GLOSSARY. 
Persistent; not falling off; remaining be 
a the time when similar ar organs usu- 
Pooraahyrka corolla, Masked; having the 
throat closed by a promine ent palate, as in | Pod. 
ria. 
Petal. The (usually) delicate colored flow- | 
—_ pie | 
d pe 
wer of more than one petal 
petals are | 
er leaf. In a flower of o are 
ed petals), the corolla an 
Same a flow 
the ale is the whole and the 
the parts. 
etaloid; peta ; delicate and colored, 
or aye rey a petal. 
Péetiolur; seated on, or belonging to, the 
427 
Plumose; feather-like. A pappus is plu- 
mose, nose when each hair has other hairs 
d on opposite sides of it,—as in 
Cirsium. 
dry seed-vessel, narrow 
or less slongeiod; and jusually of 2 2 ome 
Thete igs onde applied indiscriminately 
to both Legumes and Stliques. 
polaeoun or Pollinia,. The rane 
ss of sole in the Asclepias and 
Or 
Poly, in Sascnions many. 
Polya eaiphens rheving the filaments unit- 
aes en 
petio * oa in 8 or m 
Péetiolute; having, or being supported on, a| Polydandr. oe than ten hypo- 
petiole ; ay —- gynous stamens. 
Péiole, stem or foot-stalk of a leaf. | Polycotylédonows; haying many seed- 
Petiolulate; ‘hating g a partial or subdivided | _ leaves, 
petiole. Polygamo-dixcious, or dioicous ; 
Petiolute, A little or partial petiole; the} perfect and imperfect i 
foot stalk of a > eaflet, sterile) flowers on distinct pleni 
Phenigamous, or phane ragamons; hav- | Polygamous; having some tiowers 
ing visible genuine stamens or pistils;} and others either s , or 
bearing true a a neuter. 
Phyllidium. ihe mitation, analogue, or | Polygynous; teri the pistils are nume- 
su — na a Toat-asualy 7 ita ted | rous or indefin 
foliaeeo abortive com- | Polymorphous, le; assuming, or apt 
pound lea to assume, many different pate we 
rapeae ae | 
with, distinct ct strats hairs. 
Pinna, The paired or opposite leaflets of 
® pinnate leaf —or more t Ss 
inate ron means distinet articulated | Pome. A.  & t formed of 
ee in pairs, on opposite sides of a| several aginous or y carpels, 
simple petiole, imbedded in pulp and invested by the 
Pinnatifi leaf, or frond. Cleft in a pin | _ tube of the adherent calyx. 
manner, but the segments united or | Pores; small holes, or tubular fia aoe 
cont i ess at pilin full of holes, cells, or 
innitifidly; in a pinnatifid manner. openings. 
mnatasect; Pstd 3 Gienecind or diyid-| Pramorse; end-bitten; ending blunt, as if 
ed,—but the segmen t articulated pitt n off. ; 
with the petiole, vacookous flowers; appearing before the 
uunules, The leaflets or subdivisions of 
a bi- tri- or ay a lens or frond. 
en 
onsisting us wore oka a style, and 
sometimes the style is wanting, 
Pas “other words, the stigma is ses- 
;.the line, oe sige pi ithe 
eavity of the o high bears 4 
ovules. 
Placintal: per 
PMokie A sharp process arising from the 
nok aa y~and not originating in the 
Primary; first in a series in onder of time, a 
vb sa sane ae 
or ini 
Primbrdiake frst’ in 
ed to the 
