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gard to the place of its infertlon, radlcaUs, cau- 

 linuSy axillaris. Sec. ; in refpeflto difpofitlon, al- 

 ternus, fparfus, oppofitus, &c. ; as to number, ge- 

 minatiis, umbellula. Sec ; direftion, adprejfusj ere- 

 £ius, &c.; unijiorus, bifiorus, &c. according to 

 the number of frudlliications upon each Psdun- 

 cuius ; as to ftru£lure, teres, triqueter, filiformis^ 

 articulatus, Sec. 



PELTATUM Folium [Pelta, a target] the 

 Petiolus being inferted into the dilk of the leaf, 

 and not into its bafe or margin, as in the Nym- 

 phisa, Hernandieiy Colocafta-, Hydrocotyle vulgaris, 



PENDULA Radix [zpendeo., to hang] a pen- 

 dulous root ; a fpecies of the Tuberofa, ia 

 which, when the root is lifted up, the knobs 

 hang down, as in the Filipendula, and Elaagnus. 



Pendulus Pedunculus, hanging down, oppofed 

 to ereciuSy JlriBus. 



Pendula Corolla-^ as in the Lathma fquammarla. 



PENICILLIFORMIA Stigmata [a penlciUm, 

 a pencil^ in fhape refembling a painter's pencil, 

 as in the Milium. 



PENTAGON US Caulis. See Trigonus. 

 Penfagonus Calyx, as in the Chenopodium. 



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