84 PLANT NAMES 



eyes, spotted ; officinalis, used in a workshop, hence 

 medicinal, or useful for manufacture ; olens, strong- 

 smelling; onustus, laden; oppositifolius, having 

 opposite leaves; ornatus, adorned; oxycanthus, with 

 sharp flowers. 



Pallidus, pale; paluster, marshy; paniculatus, 

 tufted; pannosus, ragged, shrivelled; papillosus, 

 bearing small nipples ; parvus, small ; patens, patulus, 

 open, patent; paucus, few; pectoralis, belonging to 

 the breast; pedatus, foot-like; pedunculatus, stalked; 

 peltatus, armed with a shield, shield-like; pennatus, 

 winged; peregrinus, foreign, strange; petiolaris, 

 having leaf stalks; petrceus, rocky; pileatus, capped; 

 pilosus, hairy; plenus, full; plicatus, folded; plu- 

 mosus, feathered; prcecox, premature, precocious, 

 early; prcestans, outstanding; pratensis, growing in a 

 meadow ; princeps, chief ; procerus, tall ; procumbens, 

 lying down; pubens, mature, luxuriant; pudicus, 

 modest; pulcher, pulchella, beautiful; pullus, dark; 

 pulverulentus, dusty; pumilus, dwarf; pungens, 

 pricking, stinging ; purpureus, purple ; pusillus, very 

 small; pygmcBus, dwarf. 



Quinatus, fivefold. 



Racemosus, full of clusters; radicans, rooting; 

 ramosus, branched; rectus, straight or upright; 

 reflexus, bent back; repens, sudden, unexpected; 

 reptans, creeping ; reticulatus, netted ; retroflexus, bent 

 back ; retusus, thrust back ; ringens, gaping ; riparius, 

 growing on river banks; ruber, red; rufus, ruddy; 



