Glossary 



O'VATE (ovatus, egg-shaped), egg-shaped; having a figure the shape of a longitudi- 

 nal section of an egg. 

 O'VOID (ovum, egg, -f Gr. form), egg-shaped; used to describe solids. 



PALES'CENT, inclining to paleness ; becoming pallid. 



PAI/LID, pale, undecided color. 



PAI/UDINE, PALU'DINOUS, PAI/UDOSE, PALUS'TRINE (palus (palttd-}, a swamp), grow- 

 ing in marshes or swamps. 



PAPILIONACEOUS (papilio(n-), butterfly), variegated; mottled; marked with differ- 

 ent colors ; as the lamellae of some species of Panaeolus mottled with black spores. 



PAPII/LA (pi. PAPII/L^E) (papilla, a nipple, a teat, also a bud, pimple, dim. of papula, 

 a pustule), a small nipple-shaped elevation. 



PAPILLATE (papillatus, ^papilla, a nipple), furnished with one or more nipple-like 

 elevations. 



PAPII/LIFORM, PAPIL'L^EFORM, shaped like a papilla. 



PAPYRACEOUS (papyraceus, <^papyrtis, paper), parchment; resembling the material 

 covering a hornet's nest ; pergamentous. 



PARAPH'YSIS (pi. PARAPH'YSES) (Gr. an off-shoot), slender, thread-like bodies grow- 

 ing with the asci; sterile cells usually club-shaped found with the reproductive 

 cells of some plants. 



PAR'ASITE (Gr. one who eats at another's table, a guest), a plant growing on or in 

 another living body from which it derives all or part of its nourishment. 



PARASITIC, growing on and deriving support from another plant. 



PARENCHYMA (Gr. the peculiar tissue of the lungs, liver, kidney and spleen), the 

 fundamental cellular tissue of plants composed of thin walled, approximately 

 isodiametric cells ; absent in fungi. See PSEUDOPARENCHYMA and PROSENCHYMA. 



PARENCHYM'ATOUS, pertaining to, containing, consisting of or resembling paren- 

 chyma. 



PA'RIES (pi. PARITIES), wall of a cavity or capsule. 



PARIETAL (parietalis, belonging to walls, <^paries (pariet-), a wall), pertaining to or 

 arising from a wall. 



PARTIAL (partialis, divisible, solitary, <pars, a part), secondary; of a veil clothing 

 the stem and reaching to the edge of the pileus, but not extending beyond it; 

 marginal. 



PAT'ELLATE (patella, a small pan or dish, a plate), shaped like a dish. 



PATELI/IFORM (patella, a pan, dish; forma, form), having the shape of a patella or 

 knee pan. 



PATENT (patents, ppr. patere, lie open), spreading, diverging widely. 



PEA GREEN, a pale, dull green color like the color of green pea pods. 



PEARL BLUE, a very pale, purplish-blue color. 



PEARL GRAY (margaritaceus), a very pale, delicate, blue-gray color. 



PECTINATE (pectinatus, comb-like, pp. pectinare, <^pecten, a comb), with narrow 

 teeth, arranged as in a comb. 



PEDICEL (pediculus, a little foot), foot stalk; any short, very small, stem-like stalk. 



PEDICELLATE (pedicellus, dim. of pediculus, a little foot), having a pedicel or little 

 foot stalk. 



PELLICLE (pellicula, a small skin, dim. of pellis, skin), a little or thin skin, a cuticle ; 

 same as cortical layer and cuticle. 



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