GLOSSARY ANI> INDEX. 215 



Paraphi/fes, jointed filament* mixed with the entheridia of Mbeset« 



Parotitic, living a> a parasite, i. <•. <>n another plant or animal, 37. 



Parenchemytous, composed of parenchyma. 



Parenchyma, soft cellular tissue of plants, like the green pulp of leaves, 132. 



Parietal (placenta'. &c.), attached to the walls (patietes) of the ovary. 



Paripmnate, pinnate with an even number oJ Leaflets. 



/'arte/, separated or cleft into parts almost t<> the base, 55. 



Partkenogi \netis, producing seed without fertilization. 



Partial involucre, same as an involved; partial /n(i<>l<. a division of a main leaf- 

 stalk or the stalk of a leaflet: partial peduncle, a branch ol a peduncle: par- 

 tial uinln I, an umbellet, 7t». 



Partition, a segment of :\/><irt<</ leaf; or an internal wall in an ovary, anther, &c. 



Patelli/orm, disk-shaped, like thepatella or kneepan. 



Patent, spreading, open. Patulous, moderately b< reading. 



Pauci-, in composition, few; as paucifiorous, few-flowered, &e. 



Pear-shaped, solid obovate, the shape of a pear. 



Pectinate, pinnatifid or pinnately divided into narrow and close divisions, like the 

 teeth of a comb. 



Pedate, like a bird's foot; palmate or palmately cleft, with the side divisions again 

 cleft, as in Viola pedata, &c. 



Pedicel, the stalk of each particular flower of a cluster, 73. 



Pedicellate, PediceUed, borne on a pedicel. 



Pedalis, Latin for a foot high or long. 



Peduncle, a flower-stalk, whether of a single flower or of a flower-cluster, 73. 



Peduncled, Pedunculate, furnished with a peduncle. 



Peloria, an abnormal return to regularity and symmetry in an irregular flower; com- 

 monest in Snapdragon. 



Peltate, shield-shaped; said of a leaf, whatever its shape, when the petiole is at- 

 tached to the lower side, somewhere within the margin, 53. 



Pelviform, basin-shaped. 



Perulent, hanging. Pendulous, somewhat hanging or drooping. 



Penicillate, Penialtiform, tipped with a tuft of tine hairs, like a painter's pencil; as 

 the stigmas of some Grasses. 



Pennate, same as pinnate. Penninerred and Penniveined, pinnate v veined, 51. 



Penta- (in words of Greek composition), five; as Pentadelphous, 99; Pentngynous, 

 with live pistils or Btyles; Pentatnerous, with its parts in live-, or on the plan of 

 five; Pentandrous, having five stamens, 112; Pentastichous, in five ranks, &c. 



Pepo, a fruit like the Melon and Cucumber, 119. 



/'i r< nnial, lasting from year to year, 38. 



Perfect (flower), having both stamens and pistils, SI. 



Perfoliate, passing through the leaf, in appearance, 60. 



Perforate, pierced with holes, or with transparent dots resembling holes, as an 

 Orange-leaf. 



Peri-, Greek for around: from which are such terms as 



P> ri mtli, the leaves of the flower collectively, 7'.». 



/'< ricarp, the ripened ovary; the walls of the fruit, 1 17. 



/'. ricarpic, belonging t<> the pericarp. 



Perigonium, Peri gone, same sa perianth, 



Perigynium, bodies around the pistil; applied to the closed cup or hottle-shaped 

 body (of bracts) which encloses the ovary of Sedges, and to the bristles, little 

 scales, &c., of the Sowers of some other Cyperacess. 



Perigynous, the petals and stamens borne on the calyx, 96, 99. 



Peripheric, around the outside, or periphery, of any organ. 



Perisperm, a name for the albumen of a -<-, d, 



/'. nstomt , iii.- fringe of teeth to tin spore i ase -t M 



nt, remaining beyond the period when such parts commonly fall, a- thu 

 leaves of evergreens, and the calyx of such (lowers a- persist during the growth 



of the fruit. 



