442 GLOSSARY. 



Pedicel. The ultimate branch of a peduncle. A little stalk. 

 Peduncle. A stem bearing flowers or fruit, which is the branch 



of another stem. 

 Pellicle. A very thin stratum or coat. 

 Peltate. Having the stalk attached to some part of the surface 



or disc, and not to the margin. 

 Pendulous. Hanging down. 



Pencilled. Ending like a painter's pencil or brush. 

 Pentandrous. Having five stamens. 

 Pepo. A fruit like the Melon, one celled, many seeded, inferior, 



indehiscent, fleshy, with the seeds attached to pulpy recep- 

 tacles outwardly. 

 Perennial. Lasting more than two years. 

 Perfect jloiccr. One which possesses stamens and pistils, and 



produces fruit. 

 Perfoliate. Surrounding the stem on all sides and perforated by 



it. It differs from connate, in not consisting of two leaves. 

 Perianth. A sort of calyx Avhich is immediately contiguous to 



the other parts of fructification. 

 Pericarp. A seed vessel, or whatever contains the seed. 

 Periclinium. The calyx of a compound flower. 

 Perigynous. Growing from the calyx, surrounding the pistil. 

 Permanent. See Persistent. 



Persistent. Not falling off. Those parts of a flower are persis- 

 tent which remain till the fruit is ripe. 

 Personate, Masked, Having the mouth of the corolla closed 



by a prominent palate. 

 Petal. The leaf of a corolla, usually colored. 

 Petaloid. Resembling petals. 

 Petiole. The stalk which supports a leaf. 

 Phocnogamous. Not Cryptogamous. Applied to all plants which 



have visible stamens and pistils. 

 Phyllodium. A spurious leaf, formed by the spreading of the 



petiole. 

 Pilose. Hairy. With a stiff pubescence. 

 Pinna. The leafets or divisions of a pinnate leaf. 

 Pinnate. A leaf is pinnate when the leafets are arranged in two 



rows on the sides of a common petiole ; as in Rhus vernix. 



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