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Pistillum, .the style or female organ of generation, whose of- 

 fice is to receive and secrete the farina fecundans. 



Pixidatum/b/iw//z, a kind of foliage, where one leaf is let into 

 another by a joint, as in Equisetum. 



Placentatio, cotyledones of the seed. 



Plampetalus //o.s, a flower with plain flat petals. 



Plantae, plants, one of the seven families of vegetables, com- 

 prehending all which are not . included in the other si* 

 tribes. 



Planum/b/w/w, plain flat leaves. 



Plenus^/os, a full or double flower. 



Plicatum^/b/w/w, a plaited leaf. 



Plumata seta, a feathered hair or bristle. 



Plumosus pappus, a kind of soft down. 



Plimmla, the ascending scaly part of the corculurn. 



Pollen, meal, the prolific powder contained in the anthera. 



Pollex, a thumb, the length of the first joint of the thumb, 

 or a Parisian inch. 



Polyadelphia, many brotherhoods, the eighteenth class in the 

 sexual system. 



Polyandria, many males, the thirteenth class in the sexual 

 system of Linnaeus. 



Polycotyledones, many cotyledons. 



Poiygamia, many marriages, the twenty-third class in the 

 sexual system. 



Polygynia, many females, an order of some of the classes in 

 the sexual system. 



Polypetala corolla, a flower consisting of many petals. 



Polyphyllum involucrum, an involucrum of many leaves. 



Polypyrenus, with several stones or seeds. 



Polystachius culmus, a stalk of grass having many spikes. 



P^maceae, pomum, an apple, an order of plants in the Frag- 

 menta methodi naturalis of Linnaeus. 



Pomum, an apple. 



Pori, pores. 



Praemorsa radix, a bitten root, when it ends abruptly as in 

 Scabiosa, 



Pi'&morsum folium, the point very blunt, with various ir- 

 regular notches. 



Precise, an order of plants in the Fragmenta methodi naturalis 

 of Linnaeus. 



Prismaticus calyx, a triangular flower-cup. 



Procumbens caidis, lying on the ground. 



Prolifer 



