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PEDATUM Folium [pes, a foot] or Ramo- 

 fum^ branching ; cum petiolus hifidus latere tan- 

 turn Interior e adneStit foliala : a fpecies of folium 

 compofttum, in which a bifid petiolus connefts fo- 

 liola on its interior fide only, fomewhat refem- 

 bling a bird's foot, as in the Pajftjiora., Arum, 

 Hellehorus fostidus. 



PEDICELLUS [a pediculus, a little foot] eji 

 Pedunculus partialis^ i, e. the httle foot-ftalk 

 ivhich fupports each feparate flower when there 

 are more than one fru£tification on one Pedun- 

 culus. 



PEDICULUS [dim. a Pes, a foot] The 

 foot-ftalk of a flower, or leaf, according to 

 former botanifls ; the Pedunculus of Linnsus. 



PEDUNCULARIS Cirrus ^pedunculus'] a ten- 

 dril pi-oceediog from the footrftalk of a flower. 



PEDUNCULATI Flores [pedunculus'] grow- 

 ing upon foot-ftalks, oppofed to Sejftles. 



PEDUNCULUS [from pedo, one who is 

 fplay -footed] the foot-ftalk of a flower, diftin- 

 guiflied from that of a leaf ; tr uncus partialis^ 

 elevans fruSiificationem, ncc folia. A Pedunculus 

 may be either pedicellus, or communis j with re- 

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