Pasteurization 



pectiniferoui 



fermenting liquids by heating to 

 about 140 Fahr., so as to germinate 

 and then destroy, Fungi and their 

 spores contained in the fluids treated 

 (Crozier). 



Pas'tids, an error for Plastids 

 (Zimmermann). 



Pat'anas, pi., grass-lands in Ceylon 

 derived from savannah woodland 

 (Pearson). 



Patella (Lat., a small dish), an orbi- 

 cular sessile apothecium, with a 

 marginal rim distinct from the thal- 

 lus ; patellar'oid {elSos, likeness), 

 resembling a patella ; pateriiform, 

 patelliform'is (forma, shape), shaped 

 like a small dish, circular and 

 rimmed; Patel'lula, a diminutive 

 patella ; pateriulate, possessing 

 patellulae. 



pa'tent, pat'eris (Lat.), spreading ; 

 patentis'simus (Lat.), extremely 

 spread out. 



pat'eriform {patera, a dish or saucer, 

 forma, shape), saucer-shaped. 



Path-fl'nders = Honey-guides, lines 

 of colour leading to nectaries ; -^ 

 poiut'ers, defensive protection, such 

 as prickles, etc., against undesirable 

 insect- visitors (Kerner). 



pathogenic, pathog'enous {vieos, 

 suflFering, disease ; yivos, race, off- 

 spring), producing disease ; Patho- 

 gene'ity, the quality of disease - 

 giving ; Pathol'ogy {K6yos, dis- 

 course), the science of diseases; 

 Veg'etable -^j that department or 

 botany which treats of plant 

 diseases. 



patrocli'nous {var^p, father ; KXivo), 

 to slope), displaying the characters 

 of the naale parent (De Vries). 



pat'olouB, -lus (Lat.), standing open, 

 spreading. 



paaoiflor'oas, -rus {paucxis, few ; flos, 

 fioris, a flower), few flowered ; panoi- 

 fo'Iins (folium,, a leaf), having :few 

 Jeaves ; paucijuga'tus {jugum, a 

 yoke), with only a few pairs of 

 leaflets in a pinnate leaf. 



Paol'oipore {irav\a, a pause), Klebs's 

 term for Chlamydospore. 



Panper^Qulae, pi. {pauperculust rather 



poor), depauperate generations, as 

 the dwarf-males of Oedogonium, etc. 

 (A. Braun). 



pau'siacus {pausia, a kind of olive), 

 olive-green. 



pavoni'nas (Lat., pertaining to a pea- 

 cock), peacock-blue. 



pear-formed, '^ shaped, obovoid or 

 obconic with a tapering base. 



Pearl-glands, structures in Pterosper- 

 mum, javanicum, etc., contained in 

 cups serving as food-bodies for ants ; 

 the cups are probably meta- 

 morphosed stipules (Raciborski). 



pearl-grey, *' pure grey, a little verg- 

 ing to blue " (Lindley). 



Peat, the soil formed on moors; 

 eutroph'ic '^, fen- peat ; meso- 

 trophlc -^ , from transitional moors ; 

 oligotrophlc '^, moor- peat. 



P^brine' (Fr.), a disease of silkworms 

 caused by Nosem/i Bombycis, Naeg., 

 a bacterial organism ; it is also 

 named Gattine. 



pecop'teroid, resembling the fossil fern 

 PecopUris ; pecopt'erid means the 

 same. 



Peo'tase {irr\Krhs, coagulated), an 

 enzyme which forms vegetable jelly 

 from pectic substances occurring in 

 the cell-wall. 



Pec'ten (Lat., a comb) J = Sterigma. 



pec'tic {trr^Krhs, coagulated), relating 

 to pectin, as pec'tic Acid, supposed 

 to form a large part of fruit-jelly ; 

 Pec'tin, or Pec'tine, a jelly-like 

 substance in fruits ; cf. Pectose ; 

 pectina'ceous (+ aceous) ; resembl- 

 ing pectin ; gelatinous ; Pec'tinase, 

 a cytolytic enzyme. 



peo'tinate, pectina'tus (Lat., like a 

 comb}, pinnatifid with narrow seg- 

 ments set close like the teeth of a 

 comb; pec'tinatory, applied by De 

 Bary to two series of vascular 

 bundles whose members alternate 

 with each other as the teeth of two 

 combs. 



Peo'tines, pi. {pecten, a comb), fimbriae 

 on the corolla of some Gentians, 

 constituting the corona (Huxley). 



peotinif erous {/era, I bear), used of 

 a characteristic brown coating of 



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