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Peduncle: a flower-stnlk, whether of a sinf,'Io flower or of a flower-cluster; p. 78. 



Pc'iluiided, Pedtlnntltite. : furnished with u peduncle. 



Ftltute: shield-shai)ed : siiid of a leaf, whatever its shape, when the petiole '\% 



attached to tlic lower side, somewhere within the mari^in ; p. 59, fi;,'. 102, 178. 

 Pendent: lianfrinf;. Poudnlous : somewhat han^in;: or droopin<j. 

 Pendilhtti' : tipped with a tuft of line hairs, like a painter's pencil ; as the sti<^- 



mas of some Grasses. 

 Pettta- (in words of Grcek composition) : five ; as 

 Pentdijipious : with five pistils or styles ; p. UG. 

 Pentdimrous : with its parts in fives, or on the plan of five. 

 Pentdndioas : having five stamens ; p. 112. Pentdstichous : in five ranks. 

 Pepo: a fruit like the Melon and Cueumher; p. 128. 

 Perennial : lasting from year to year ; p. 21. 

 Perfict (flower) : having hoth stamens and pistils ; p. 89. 

 Perfdiidle: passing through the leaf, in appearance ; p. G7, fig. 131, 132. 

 Pe'ifurate: pierced with holes, or with transparent dots resembling hgles, as an 



Orange-leaf. 

 P<frktnlh : the leaves of the flower generally, es)iccially when we cannot readily 



distinguish them into calyx and corolla; p. S.'j. 

 Pericarp : the ripened ovary ; the walls of the fruit , p. 127. 

 Pcricdrpic : helonging to the pericarp, 



Periclucth: the cluster of peculiar leaves at the base of the fruit-stalk of Jlosses. 

 PcrichceAial : helonging to the pcrichrcth. 

 Perifjdnitim, P<ri;/oiie : same a^ perianth. 

 Periijijidnm : bodies around the pistil ; applied to the closed cup or bottle-shapod 



body which encloses the ovary of Sedges, and to the bristles, little scales, 



&e. of the flowers of some other Cyperacea;. 

 Pert'r/i/nous : the petals and stamens borne on the calyx ; p. 104, 111. 

 Peripheric: around the outside, or peri])hery, of any organ. 

 Pe'risperm: a name for the albumen of a seed (p. l.'^fi). 

 Peristome: the fringe of teeth, &c. around the orifice of tlic capsule of Mosses. 



(Manual, p. 607 ) 

 Persistent : remaining beyond the period when such parts commonly fall, as the 



leaves of evergreens, and the calyx, &e. of such flowds as remain during 



the growth of the fruit. 

 Personate: maskcil ; a bilabiate corolla with a ])rojection, or ^jr'/i^/c ii' the tI:roat, 



as of the Snapdragon ; p. lOG, fig. 210, 21 1. 

 Petal: a leaf of the corolla; p. 85. 

 Pi'tidoid : petal-like ; resembling or colored like petals. 

 Peliole: a footstalk of a leaf; a Icaf-sfalk, p. 54. 

 Pctioled, Petiolate: furnished with a ])etiole. 



Petidlidate : said of a leaflet when nii.sed on its own partial leafstalk. 

 Pha-no'/anioiif^, or Phancr&iamous : plants hearing flowers and producing seeds: 



same as Flowering Plants; p. 177, 182. 

 Phi/Uodium (plural phijUodia) : a leaf where the blade is a dilated jietiole, as in 



New Holland Acacia.s ; p. C9. 

 Plii/ilotd.ris, or Phi/l/ola.ri/ : the arrangement of leaves on the stem ; p. 71. 

 PhysioiiMjical Botani/, Phi/aiolofji/, j). 3. 

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