GLOSSARY. 01 



PELTATE, target-shaped. 

 PENTAGONAL, five-angled or cornered. 

 PERSISTENT, abiding in leaf during the winter. 

 PETIOLE, leaf-stalk. 



PETIOLED, ~1 



}> stalked. 

 PETIOLATED,J 



PHyENOGAMOUS, whose principle of fecundation is ap- 

 parent. 



PINNA, the lateral offshoot from the main stem, when 

 perfect leaf, or perfect leafy branch ; secondary 

 or partial, the smaller branch springing from 

 the primary one. 



PINNATE, having lateral offshoots distinctly cut down 

 to the stem. 



PINNATIFID, having incomplete branches or leaves, 

 their divisions not reaching down to the stem. 



PINNULE, the leaf on a branch. 



PISTIL, the fertile filament, or little column, in the in- 

 terior of a flower or blossom. 



POLLEN, the fecundating farina of a plant. 



POLYSTICHUM, the name used by some writers for 

 that portion of the genus Aspidium which has 

 a round Indusium. 



PROCUMBENT, lying down along the ground; not 

 springing upwards. 



PUBESCENCE, down, or woolly hair. 



PUBESCENT, clothed with soft wool, down, or hair. 



QUADRATE, squared. 



BACEME, a bunch of irregular flowerets. 



EACHIS, the main stem from the branches upwards ; 

 sometimes used for the whole stem ; secondary 

 or partial, the same correspondency on the 

 branches. 



