BOTANICAL TERMS. 73 
PANICLED Spike ; anafsemblage of flowers partaking the pro- 
ies of a panicle and a spike; as the Wall Fescue, and 
the Manured Canary Grafs, in which the collections of 
florets resemble a spike in their general appearance, but 
the florets are furnished with fruit-stalks, shorter than 
themselves. 
PariLionacews, butterfly-shaped. 
PaPILLosus, pimpled. 
Pappus, down. 
PaRALLELvs, parallel. 
ParasiticaL (parasiticus) VEGETABLES; not taking root 
in the earth, but growing upon other vegetables, ‘Thus 
Misletoe is found to grow upun the Apple Tree, thePear, 
the Lime, the Elm, the Poplar, the Hawthorn, and the 
Buckthorn, but never upon the ground. 
PartiaL (partialis) exprefsive of a part, not of the whole. 
Thus the Umbellules, or small Umbels, composing a large 
Umbel, are sometimes called partial Umbels; and the 
Involucellum or fence at the base of these partial Umbels,. 
is somatinge’ ‘called the partial Involucre. mit f. 9. 
“(a.d.ded) 
Pa RTITION ( Gaepenenters} the substance dividing seed-veie 
into different cells, Thus the seed-vefsel of Seve baad 
is divided into three cells ; and if you cut a Lemon acrofs, 
you will plainly see the partitions that divide it into nine 
cells, “See also pl. 5. f, 12 (5. b.) f. 14. (0. b. 6. b.) | 
Partitws, divided, 
PaTENs, expanding, 
PATULUS, open. bb Bay 
PrctinatuM, comb-like, leaf. ta 
PrpatuM, bird-footed. 
PEDICELLUS, little fruit-stalk, or pedicle. i 
Pepicte, a little fruit-stalk, or partial fruit-stalk, being that 
part of a compound or heanched fruit-stalk, which is the 
immediate support of a single flower or floret, or spiket. 
_ It is also sometimes used to exprefs the little pillar which 
supports the down in some of the compound flowers. ~~ 
PEDUNCULATUS, growing on a fruit-stalk, a to see 
Hp Sermo 
PELTA,: 
Pentarom, target-shaped ae 
ENCIL-SHAPED penton) ik like a caine balty penci 
the summits of Millet, or the appendages tothe bltoms 
of the Meadow Milkwort. Pi. 2£ 41: (c. CF SAL 
PEeniciLLiFrorMis, pencil-sl 
Penpanr (pendulus) hanging wn; as the bunches of the Red 
7 wed the cones of th of the Benteh Hr 5 j the Ramen oh 
PenTacoyus, S-comered, 
