P A 



the fuperficies of a leaf, fuperior and inferior^ | 



fupinum, vel pronnm. ■_ 



PALEA, claafr ; a tliin membrane, fpring- j: 



ing from a Receptaculum Cciumune^ which fepa- ; 

 rales the Flofculi from each other. 



PALEACEUS Pappus [palea, fhort ftraw, 

 or chaff J chaffy, as in the Bidsns, Siiphium, To- 

 gctes, Coreopfis, &c. 



Paleaceus Flos, Ray. Mafculus of Linnaeus. 



Paleacea Gluma, as in the Schaenus, CyperuSy 

 Sdrpus, Eriophorum. 



Palcaceum Receptaculum, as in the DtpJacuSf | 

 & Scabiafa, 



PALMtE [a nc(,>.ii.(t.fi, the palm of the hand] 

 palms ; one of the feven families, or tribes of 

 the vegetable kingdom, according to Linnseus, 

 by whom they are thus charafterized, caudex 

 fimplex, apice frondofus, fruSiificationes in fpad'ice 

 cum fpatha. We find them in the appendix to 

 his Syjlema Natura:, confifting of nine genera^ 

 which are divided into fiabellifolia, pennatifolics, 

 and h'lpennatifolics. 



PALM ARTS Caulis [a Palmusl. Sec Palmus. 



PALMATA Radix [a Palma, a hand] a root 



which 



