GLOSSARY. 



leaf-stalk or the stalk of a leaflet ; partial peduncle, a branch of a ped- 

 uncle : partial umbel, an uinbellet. 



Patent: spreading; open. Patulous: moderately spreading. 



Pauci; in composition : few ; a.s paucijlorous, few-lluwered, &c. 



Pear-shaped; solid obovate, the shape of a pear. 



Pectinate: pinnatifid or pinnately divided into narrow and dose divisions, 

 like the teeth of a comb. 



Pedate : like a bird's foot ; palmate or palmately cleft, with the side divis- 

 ions again cleft, as in Viola pedata, &c. 



Pedatelij cleft, lobcd, &c. : cut in a pedate way. 



Pedicel: the stalk of each particular flower of a cluster. 



P^JiceJhile, Pedicelled : f urnislied with a pedicel. 



Peduncle : a flower-stalk, whether of a single flower or of a flower-cluster. 



Peduncled, Pedunculate : furnished with a peduncle. 



Peltate: shield-shaped: said of a leaf, whatever its shape, when the petiole 

 is attached to the lower side, soniewiiere within the margin. 



Pendent : hanging. Pendulous .* somewhat hanging or drooping. 



Penfcillate : tipped with a tuft of fine hairs, like a painter's pencil ; as the 

 stigmas of some Grasses. 



Pepo : a fruit like the Melon and Cucumber. 



Perennial : lasting from year to year. 



Perfect (flower) : having both stamens and pistils. 



Perfdliate : passing through the leaf, in appearance. 



P€rforate : pierced with holes, or with transparent dots resembling holes, as 

 an Orange-leaf. 



Perianth: the leaves of the flower generally, especially when we cannol 

 readily distinguish them into calyx and corolla. 



Pericarp : the ripened ovary ; the walls of the fruit. 



Perigyniuni : bodies around the pistil ; applied to the closed cup or bottle- 

 shaped body which encloses the ovary of Sedges, and to the bristles, 

 little scales, &c. of the flowers of some other Cyperacea;. 



PerigipioHS : the petals and stamens borne on the calyx. 



Persistent : remaining beyond the period when such parts commonly fall, as 

 the leaves of evergreens, and the calyx, &c of such flowers as remain 

 during the growth of the fruit. 



Personate: masked; a bilabiate corolla with a projection, or jKilate in the 

 throat, as of the Snapdragon. 



Petal : a leaf of the corolla. 



Petaloid : petal-like ; resembling or colored like petals. 



Pe'tiole: a footstalk ot a leaf ; a leaf-stalk. 



Petioled, Petlulate : furnished with a petiole. 



Petidhdate: said of a leaflet when raised on its own partial leaf-stalk. 



Phandgamous, or Phanerdgainous : plants bearing flowers and producing 

 seeds j same s Flowering Plants. 



Piliferons : bearing a slende'r bristle or hair (pilnni), or beset with hairs. 



Pilose: hairy; clothed with soft slender hairs. 



Pinna : a primary branch of the petiole of a bipinnate or tripinnate leaf. 



Pinnule: a secondary branch of the petiole of a bipinnate or tripinnate 

 leaf. 



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