Putamen 
quadrifoliolate 
Puta’men (Lat., shells, rind), (1) the 
shell of a nut; (2) the hardened 
endocarp of stone-fruit ; putamina’- 
ceus (+aceus), having the texture 
of the stone of a drupe. 
Pye’nid, Pyc’nide, Pycnid’ium, pl. 
Pyenid’ia (rvxvds, dense), a cavity 
resembling a pyrenocarp in 
Lichens, etc., containing gonidia 
(pycnoconidia or stylospores) ; 
Pyenid’iophore (gopéw, I carry), a 
compound sporophore bearing 
pycnidia; pycnoceph’alous (kefady, 
a head), thick-headed, as when 
Composite flower-heads are clus- 
tered closely; Pycnid’iospore (a7opda, 
a spore), a spore produced in a 
pycnidium; Pycnoconid‘ium (+ 
Conrpium), a conidium produced in 
a pycnidium, a stylospore ; Pycno- 
gonid’‘ium (+Gonip1um) = Pyono- 
CONIDIUM ; Pyc’nospore (crop, a 
seed) = PYCNOCONIDIUM ; pycnos’- 
tachous (ord vs, a spike), in com- 
pact spikes, 
pygmaeus (Lat.), dwarf, pygmy. 
pyogenet'ic (rior, pus, yéveors, begin- 
ning), pus-forming, the function of 
certain bacteria. 
pyracan’thus (rip, fire, dkavda, a 
thorn), with red or yellow spines. 
pyram’idal, pyramida’lis (Lat.), pyra- 
mid-shaped. 
Py’rene, Pyre’na (rvpyv, kernel or 
stone), (1) a nucule or nutlet; (2) 
a small stone of a drupe, or similar 
fruit; Pyrenar’ium, a pear-fruit, 
pome-like, but tapering; Pyren- 
a/rius, a drupaceous pome, as in 
Crataegus; Pyre’nin, Schwarz’s 
term for the constituent of 
the body of the nucleus; ¢f. 
AMPHIPYRENIN; Pyre‘nium ; an old 
name for the receptacle of Sphaeri- 
aceous Fungi; Pyre/nocarp (xapros, 
fruit) (1) = PeritHecium; (2) = 
DrRvuPeE; adj. pyrenocar’pous; py- 
reno’deous (eldos, resemblance), like 
a pyrenoid, wart-like; pyreno‘dine, 
‘* globular and nuclear” (Leighton); 
Py’renoid (el5os, resemblance), 
minute rounded granular colourless 
bodies, embedded in the chromato- 
phores, amylum-centres (Schmitz); 
Pyrenoli’chenes( + Lichen), Wainio’s 
term for Pyrenomy’cetes, that is, 
Fungi possessing perithecia. 
Pyrid’ion (pyrus, or pirus, a pear), 
used by Linnaeus for the pear- 
fruit, a tapering pome ; pyrif’erous 
(fero, I bear), pear-shaped ; py’ri- 
form, pyriform’'is (forma, shape), 
resembling a pear in shape. 
pyxidate, pyxida’tus (Lat., box-like), 
furnished with a lid, as some cap- 
sules; Pyxid’ula ¢ = Pyxid’ium, 
Moench’s term for the fruit of 
Amaranthus, a dehiscent capsule, 
sometimes used for the following : 
Pyx'is, (1) a capsule with circum- 
scissile dehiscence, the upper 
portion acting as a lid; (2) t the 
theca of a Moss; (3) ‘‘ the same as 
Scyphus” (Lindley). 
quadrangular, quadrangular’ is(Lat.), 
four - cornered ; quadran’gulus, 
quadrangula’tus (Lat.), having four 
angles, which are usually right 
angles. 
Quad’rant (quadrans, a fourth part), 
the quarter of an oospore, which 
is so divided by the ~ Wall; quad- 
ricap’sular (+ CapsuLa), having four 
capsules; quadricotyledo’neus (+ 
CoTYLEepoNn), apparently with four 
cotyledons, each normal cotyledon 
being divided to the base; quad- 
ricrw’ral, quadricru’ris (crus, cruris, 
a leg), with four supports ; quadri- 
den’tate (dentatus, toothed), having 
four teeth ; quadridigita’to-pin- 
na‘tus (digitus, a finger), with four 
digitate divisions, each of which is 
pinnate ; quadridigita’tus, divided 
into four divisions ; Quadriere’mus 
(+ Eremus)=Coxrnosium ; quadri- 
far’ious, -rius (Lat., fourfold), in 
four ranks, as leaves; quad’rifid, 
quadrifidus (Lat.), four - cleft, 
to about the middle or below; 
quad’rifoil (foliwm, a leaf) = quad- 
rifo'liate, when the petiole bears 
four leaflets at the same point; 
quadrifo'liolate, strictly, with four 
subordinate leaflets, but sometimes 
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