BOTANICAL TERMS. 75 
Pistit,orPornTat ; a part of a flower, composed of theGrr~ 
‘MEN, the Styie, and the Summit. Look into the blos- 
som of a Plumb or Cherry, and in the centre you will see 
the Pistil surrounded by the Stamens. In the blofsom of 
the Apple, or Pear, you will perceive five Pistils in the 
centre, In the Deadnettle you will find the Pistil covered 
by the upper lip, and forked at the top. In the centre of 
the blofsom of the White Lily, the Pistil stands surrounded 
by six Stamens. In this flower the GermeEN, which is the 
lower part of the Pistil, is long, cylindrical, and marked 
with six furrews ; next above this part is the SryLe, which 
is long and cylindrical ; and, at the top of se 9 is ~ 
Summit, which is thick and triangular. See pl. 3 
(d.e.f.) £.7. Gk 4) £5. (c. die.) 
PisT1LLiFEROUS flowers or florets, such as contain one or 
more Pistils, but no Stamens. 
PiTCHER-SHAPED forcacietus). heer | or eae out bared | 
common jug. 
Piru (inanis) a soft spongy substance filling mere the cavity in 
some plants ; 3 as in the Rush and the Elder. 
TTED (lacunc m) when the surface ofa leaf lies in hollows 
“Between the veins. *' 
PLarrep (plicatus) folded in plaits ; as the blofsom of Concol- 
vulus ; the cup of Thrift ; and the leaves of Ladies-mantle, 
Vind: be ots 
PLanus, flat. 
Pienvs (flos) a double-tiofeomed flower, 
Pricatus, plaited. 
-Piumosvs, feathered. 
Pop Berge ) a seed-vefsel of two valves, withinwhich the seeds 
ed alternately to each seam. When long, it is 
called a long pod, as in Gilliflower ; when broad and short, 
it is called a short pod, or pouch, as in i Ss pa 
herd’s Purse. PI. 5. f. 10. f. 11. f, 12. f 13, 
PornTAt, see Pistil. ‘ 
PeintTING from two opposite Liv gs. ‘See (cereal: 
7 one Way (secundus) as the flowers of the Forglove, 
the Cock’s-foot, and the Sheep's Fescue Grafs. Pl. 2. £.13.(d.) 
PoueN, Farina, or Dust, a fine powder contained in the An- 
thers of flowers: it is too minute for the ae ee 
examine, but by the afsistance of a microscope, it a 
very different in different plants: Thus in the y Gera 
nium itis a perforated glo ral Seber iteoer ti the 
Wares when in the Pansie it is. iangular ; i 
arcifsus kidney-shaped ; and in r 
double. Pl. 3. f, 5. f) An Anther dich 
pollen ; f. 8. a particle of the pollen greatly magr Sa 
Pouzex, an inch; see measure, 
PoLYADELPHYA, Seiniadl t's oxiemorswekai being anited by 
the filaments. The title of « Chath; ‘which see.’ poe 
