partitus 
pedate 
parti’tus (Lat.) = PARTED. 
Par’tridge-wood, oak-wood destroyed 
by Stereum (Tubeuf). 
parviflor’us (parvus, small, flos, floris, 
a flower), having smaller flowers 
than in its congeners ; parvifo'lius 
( folium, a leaf), with smaller leaves 
than the allied species; par’vus 
(Lat.), small. 
Pas’sage Cells, cells in the exodermis 
or endodermis of roots which 
retain thin unaltered walls, by 
which water can pass. 
Pas‘salus (rdccanos, a peg), a gamo- 
sepalous calyx. 
pas’cual (pascuum, a pasture), H. C. 
Watson’s term for plants which 
grow in pastures and grassy 
commons, amongst less rank herb- 
age than ‘‘pratal” ; pas’cuus (Lat. ), 
relating to pastures. 
Pasteuriza’tion,the preservation of fer- 
menting liquids by heating to about 
140° Fahr., so as to germin- 
ate and then destroy Fungi and 
their spores contained in the fluids 
treated (Crozier). 
Patel’la (Lat., a small dish), an orbi- 
cular sessile apothecium, with a 
marginal rim distinct from the thal- 
lus; patellar’oid (eldos, likeness), 
resembling a patella ; patel/liform, 
patelliform'is( forma,shape), shaped 
like a small dish, circular and 
rimmed ; Patel’lula, a diminutive 
patella; patel’lulate, possessing pa- 
tellulae. 
pa’tent, pat’ens (Lat.), 
patentis’simus (Lat.), 
spread out. 
pat’eriform (patera, a dish or saucer, 
Jorma, shape), saucer-shaped. 
Path-fiinders = Honry-curpss, lines 
of colour leading to nectaries. 
pathogenic, pathog’enous (dOos, 
suffering, disease, yévos, race, off- 
spring), producing disease ; Patho- 
gene’ity, the quality of disease 
giving; Pathol’ogy (Adyos, dis- 
course), the science of diseases ; 
Veg’etable ~, that department of 
botany which treats of plant dis- 
ease. 
spreading ; 
extremely 
pat’ulous, -/us (Lat.), slightly spread- 
in, 
ig. 
pauciflor’ous, -rus (paucus, few, flos, 
floris,a flower), few flowered; pauci- 
fo’lius (folium, a leaf), having few 
leaves; paucijuga’tus (jugum, a 
oke), with only a few pairs of 
eaflets in a pinnate leaf. 
pau'siacus (pausia, a kind of olive), 
olive-green. 
pavoni'nus (Lat., pertaining to a pea- 
cock), peacock-blue, 
pear-formed, ~ shaped, obovoid or 
obconic with a tapering base. 
pearl-grey, “‘ pure grey, a little verg- 
ing to blue ” (Lindley). 
Pépbrine’ (Fr.), a disease of silkworms 
caused by Nosema Bombycis, Naeg., 
a bacterial organism; it is also 
named GATTINE. 
Pec’tase (myxros, coagulated), an 
enzyme which forms vegetable jelly 
from pectic substances occurring in 
the cell-wall. 
Pec’'ten (Lat., acomb) + = STeRIgma, 
pec'tie (rnxros, coagulated), relatin 
to pectin, as pec’tic Ac’id, suppose 
to form a large part of fruit-jelly ; 
Pec’tin, or Pec’tine, a jelly-like sub- 
stance in fruits ; ¢f. PEcTosE ; pec- 
tina’ceous (+ aceous) ; resembling 
pectin; gelatinous. 
pec'tinate, pectina’tus (Lat., like a 
comb), pinnatifid with narrow seg- 
ments set close like the teeth of a 
comb ; pec’tinatory, applied by De 
Bary to two series of vascular 
bundles whose members alternate 
with each other as the teeth of 
two combs. 
Pec’tose (yrds, coagulated), a sub- 
stance allied to mucilage which 
occurs in unripe fruits (Frémy) ; 
pecto’sic Ac’id, is associated with 
pectic acid in fruit jelly ; Pectocel’- 
luloses, ¢f. CELLULOSE. 
peda'linerved, etc. = PEDATINERVED, 
robably a misprint in Henslow’s 
ictionary. 
peda'lis (Lat.), a foot long or high. 
ped’ate, peda’tus (Lat., footed, in 
botany, 'palmately divided or parted 
with the lateral divisions two-cleft ; 
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