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76 DICTIONARY. OF 
PoLYANDRIA, many stamens. “The title of a Clafs, which see. 
PoLyGamia, the title of the 23d Clafs in the Linnzan system. 
The plants it contained are now distributed amongst the 
other clafses according to the number of the Stamens. 
PoLYGAMIA-NECESSARIA, the title of the 4th Order of the 
. ..Clafs Syncewesia.. See introduction to that Clafs, as 
also for. 2g hed} : 
/ ———_— AIQUALIS. = Rold-oge 
SUPERFLUA. 
FRUSTRANEA. 
And SEGREGATA. 
PoOLYPETALUS, nape petaled, (flower,) having m more ‘ion one 
Petalyj-4 ©: * 
PoLyPHYLLvs, many leaved, (Calyx, &c.) of more than one 
5 oe, ' Z 
PoLYSPERMA, many seeded, 
Poystacuy vs, many spiked. q 
~ Pomum, a fleshy or pulpy seed vefsel without valves, covering — 
a Capsule. which contains the toads as in the Appia and 
‘Pear. Pl. 5,. £20: 
Pores (pori) little holes. At the inner sida of the base of the, 
petals, in all the species of Ranunculus. or Crowfoot, are” 
little pores filled: with; Seana See also 9s 34 3, (he) 
Posticus, hinder part. _ = 
- Pouca, a short pod; see Pod. 
Premorsvs, as if bitten off. f , 7 
Pressep To (adprefsus) see Contiguous. 
Prick es (aculei) sharp-pointed weapons of defence, formed 
from the bark, and not from the woody part of a, plant 
_ The prickles of the Ruse ave a familiar anal P1105 
£2. (a.a)iand (6.63) © 
Prick Ly (aculeatus) armed with prickles. 
PRICKLY-POINTED (cuspidatus) get it suddenly in a. hard 
sharp point. | « ; : 
PRISMATICUS, sce ? 
PrisM-SHAPED (prismaticus) differing. i cylindrical in be 
= circumference, being angular, as the cup, of the vhecesricne™” 
ProcumBeEns, trailing. 
Bi 4 
_ Protrrerous (proliteri flores) vs Buossoms ; . aha one . grows 
_ out of another, as is not uncommon in the Polyanthus. 
Pro.ireRous SHoors; when one shoot springs out of an- 
a other, as in the Hypnum p 
Stem; when an othasnine unbranched, stem 
sends. out a number of branches from its top. _ 
Puoin ey Projecting (partition) when it stands out bey yond 
ProMirene (prominens) the partition ofa. janine is said 
o be prominent when it projects beyond the valves, | asin L 
weuiane and many other plants of. ta tes namia C 
hopes the under surface of a leaf, . . en 
