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Pnunorse. Bitten oft' The same as abrupt. 



Prickle. The prickle differs from the thorn in being fixed to 



the bark only and not to the wood. 

 Prismatic. Having several parallel, flat sides. 

 Procumbent. Lying on the ground. 

 Proliferous. An umbel or flower is said to be proliferous when 



it has smaller ones growing out of it. 

 Pseudopinnate. Falsely or imperfectly pinnate, not resolving 



at any time into separate leafets ; as the Tea, Vetch, Lc. 

 Pubescent. Hairy or downy. 

 Pulp. The soft, juicy, cellular substance found in berries and 



similar fruits. 

 Pulverulent. Dusty. Composed of powder, or appearing as if 



covered with it. 

 Punctate. Appearing as if pricked full of small holes, or dots. 

 Punctiform. Resembling dots. 

 Pungent. Sharp, acrid, pricking. 

 Pulamen. A hard shell. 



Q 



Quaternate. Four together. 



Quinale. Five together. 



R 



Raceme. A cluster; a kind of inflorescence in which the 

 flowers are arranged by simple pedicels on the sides of a 

 common peduncle ; as the Currant (Ribes.1 



Rachis. The common stalk to which the florets and spikelcts 

 of grasses are attached. Also the midrib of some leaves and 

 fronds. 



Radiate. Having ligulate florets placed like rays at the cir- 

 cumference, in certain compound flowers 5 as in White- 

 weed or Ox-eye Daisy ; or having the outer petals or flowers 

 largest, as in certain cymes and umbels. 



Radical. Growing immediately from the root. 



Radicle. The part of the corculum which afterwards forms the 

 root. Also the minute fibre of a root. 



Ray. The diverging florets or petals which form the outside of 

 radiate flowers, cymes, and umbels. 



Receptacle. The end of a flower stalk ; being the base to which 

 most or all the parts of fructification are attached. 



Reclined, or Recli?iing. Bending over, with the end inclining 

 toward the ground ; as in the Bramble. 



Recurred. Curved backwards. 



Reflextd. Bent backward, more than recurved. 



Reniform. Kidney shaped. Heart shaped without the point. 



Repand. Slightly wavy or serpentine at the edge. 



Resupinale. Turned upside down ; as the corolla of Trichos- 

 tema. 



Reticulate. Net like. Having veins distributed like net work. 



