224 GLOSSAET. 



Orthdlropous oi Orlhoirepal (ovule or seed) : p. 122, 135, fig. 270, 274. 



Osseous : of a bony texture. 



0ml: broadly elliptical; p; 88. 



dvartj : tliat part of the pistil containing the ovules or future seeds ; p. 86, 116. 



Omte : shaped like an egg with the broader end downwards, or, in piano sur- 



faces, such as leaves, like the section of an egg lengthwise ; p. 58, fig. 89. 

 Oivid: ovate or oval in a solid form. 

 Ooute: the body which is destined to become a seed ; p. 86, 116, 122. 



Palea (plural pcdex) : chaff; the inner husks of Grasses ; the chaff or bracts on 

 the receptacle of many Composita^, as Coreopsis, fig. 220, and Sunflower. 



Paleaceous : furnished with chaff, or chaffy in texture. 



Palmate : when leaflets or the divisions of a leaf all spread from the apex of the 

 petiole, like the hand with the outspread fingers ; p. 167, fig. 129, &c. 



Patmateli/ (veined, lobcd, &c.) : in a palmate manner; p. 57, 63, 65. 



Panduriform : fiddle-shaped (which see). 



Panicle : an open cluster ; like a raceme, but more or less compound ; p. 81, 

 fig. 163. 



Panicled, Paniculate : arranged in panicles, or like a panicle. 



Papei-y : of about the consistence of letter-paper. 



Papilionaceous : butterfly-shaped ; applied to such a, corolla as that of the Pea 

 and the Locust-tree ; p. 105, fig. 217. 



Papilla (plural pa/)i/te) : little nipple-shaped protuberances. 



Papillate, Papillose : covered with papillae. 



Pappus : thistle-down. The down crowning the acheniura of the Thistle, and 

 other CompositEB, represents the calyx ; so the scales, teeth, chaff, as well 

 as bristles, or whatever takes the place of the calyx in this family, are called 

 the pappus; fig. 292-296, p. 130. 



Parallel-L'eined, or nerved (leaves) : p. 55, 56. 



Pardphyses : jointed filaments mixed with the anthcridia of Mosses. (Manual, 

 p. 607.) 



Par^nchi/ma : soft cellular tissue of plants, like the green pulp of leaves. 



Parietal (placentae, &c.) : attached to the walls (parieles) of the ovaiy or pen- 

 carp; p. 119, 120. 



Parted : separated or cleft into parts almost to the base ; p. 62. 



Partial involucre, same as an involucel : partial petiole, a division of a main leaf- 

 stalk or the stalk of a leaflet : partial peduncle, a branch of a peduncle : par- 

 tial iimbd, an urabellet, p. 81 . 



Patent: spreading; open. Patulous; moderately spreading. 



Pauci-, in composition : few ; as pnucijlorous, few-flowered, &c. 



Pear-shaped: solid obovate, the shape of a pear. 



Pectinate : pinnatifid or pinnately divided into narrow and close divisions, like 

 the tcctli of a comb. 



Pedale : like a bird's foot ; palmate or palraately cleft, with the side divisions 

 again cleft, as in Viola pedata, &c. 



Pedatehj cleft, lobed, &c. . cut in a pedate way. 



Pedicel: the stalk of each particular flower of a cluster; p. 78, fig. 156. 



Pedicellate, PiMicelled: furnished with a pedicel. 



