332 GLOSSARY. 



Prolifer fios, flowers growing through, or out of one ano- 

 ther, either from the centre or side. 



Promiuulum dissepiment urn, to jut out beyond the valves. 



Pronum discumjblii, leaves having their face downwards. 



Propago, a shoot, the seed of mosses. 



Proprium itwotncrum, an involucrum when at the base of aia 

 umbellated flower. 



Pseudo, a bastard. 



Pubes, down or hair, one of the seven kinds of fulcra. 



Pulposum folium, a leaf having a pulpy or fleshy substance. 



Pulveratum/b/mm, a leaf powdered with a kind of dust like 

 meal, as in Primula farinosa. 



IPwict'dtumfo/iwn, a leaf sprinkled with hollow dots or points. 



Putamineae, like a shell, an order of plants in the Fragment* 

 methodi naturalis of Linnaeus. 



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Quadrangulareyb/wtfz, a quadrangular leaf, having four pro- 

 minent angles in the circumscription of its disk. 



QuadriMum folium, a leaf divided into four parts. 



Quadrijugumyb//M/w, a leaf having four pair of folioles. 



Quadrilobum folium, a leaf consisting of four lobes. 



Quadripartitiim/b/*Mw, a leaf consisting of four divisions 

 down to the base. 



Quaternayb/m, when verticillate leaves come by fours, hav- 

 ing four in each whorle. 



Quins, folia, verticillate leaves coming by fives. 



Quinatum folium, when a digitate leaf has five folioles. 



Quinquangulareyb//??z, a leaf having five prominent angles 

 in the circumscription of the disk. 



Quinquejugum/b//>/m, when a pinnated leaf has five pair of 

 folioles. 



Quinquelobtim jfo/zjww, a leaf having five lobes. 



Quinquefidumyb/Mtfz, a leaf consisting of five divisions, with 

 linear sinuses, and straight margins. 



Quinquepartitumyb//ww, consisting of five divisions down to 

 the base. 



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Racemus, a bunch of grapes or currants, or any other bunch 



of berries bearing that resemblance. 

 Rachis, the back bone, a species of receptaculum, as in the 



Panicum. 



Rachis, 



