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PALMATED, cut into oblong segments, resembling a hand. 

 PANICLE, a loose, irregular bunch of flowers with subdivided 



branches. 

 PANDURIFORM, fiddle-shaped, oblong at the extremities, and 



small in the middle, 

 PAPPUS, the down of seeds, as in the Dandelion and Thistle, a 



feathery appendage. 

 PARTITION, the membrane which divides pericarps into cells, 



called the desseximent. 

 PARTED, deeply divided; more than cleft. 

 PECTINATE, resembling the teeth of a comb, between fimbriated 



and pinnatifid. 



PEDICLE, the footstalk which supports a single Sower. 

 PEDUNCLE, the common flower stalk, developed in the axil of a 



non- radical leaf. 



PENDENT, hanging down, pendnlous. 

 PERENNIAL, lasting many years without perishing. 

 PERICARP, the vessel which contains the seed. 

 PERSISTENT, not falling off, permanent. 

 PETALS, the division of the corolla. 

 PETIOLE, the footstalk of the leaf. " 

 PINNATE, a leaf is pinnate when the leaflets are arranged in two 



rows on the side of a common petiole, as in the Rose. 

 PINNATIFID, cut in a pinnate manner; a simple leaf deeply 



parted. 

 PISTIL, the central organ of most flowers, consisting of germ, 



style, and stigma. 



PISTILLATE, having pistils but no stamens. 

 PITH, the spongy substance in the centre of the stem and roots. 

 POD, dry seed-vessel, not pulpy, commonly applied to legumes and 



siliques. 



POLYANDROUS, having many stamens inserted upon the recep- 

 tacle. 

 POLYGAMOUS, having some flowers perfect, and others with 



stamens only, or pistils only. 



POLYMORPHOUS, changing, assuming many forms. 

 POLYPETALOUS, having many petals. 



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