GLOSSARY. 



leaf-stalk or the stalk of a leaflet : partial peduncle, a branch of a ped- 

 uncle : partial umbel, an umbellet. 



Patent : spreading ; open. Patulous : moderately spreading. 



Panel-, in composition: few; as pauciflorous, few-floweied, &c. 



Pear-shaped : solid obovate, the sliape of a pear. 



Pectinate: pinnatifid or pinnately divided into narrow and close divisions, 

 like the teeth of a comb. 



Pedate : like a bird's foot ; palmate or palmately cleft, with the side divis- 

 ions again cleft, as in Viola pedata, &c. 



Pedately cleft, lobcd, &c. : cut in a pedate way. 



Pedicel: the stalk of each particular flower of a cluster. 



Police/late, Pe'dicelled : furnished with a pedicel. 



Peduncle : a flower-stalk, whether of a single flower or of a flower-cluster. 



Peduncled, Pedunculate : furnished with a peduncle. 



Peltate : shield-shaped : said of a leaf, whatever its sliape, when the petiole 

 is attached to the lower side, somewhere within the margin. 



Pendent: hanging. Pendulous: somewhat hanging or drooping. 



Penicillate : tipped with a tuft of fine hairs, like a painter's pencil ; as the 

 stigmas of some Grasses. 



Pepo : a fruit like the Melon and Cucumber. 



Perennial : lasting from year to year. 



Perfect (flower) : having both stamens and pistils. 



Perforate : passing through the leaf, in appearance. 



Perforate : pierced with holes, or with transparent dots resembling holes, as 

 an Orange-leaf. 



Perianth: the leaves of the flower generally, especially when we cannot 

 readily distinguish them into calyx and corolla. 



Pericarp : the ripened ovary ; the walls of the fruit. 



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

 shaped body which encloses the ovary of Sedges, and to the bristles, 

 little scales, &c. of the flowers of some other Oyperaceae. 



Perlgi/nous : the petals and stamens borne on the calyx. 



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

 the leaves of evergreens, and the calyx, &c. of such flowers as remain 

 during the growth of the fruit. 



Personate : masked ; a bilabiate corolla with a projection, or palate in the 

 throat, as of the Snapdragon. 



Petal : a leaf of the corolla. 



Peta/oid : petal-like; resembling or colored like petals. 



Petiole : a footstalk of a leaf ; a leaf-stalk. 



Petioled, Petiofate : furnished with a petiole. 



Petiolnlate : said of a leaflet when raised on its own partial leaf-stalk. 



Phcendjamous, or Phanerdyamo'ts : plants bearing flowers and producing 

 seeds ; same s Flowering Plants. 



Piliferons : bearing a slender bristle or hair (pilum), or beset with hairs. 



Pilose: hairy; clothed with soft slender hairs. 



Pinna : a primary branch of the petiole of a bipinnate or tripinnato leaf. 



Pinnule: a secondary branch of the petiole of a bipinnate or tripinnate 

 leaf. 



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