GiOSSART. 225 



Peduncle : a flower-stalk, whether of a single flower or of a flower-cluster ; p. 78. 



Pedunded, Pedunculate : furnished with a peduncle. 



Peltate: shield-shaped: said of a leaf, whatever its shape, when the petiole is 



attached to the lower side, somewhere within tlie margin ; p. 59, fig. 102, 178. 

 Pendent : hanging. Pendulous : somewhat hanging or drooping, 

 Penicillate : tipped with a tuft of fine hairs, like a painter's pencil ; as the stig- 

 mas of some Grasses. 

 Penta- (in words of Greek composition) : five ; as 

 Pentdgynous : with five pistils or styles ; p. 116. 

 Pentdmerous : with its parts in fives, or on the plan of five. 

 Penidndrous : having five stamens ; p. 112. Penldstichous : in five ranks. 

 Pepo; a fruit like the Melon and Cucumber; p. 128. 

 Perennial: lasting from year to year ; p. 21. 

 Perfect (flower) : having both stamens and pistils ; p. 89. 

 Perfoliate: passing through the leaf, in appearance ; p. 67, fig. 131, 132. 

 Perforate : pierced with holes, or with transparent dots resembling holes, as an 



Orange-leaf. 

 Perianth : the leaves of the flower generally, especially when we cannot readily 



distinguish them into calyx and corolla ; p. 85. 

 Pericarp : the ripened ovary ; the walls of the,fruit ; p. 127. 

 Pericdrpic : belonging to the pericarp. 



P^richreth : the cluster of peculiar leaves at the base of the fruit-stalk of Mosses. 

 Perichceiial : belonging to the perichseth. 

 Perigdnium, Perigdne : same as perianth. 

 Perigynium : bodies around the pistil ; applied tothe closed cup or bottle-shaped 



body which encloses the ovary of Sedges, and to the bristles, little scales, 



&c. of the flowers of some other CyperaceiE. 

 Perigynous : the petals and stamens borne on the crfyx ; p. 104, 111. 

 Peripheric : around the outside, or periphery, of any organ. 

 Pdrisperm: a name for the albumen of a seed (p. 136). 

 Peristome : the fringe of teeth, &c. around the orifice of the capsule of Mosses. 



(Manual, p. 607.) 

 Persistent : remaining beyond the period when such parts commonly fall, as the 



leaves of evergreens, and the palyx, &c. of such flowei-s as remain during 



the growth of the fruit. 

 P&sonate : masked ; a bilabiate corolla with a projection, or pclaie^ i» tlia tliroat, 



as of the Snapdragon ; p. 106, fig. 210, 211. 

 Petal: a leaf of the corolla ; p. 85'.' . • . • - ■.vton'o\i)o'\ 



Petaloid: petal-like ; resembling or colored like petals. .q ; (^bnl 



P^Cwfe; a footstalk of a leaf ; a leaf-stalk, p. 64.- .- •. aiio«o\w\\ito'>\!_W^_ 



Petiokd, Petiolate: furnished with a petiole. .3* fit- .^ii ,"8I 



Petidlulate : said of a leaflet when raised on its own partiei Jfafetalb. t«omriv"\iW\ 

 Phcendgamous, ox Phanerdgamous : plttnts bcaringtIilei(v^lfe{albui3rit)i!i>dnoiin^i6eeds: 



same as Flowering Plants ; p. 177, 182. .bolgn/j-ynftm •. \nno^i]^i}o'\ 



PhyUddium (plural phgllodia) : a leaf wi^S;^SobJ(Wte(is-*i^laa5afApetiofei!.\i(bo'iSa 



New Holland Acacias ; p. 69.^8 jhno "io 81-idc| vfimn 1o I< jfrnol •, 2iioi"i!n\i\o'\ 

 Phylhtdxis, or Phyllotaxy : the arrangiffftglltjftfvlsw^ftOnitiho^^Om J«pi(7ibinv\o1 

 Physiological Botany, .Phi^^^e^ ps, Ssniitjb sijs aljijaq adl aoAti : vsa\s&ti^\<f\. 

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