XXXH 
Multangular, many-cornered 
Muricated, covered with sharp 
points 
N 
Navicular, boat-shaped 
Nectary, honey-cup, part of flower 
designed to secrete and contain 
hone 
Ni cateal flowers without stamen or 
pistils, and producing no seeds 
Node, knot 
Nucule, a little nut 
O 
Obconie, inversely conic 
Obcordate, inversely heart-shaped 
Obovate, inversely egg-shaped, that 
is, with the small end down- 
wards 
Obsolete, indistinct 
Octofid, eight-cleft 
Olivaceous, having the quality of 
olives 
Operculum, lid 
Orbiculate, round and flat 
Osseous, hard as bone 
Ovate, egg-shaped 
Ovate-lanceolate, egg spear-shaped 
= 
Palate, the inner part of the mouth 
of gaping blossoms 
Paleaceous, ¢ 
Palmate, hand-shaped 
Panduriform, fiddle-shaped 
Panicle, an assemblage of flowers 
growing upon subdivided fruit- 
stalks, as in oats and some grasses 
Papilionaceous, butterfly-shaped 
Papillose, pimpled 
~ Parasitical, growing on some other 
plant, not on the ground 
tite, divi 
vided 
rtia | peduncle, or little 
Pedunculate, growing on a fruit- 
tall = ; 
_ Peltate, when the stalk is fixed in 
the disk, instead of the margin 
Pendulous, hanging down 
Pentagonal, five-cornered si __ag in currants 
Pentapetalous, five petals 
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GLOSSARY OF BOTANICAL TERMS. 
Pentaphyllous, five-leaved 
Perennial, continuing for several 
years 
. Perfect flower, having both stamens 
and pistils 
Perforated leaf, full of small holes, 
very apparent when held up to 
the light 
Perfoliate, the stem passing through 
the leaf 
Perianth, cup or calyx 
Pericarp, seed-vessel 
Perichetial leaves, surrounding the 
base of the fruit-stalk in mosses 
Peristome, the rim surrounding the 
mouth of the capsule in mosses 
Permanent, applied to calyxes, etc., 
remaining on the plant till, the 
fruit is ripe 
Personate blossom, gaping 
Petaliform, resembling a petal 
Petal, the coloured leaves which 
constitute the blossom 
Petiolate, having leaf-stalks 
Petiole, a leaf-stalk 
Pileus, a cap of a fungus 
Pilose, hai 
Pinnatifid, feather-cleft 
Pinnated, winged, a compound leaf, 
formed of several little leaves fast- 
ened to each side of it 
Pinnulate, when each pinna is sub- 
divided 
Pistil, part of the flower standing 
in the centre, and composed of 
germ, style, and summit 
Plicate, plaited 
Plumose, feathered 
Pod, a seed-vessel 
Pollen, the dust contained in the 
anther of flowers 
Polypetalous, many-petalled 
‘umbent, trailing 
Proliferous, when one blossom grows 
out of another 
oe covered with soft wool 
or 
Punctated, dotted 
Q 
Quinate, growing in fives 
R 
Raceme, a cluster of flowers, attached 
by a pedicle to a common stalk ; 
his, the common stalk, or recept. 
