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Pulveratum folium. A leaf powdered with a kind of dust like 

 meal, as in Primula farinosa. 



Punctatum folium. A leaf sprinkled with hollow dots or points. 



Putamineae. Like a shell, a natural Order of plants in the Frag- 

 ments methodi naturalis of Linnaeus. 



Q. 



Quadrangulare folium. A quadrangular leaf. Having four 



prominent angles in the circumscription of its disk. 

 Quadrisidium/oZi'um. A leaf divided into four parts. 

 Quadrijugum/oZiMw. A leaf having four pair of foliolae. 

 QuadrilobumybZz'um. A leaf consisting of four lobes. 

 Quadripartitum folium. A leaf consisting of four divisions 



down to the base. 

 Quaterna folia. When verticillate leaves are by fours, having 



four in each whorl e, as the Herb Paris, Class viii. 

 Quina folia. Verticillate leaves produced by fives. 

 QLuinatum/oZzum. When a digitate leaf has five foliolae. 

 Quinquangulare folium. A leaf having five prominent angles 



in the circumscription of the disk. 

 Quinquejugum/oZizm. When a pinnated leaf has 5 pairof foliolae. 

 Quinquelobum yb/nzwi. A leaf having five lobes. 

 QuinquefidumybZzwTrt. A leaf consisting of five divisions with 



linear sinus and straight margins. 

 Quinquepartitum folium. Consisting of five divisions down to 



the base. 



R. 



Racemus, A bunch of grapes or currants, or any other bunch 

 of berries or flowers having that resemblance, as the Bar- 

 berry. See Class vi. Order 1. 



Rachis. The back bone. A species of receptaculum, as in 

 the Panicum. 



Rachis/o/ii pinnati. The middle rib of a winged leaf, to which 

 the foliolae are affixed ; as in the Mimosa, Class xxiii. 



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