P R 



POMUM, an apple, pear, i^c. ; according 

 to Linnaeus, a clofe pulpy Pericarpiutn, cover- 

 ed by a continued thin membrane without 

 valves, and containing a Capfula. 



PORT [■xii?/->, iranfadigo^ to pierce through], 

 Linnaeus chufes to clafs thefe Fori, poi'es, ob- 

 fervable on the furface of fome plants, among 

 the fecretory, rather excretory, glandula. We 

 have examples of thefe pores in the Tamarix, 

 Sikne, Sic. 



POSTICUS Aiigulus, [a poft, ut amicus ab 

 cnte'\ a pofterior angle, fuch as arc formed by 

 the excavation in the bafts of a Folium cordatum, 

 lunatum, or fag'ittatum, 



PR^MORSA Radix, [l pramordeo, to bite] 

 a root which does not run tapering to its extre- 

 mity, but appears truncated, or bitten off, as in 

 Scahiofa, Plantago, & Valeriana. 



Pra?norfum folium, a leaf whofe apex is very 

 obtufe, and unequally notched or bitten, quod 

 obttfijjimum terminatur incijuris inaqualibus. 



PRECIS [prccius, earlyj an order of 

 plants in the Fragmenta methcdi naturalis of Lin- 

 naeus, containing thefe genera, viz. Primula, 



Audroface, 



