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fi hafts folit undique cingat tranfverfm cautem, 

 when the bafis of the leaf entirely furrounds the 

 ftem tranfverfely ; differing from Amplexicaule 

 in the ftem appearing nearer the centre of the 

 leaf, as in the Bupkurum rotundt folium, Uvula- 

 ria ,perfoL 



PERFORATA Cotyhdones \_perforor, to be 

 pierced through] perforated. A fpecies of 

 the Monocotyledones, exemplified in Gra7mna. 



Perforata, an order of plants in the Frogmen- 

 U mcthodi mturalis of Linnaeus, containing the 

 following genera, viz. Hypericum-^ Afcyrum, C'l- 

 JiuSf Telephiui7i. 



PERIANTHIUM [ex «?', drcum, about, 

 & uvi(^, fios, a flower] the Calyx fo called 

 when contiguous to the fruftification. When 

 it includes the Stamina and Germen, it is the Pe- 

 rianthium of the fructification ; when the Sta- 

 mina, without the Germen, are included, the 

 Perianthium of the flower ; the Perlanthiwn of 

 the fruit, when it contains the Germen^ and 

 pot the Stamina. 



PERICARPIUM [from ^s?^, circum, & ««;- 

 w»5, femen, feed] the Germen fo called in its ftate 

 of maturity. It is that Vifcus, as Linnaeus 

 terms it, which contains the feed of the plant, 



and, 



