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Polyphjllous : mnny-lcftvcd ; formed of several distinct pieces, as the calyx of 



Seduin, n-;. 108, Flax, fi;;. 174, &e. 

 Poli/xejHilous : same as tlie last wiieii applied to the calyx ; p. 103. 

 Pol lispermous : many-scedt il. 



Pome: the apple, ))ear, and similar lleshy fruits ; p. 128. 

 Porous: full of holes or pores. 



Pouch : the siliele or short ])od, as of Shepherd's Purse ; p. 133. 

 Pnrjlordtton : same as a stiiation ; p. 108. 

 Pnv foliation: s&mo an, vernation ; p. 75. 

 Pnvimirse: endinjj abruptly, as if bitten off. 



Prickles : sharp elevations of the bark, coming off with it, as of the Rose ; p. 39. 

 PricUl/ : bearing prickles, or sharp projections like them. 

 Primine: the outer coat of the covering of the ovule ; p. 124. 

 Priiiidrdial : earliest formed ; primordial leaves arc tiic first after the cotyledons. 

 Prismatic : prism-shajied ; having tiirce or more angles bounding flat or hollowed 



sides. 

 Process : any projection from the surface or edge of a body. 

 Procumbent : trailing on the ground ; p. 37. 

 Produced : extended or projecting, as tiie upper sepal of a Larkspur is produced 



above into a spur ; p. 91, fig. 183. 

 PnUfi-rous (literally, bearing offspring) • where a new branch rises from an 



older one, or one head or cluster of flowers out of another, as in Filago 



Germanica, &c. 

 Prostrate : lying flat on the ground. 



Prdleiiie: a vegetable product containing nitrogen ; p. 165. 

 Protoplasm : the soft nitrogenous lining or contents of cells , p. 165. 

 Pruinose, Pruinate: frosted ; covered with a powder iike hoar-frost. 

 Puhe'rulent : covered with fine and short, almost imperceptible down. 

 Pube'scent: hairy or downy, especially with fine and soft hairs ov pubescence. 

 Pulve'rulent , or Pulveraccous : dusted ; covered with line powder, or what looks 



like such. 

 Piilcinate : cushioned, or shaped like a cushion. 

 Punctate : dotted, eitiier with minute holes or what look as such (as tiic leaves of 



St. John's-wort and the Orange), or with minute projecting dots. 

 Pungent : very hard, and sharp-pointed ; j)rickly-pointed. 

 Putumen: the stone of a drupe, or the shell of a nut ; p. 128. 

 Pyramidal : shaped like a pyramid. 



Pi/rene, Pip-^na: a seed-like nutlet or stone of a small drupe. 

 Pi/xis, Pyxulium : a jjod opening round horizontally by a lid ; p. 133, fig. 293, 311. ' 



Quadri; in words of Latin origin •. four ; as 



Quadrdnrjular : four-angled Qmdrifoliate : four-leaved. 



Qnddrijid: four-deft; p 62. 



Quate'rnate in fours. Quinate : in fives. 



Quinctinnial: in a quincunx ; when the parts in a-stivation arc five, two of them 



outside, two inside, and one half out and half in, as showii in the calvx, 



fig. 224. 

 Quintuple : five-fold. 



