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Poli/ph^Uous : many-leavod ; formed of several distinct pieces, as the calyx of 



Sedum, fig. 168, Flax, fig. 174, &c. 

 Poli/s^pahus : same as the last when applied to the calyx ; p. 103. 

 Polijspermous : many-seeded. 



Pome: the apple, pear, and similar fleshy fraits j p. 123. 

 Porous : full of holes or pores. 



Pouch : the silicic or short pod, as of Shepherd's Purse ; p. 133. 

 Prcsfloratton : same as astlvation; p. 108. 

 Pmfoliation: same as vernation; p. 75. 

 PrcEindrse : ending abruptly, as if bitten off. 



Prickles ; sharp elevations of the bark, coming off with it, as of the Eoso ; p. 39. 

 Priclcli/ : bearing prickles, or sharp projections lilio them. 

 PrCmine: the outer coat of the covering of the.ovulo ; p. 124. 

 Primdrdial: earliest formed ; primordial leaves are the first after the cotyledons. 

 Prismatic : prisin-sh.iped ; having tliroe or more angles bounding flat or hollowed 



sides. 

 Process : any projection from the surface or edge of a body. 

 Procumbent : trailing on the ground; p. 37. 

 Produced : extended or projecting, as the upper ^epal of a Larkspur is produced 



above into a spur ; p. 91, fig. 183. 

 Proliferous (literally, bearing offspring) : where a new branch rises from an. 



older one, or one head or cluster of flowers out of another, as in Filago 



Germanica, &c. 

 Prostrate : lying flat on the ground. ~ 



Prdteine : a vegetable product containing nitrogen ; p. 165. 

 Prdloplasm : the soft nitrogenous lining or contents of cells ; p. 1 65. 

 Priiinose, Pruinate : frosted ; covered with a powder like hoar-frost. 

 Pube'rulent : covered with fine and short, almost imperceptible down. 

 Pube'scent : hairy or downy, especially with fine .and soft hairs or pubescence. 

 Pulverulent, or Pulveraceous : dusted ; covered with fine powder, or what looks 



like such. 

 Pulcinate : cushioned, or shaped like a cushion. 

 Punctate : dotted, cither with minute lioles or what look as such /(as the leaves of 



St. John's-wort and the Orange), or with minute projecting dots. 

 Pungent: very hard, and sharp-pointed ; prickly-pointed. 

 Putdmen: the stone of a drupe, or the shell of a nut ; p. 128. 

 Pijramidal : shaped like a pyramid. 



Pijrine, Pip-tna : a seed-like nutlet or stone of a small drupe. 

 Pijxis, Pijxtdium :_ a pod opening round horizontally by a lid ; p. 133, fig. 298, 311. 



Quadri-, in words of Latin origin ; four ; as 



Qitadrdiigular : four-angled. Quarfrj/b/iaie ; four-leaved. 



Quddrljid: four-cleft; p 62. 



Qiiaternate : in fours. Quinate: in fives. 



Quincuncial : in a quincunx ; when the parts in estivation are five, two of them 



outside, two inside, and one half out and half in, as shown in the calyx, 



fig. 224. 

 Quintuple: five^fold. 



