaped something 



like a biittcrlly on the wing : plate 6, fig. 16. 

 PAPILLOUS, having the surface covered witn fleshy dots or pimples: 



plate 4y fig. 54. 

 PAPULOUS, pimply or blistered. 



PARABOLIC, having the longitudinal diameter exceeding the trans- 

 verse one, and narrowing from the base into a half ovate. 

 PASSER l!]S, the sixth order of birds, or such as have a conic sharp- 

 pointed bill and slender divided toes. 

 PATELLAE, soft orbicular raised moveable bodies at the base of th« 



thighs in same inserts, as the ichneumon genus. 

 PECORA, the fifth order of the class mammalia, comprehending those 



which have no front-teeth in the upper jaw, and whose feet are 



hoofed and cloven. 

 PECTINATE, cut into regular straight segments, like the teeth of 



a comb. 

 PEDATE, deeply cut into segments connected with the petiole on th% 



inner-side aniy, like a bird's foot : plate 5, fig. 5. 

 PEDICEL, a partial or lesser flower-stalk : plate 7, fig. 2 ; «• 

 PEDUNCLE, the stem supporting the flowers or fruit. ' 

 PELTATE, target-shaped. Having the stalk inserted iu the disk of th« 



leaf, and not in the edge : plate 3y fig. 11. ; 6. 

 PENNACEOUS, feathered like the web of a quill. 

 PEN'TAGYNIA, having 5 styles. 

 PENTANDRIA, the fifth class of vegetables, comprising such berma* 



phrodite plants as have 5 stamina : ^i/«^e 1, fig. 5. 

 PERFOLIATE, surrounding the stalk on every side, as if it passed 



through its centre. 

 PERIANTH, the calyx of a flower when close to the other parts o£ 



fru(^rification : plate 6, fig. % a, 

 PERICARP, the vessel containing the seed : plate 8, fig. 7. 

 PERISTOME, the fringe or teeth surrounding the mouth of the capsula 



in mosses. 

 PERSONATE, an irregular corol having 2 lips which are closed : 



])latc 6, fig. 14. 

 PETAL, one of the leaves of a corol when it has more than one : 



plate 6, fig. 9. 

 PETx\LOID, resembling a petal. 



PETIOLE, the stalk supporting a leaf: piate 5, fig. 3. 

 PETIOLULE, a partial petiole connecting the leafct of a compound 



leaf with the main petiole. 

 PHOSPHORESCENT, emitting light in the dark. 



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