376 GLOSSARY 
Osier-like. Long and lithe (shoots of willow or dogwood). 
Ovate. Shaped like the section of an egg. 
Ovoid. Egg-shaped. 
Palmate. The same as digitate. Contrasted with pinnate. 
Panicle. A branched cluster of stalked flowers (lilac). 
Panicled. In panicles. 
Papery. Firm but thin, as applied to leaves. 
Papillate. Much the same as granular, the granules more 
elevated. 
Papillately hairy. With short thick hairs, or hairs from 
papillae. i 
Parted. Much the same as divided, when applied to leaves or 
stipules. 
Pedicel. The stalk of an individual flower in a flower-cluster. 
Pedicel- or peduncle-scar. The scar from which a flower or 
flower-cluster has fallen. 
Peduncle. The stalk of a flower-cluster, or of a _ solitary 
flower. 
Pellucid-dotted or punctate or glandular. With translucent 
dots when held to the light (orange leaf). 
Peltate. Attached to a stalk nearly by its center (scales of 
oleaster). 
Percurrent. With the main trunk continued through to the 
top: contrasted with deliquescent. 
Persistent. Not deciduous, as applied to leaves: not disap- 
pearing, as applied to pith, pubescence, epidermis, etc. 
Petals. Modified leaves forming the inner floral envelope. 
Petiole. The leaf-stalk; rarely: (nandina) persistent after the 
rest of the leaf has fallen. 
Petioled or petiolate. With a petiole: stalked, as applied to 
leaves. 
Petiolule. The petiole or stalk of a leaflet. 
Phyllodia. Dilated petioles taking the place of foliage 
(acacia). 
