paleous 



Panicle 



liferous (fero, I bear), bearing 

 paleae ; pa'leous, chaffy. 

 Paleophytol'ogy = PALAEOPHYTOLOGY. 



Palingen'esis (ird\i.i>, again, yfr&ru, 

 a beginning), Haeckel's term for 

 the doctrine of simple descent ; 

 also written Palin'geny. 



Pal'isade Cells, perpendicular elong- 

 ated parenchyma cells on the sur- 

 face of most leaves ; ~ Parenchyma, 

 /* Tis'sue, tissue composed of the 

 said cells. 



pal'lens (Lat., wan), pale in colour; 

 palles'cent, becoming light in tint ; 

 pallid, pal'lidus, somewhat pallid ; 

 pallid'ulus, slightly pallid. 



Pal'lium (Lat. , a covering or garment), 

 a presumed gelatinous envelope of 

 Diatoms. 



Palm (palma, the palm of the hand), 

 three inches, the width of the 

 hand ; ~ veined = PALMATELY 

 VEINED ; palmar'is (Lat.), the 

 breadth of the palm, about three 

 inches ; pal'mate, palma' tus, lobed 

 or divided, so that the sinuses 

 point to the apex of the petiole ; 

 pal'mately, in a palmate manner, as 

 ~ cleft = PALMATIFID ; ~ com'pound, 

 ~ divi'ded, ~ lobed = PALMATILO- 

 BATE ; ~ nerved = PALMATINERVIS ; 

 ^part'ed = PALMATIPABTITE ; <~ 

 veined = PALMATINERVIS ; palma- 

 tiformls (forma, shape), the 

 venation arranged in a palmate 

 manner ; palmatlfid, palmatif'idus 

 (findo, fidi, to cleave), cut in a 

 palmate fashion nearly to the 

 petiole ; palmatilo'bate (lobatus, 

 !obed), palmately lobed ; palmati- 

 ner'vis (nermis, a nerve), palmately 

 nerved ; palmatipartlte (partitus, 

 divided), cut nearly to the base in 

 a palmate manner ; palmat'isect, 

 palmatisect'us (sectus, cut), pal- 

 mately cut. 



Palxnel'la (iraX/ws, palpitation), the 

 zoogloea stage of Schizomycetes, 

 etc., when embedded in a jelly-like 

 mass ; not to be confounded with 

 the algal genus, Palmella, Lyngb. 



Palmel'lin, Phipson's name for the 



colouring matter of Palmella cru- 

 enta, Agh. ; palmel'loid (etSos, re- 

 semblance), characteristic of the 

 genus named. 



palmiferous (palma, a date palm, 

 fero, I bear), producing palms. 



pal'miform (palma, palm of the 

 hand, forma, shape) = PALMATI- 

 FORM ; palminer'ved, palminer'vis 



= PALMATINERVIS. 



palmitic (palma, a palm), relating 

 to palms, as ^ Acid, derived from 

 Pal'mitin, a glyceride, a solid fat 

 occurring in palm oil. 

 Pal'mus (Lat., the palm of the hand), 

 as a measure may denote a SPAN 

 or a PALM, nine inches or three, 

 palu'dal (palus, a marsh), Watson's 

 term for natives of marshes, wet 

 all through the year ; pal'udine, 

 palu'dinous (Crozier) = pal'udose, 

 paludo'sus (Lat., boggy), growing 

 in marshy places, 

 parumbi'nus (Lat., of wood-pigeons), 



lead-coloured. 



palus'ter (Lat., swampy), palus'trine, 

 palus' tr is, inhabitating boggy 

 ground ; the latter Latin form is 

 more usual in botanic usage, 

 pam'piniform (pampinus, a tendril, 

 forma, shape), resembling the ten 

 dril of a vine. 



Pan-apos'pory (ircis, -rravros, all, + 

 APOSPORY), the condition of pro- 

 thalli being developed aposporously 

 over the entire surface of the frond, 

 pan'durate, pandura'tus (pandura, a 

 musical instrument), fiddle-shaped, 

 as the leaf of Rumexpulchtr, Linn. ; 

 pandu'riform (forma, shape), re- 

 sembling the same. 

 Pangen'esis (iras, Tra^ros, all, yfrecris, 

 beginning), a theory that each 

 separate unit of a body throws off 

 minute gemmules during all stages 

 of development, which may develop 

 it once, or remain dormant and be 

 transmitted through the repro- 

 ductive cells to later generations ; 

 Pan'gens, De Vries's term for the 

 active particles assumed in Dar- 

 win's theory of Pangenesis. 

 Panicle, Panic 'ida (Lat., a tuft), 



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