Palmni 



Papayotin 



Pal'mTU (Lat. , the palm of the hand), 

 as a measure may denote a Span 

 or a Palm, nine inches or three, 



pala'dal {palus, a marsh), H. C. 

 Watson's term for natives of 

 marshes, wet all through the year ; 

 parudine, palu'dinous (Crozier) = 

 parudose, paludo'sus (Lat., boggy), 

 growing in marshy places. 



palumbi'nus (Lat., of wood-pigeons), 

 lead-coloured. 



palus'ter (Lat. , swampy) ; palua'trine, 

 palus' tris, inhabiting boggy ground; 

 the latter Latin form is more usual 

 in botanic usage. 



Ptun'pas, the grass-steppes of South 

 America, xerophilous in charactei", 

 patchy, with taller grasses than 

 meadows have ; usually with two 

 periods of rest, caused by drought 

 in summer and cold in winter. 



pam'piniform {pampimis, a tendril; 

 forma, shape), resembling the ten- 

 dril of a vine; Pampino'dy {eUos, 

 resemblance), the change of foliar 

 parts into tendrils (Worsdell). 



Pan, a hard layer or substratum of 

 earth impervious to plant-roots. 



Pan-apos'pory (irSs, itavTi^s, all ; + 

 Apospouy), the condition of pro- 

 thalli being developed apo.sporously 

 over the entire surface of the frond. 



pan'ary, cf. pannaey. 



pan'dorate, pandura'tua {2}andura, a 

 musical instrument), fiddle-shaped, 

 as the leaf of liumex pulcher, Linn. ; 

 pandu'riform {forma, shape), fiddle- 

 shaped, drawn in at the middle. 



Pangen'esis (way, rtavrhs, all ; ytveais, 

 a beginning), a theory that each 

 separate unit of a body throws ofi' 

 minute gemmules during all stages 

 of development, whii-h may develop 

 at once, or remain dormant and be 

 transmitted through the repro- 

 ductive cells to later generations; 

 Pak'gens, De Vries's term for the 

 active particles assumed in Dar- 

 "Win's theory of Pangenesis; Pan- 

 gen'osomes (crw/ia, a boily), pi Stras- 

 burger's teiTn for a complex of 

 pangens. 



Panicle, Panic'iUa (Lat., a tuft). 



a loose flower - cluster, as a 

 branched raceme or corymb ; pan'l- 

 cled, furnished with a panicle ; 

 panic 'ulate, panicula'tus (Lat.)» 

 having an inflorescence of the kind 

 described ; panic 'uliform {forma, 

 shape), panicle-shaped (Crozier). 



Panifica'tion ipanis, bread ; facto, I 

 make), the fermentative changes by 

 which dough is converted into breads 



Panmiz'ia {-rras, iravrls, all ; /xffij, a 

 mixing), Weismann's term to de- 

 note the agency of modification or 

 evolution which results from the 

 cessation of natural selection. 



pan'nary {j)anis, bread), pertaining to 

 bread, or suitable for making it 

 (Crozier) ; more correctly pan'ary. 



Pannexter'na {pannus, a cloth ; ex- 

 ternus, outside), =Epicarpium; 

 pan'niform, panncform'is {forma, 

 shape), having the appearance or 

 texture of felt or woollen cloth ; 

 Panninter'na {internus, within) = 

 Endocarpium; panno'sus (Lat., 

 ragged), botanically, the same as 

 panniform. 



panphotomet'ric (Tray, Travrhs, all ; (pias, 

 (pwrhs, light; jxirpou, a measure), used 

 of leaves which adapt their position 

 to both direct and difl"used light 

 (Wiesner) ; Pansperm'ism (o-irep/io, 

 a seed), the universal difl'usion of 

 germs throughout the atmosphere. 



pantachob'ryus J {iramaxn, on every 

 side; fipvaj, I grow), growing in a 

 circular manner. 



pantOg'enous (iras, rravrls, all; yivos, 

 race, off'spring), applied to those 

 Fungi which grow everywhere, and 

 nre not confined to a single host ; 

 pantotac'tic (ra/crbs, arranged), used 

 of the position of the sori in Tri- 

 chomanes reniformc, where they may 

 arise from any vein. 



Papa'in, a peptic enzyme from Carica 

 Papaya, Linn. 



papavera'ceous, belonging to, or re- 

 sembling the poppy, Papaver ; 

 papa'verouB, resembling a poppy. 



Papayo'tin, the dried leaves of Carica 

 Papaya, containing a digestive 

 enzyme. 



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