P L 



rSifcus feU'i vn-jus Jimrginem ad a.':grihs adfcmdJt ^ 

 ilejcejid'it ; in plain Englifh, pLiiccd like a wo- 

 man's fan, or a candle-lhade, as in the Eryng'nt7n 

 marltinnan. When ufed as a term of foliation, 

 it implies the leaf within the gciivna, being 

 plaited longitudinally, as in the Betula, Fitis, 

 Malva, Urtica, Alcheinilla, Pajfijlom, V'lbttr- 

 r.iim, Src. 



Plicatre Coiylcdones, plaited or folded, a fpe- 

 cies of the Dlcctyledoiu's, exemplified in the Gof- 

 fypium. 



PUcata Corolla^ as in the Convolvulus. 



PLUM/iTA feta {fhana, a fofc feather] 

 That fpecies of pubefcence termed yj/^, is faid 

 to be plumaia^ feathered, when each briftle 

 has lateral hairs growing like the plume on a 

 quill. 



PLUMOSUS Pappm {pbnr.a, a fmall foft 

 feather] compound and wooliy, as in the Cre- 

 pis, Scorzoncra, Tragcpogon, lie, 



PLUMULA, a little feather; the afcending 

 fcaly part of the Coradum of the Semen. 



POLLEN [from n«;.i5, fine meal, or fioAver] 



that dufi: which is contained in the Jnthcra, and 



which, according to Linnseus, is difchargcd 



1 thence. 



