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Jndroface, D'lapenfta, Cortiifa, Dodecatheon^ 

 Soldanella^ Cyclamer}. 



PRISMATICUS Calyx \_Prlfma, a prifm] 

 equal in diameter from top to bottom, but dif- 

 ferent from Cyl'indraceus, in its circumference 

 being angular, as in the Pulmonaria. 



Prifmai'icum Fericarpium, cum lineare poly' 

 edrum jit lateribus planis. 



PROCUMBENS CauHs : lying along the 

 ground, horizontaliter fupra terrain ; different 

 in fignification from repens, in not fbooting 

 out radiadce as it runs along : exemplified in 

 the Convolvulus foldanella. Synonym, with pro- 

 Jhatus. 



PROLIFER Flos [from Proles, offspring]. 

 Flowers are called proliferous where one grows 

 out of the other, which feldom happens ex- 

 cept in jlores pleni. Prolification is either from 

 the centre or from the fide : the firfi; happens 

 in fimple flowers, when the Pijlillum fhoots in- 

 to another flower raifed on a fingle Pedunculm ; 

 the fecond, in aggregate flowers, properly fo 

 called, when, from one common calyx, many 

 pedunculate flowers are produced. When um- 

 bellate flowers become proliferous, it is by one 

 Umbellula growing out of another. 



Prolifer 



