prtately 



peltate 



ped'ately cleft = PEDATIFID ; ~ 

 reined, = PEDATINERVED ; pedat'- 

 Ifid, pedatif'idus(flndo,fidi, cleft), 

 divided in a pedate manner nearly 

 to the base ; pedatiformls (forma, 

 shape) = PEDATIFID ; pedatilo'bus, 

 pedatiloba'tus, pedatilo'bed (XojSds, 

 earlap), palmate, with supplemen- 

 tary lobes at the base ; peda'ti- 

 nerved, peda'tinervia (nermis, a 

 nerve), when the midrib stops 

 short, and two strong lateral nerves 

 proceed from its base, giving rise 

 to others which extend only to the 

 apex ; pedatipar'tite, pedatiparti'- 

 tus (partitus, divided), with pedate 

 venation, and the lobes nearly free ; 

 pedat'isect, pedatisec'tus (sectus, 

 cut), pedately veined, the divi- 

 sions nearly reaching the midrib. 



Ped'estal (pes, pedis, a foot, stela, a 

 column), the persistent base of a 

 leaf which disarticulates from it, 

 cf. PULVINUS. 



Pedicel, Pedicel'lus (pediculus, a small 

 foot), (1) an ultimate flower-stalk, 

 the support of a single flower ; (2) 

 in Hydropterideae the sporophore ; 

 pedicel'late, pedicella'tus, pedicula'- 

 tus J, borne on a pedicel ; Pedicle 

 = PEDICEL; Pedicel'lulus (dim. of 

 jpedicdlus), a filiform support to 

 the ovary in certain Compositae ; 

 Pedic'ulus, (1) = PEDICEL; (2) the 

 stalk of the apple and other fruits ; 

 (3) the filament of an anther, as ~ 

 Anthe'rae. 



pedif erus (pes, pedis, a foot, fero, I 

 bear), furnished with a stalk or 

 support (Henslow) ; Pedilis, the 

 contracted upper portions of the 

 calyx tube in such florets of 

 Compositae as have a stipitate 

 pappus ; pedila'tus, furnished with 

 a PEDILIS ; Pedun'cle, Pedunc'ulus, 

 the general term for the stalk of a 

 flower, it may also bear a cluster of 

 single flowers ; peduncular'is, re- 

 lating to a peduncle or a modifica- 

 tion, as peduncular' es Cir'rhi, ten- 

 drils proceeding from a peduncle ; 

 pedunc'ulate, peduncula'tus, pedun- 

 culo'sus, furnished with a footstalk ; 



pedunculea'nus, with a modified 

 state of the peduncle (Henslow). 



Peel, the rind or skin of fruit ; Grew 

 spells it "Pill." 



Peg, an embryonic organ at the lower 

 end of the hypocotyl of seedlings 

 of Cucumis, Gfnetum, etc., lasting 

 till the cotyledons are withdrawn 

 from the testa. 



pela'gian= pelagic (ire\ayos, the sea), 

 inhabiting the open ocean, as dis- 

 tinct from the shores. 



pellos (ireXtos), black, livid. 



Pellicle, PeUic'ula (Lat., a small 

 skin), a delicate superficial mem- 

 brane, epidermis ; pellicular'is, 

 having the character of a pellicle ; 

 pelli'tus (Lat. , covered with skin), 

 " skinned, deprived of skin or ap- 

 parently so " (Lindley). 



pellu'cid, pellu'cidus (Lat., trans- 

 parent), wholly or partially trans- 

 parent. 



pelog'enous (TrTjXos, clay, yivos, off- 

 spring), applied by Thurmann to 

 those rocks which yield a clayey 

 detritus, and the plants which 

 thrive thereon ; pelophllous (0iXew, 

 I love), Warming's variation of the 

 same ; pelopsam'mic (^d/i/xos, sand), 

 yielding clay and sand ; pelopsam- 

 mog'enous, giving rise to clayey 

 sand (Thurmann). 



Pelorla (TreXwpios, monstrous), an ir- 

 regular flower become regular by an 

 exceptional development of comple- 

 mentary irregularities ; irregular 

 ~ by the symmetric multiplication 

 of the irregular portions ; regular 

 ~ by the suppresssion of the ir- 

 regular parts; Pelorisa'tion, the 

 process of conversion of a flower 

 to a regular form, from its normal 

 irregular form. 



Pel'ta (Lat., a target), (1) the round 

 shield-like apothecium of Peltidea, 

 etc. ; (2) a bract attached by its 

 middle, as in Peppers ; pel'tafld 

 (findo, fidi, to cleave), when a 

 peltate leaf is cut into segments ; 

 pel'tate, pelta'tus, target-shaped, as 

 a leaf attached by its lower surface 

 to a stalk, instead of by its margin ; 



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