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Pdyph^Hoia : many-leaved ; formed of several distinct pieces, as the calyx of 



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

 Polys^palous : same as the last when applied to the calyx ; p. 103. 

 Polt/sp^rmous ; many-seeded. 



Pome: the apple, pear, and similar fleshy fruits ; p. 128. 

 ' Porous : full of holes or pores. 



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

 Prcefloration ; same as aestivation; p. 108. 

 Prcefoliation : same as vernation; p. 75. 

 Prcemdrse : ending abruptly, as if bitten off. 



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

 Prickly : bearing pricldes, orsharp projections like them. 

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

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

 Prismdtic : prism-shaped ; having three or more angles bounding flat or hollowed 



sides. 

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

 Procumient: trailing on the ground; p. 37. 

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



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

 Proltferous (literally, bearing offspring) r where a new branch rises from an 



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



Gennanica, &c. 

 Prostrate : lying flat on the ground. 

 PnSteine : a! vegetable product containing nitrogen ; p. 165. 

 Prdtoplasm : the soft nitrogenous lining or contents of cells ; p. 165. 

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

 Pub^rulent : covered with flne and short, almost imperceptible down. 

 Pubescent : hairy or downy, especially with fine and soft hairs or pubescence. 

 Pvlvirulera, or Pulveraceous : dusted ; covered with flne powder, or what looks 



like such. 

 Piiloinate : cushioned, or shaped like a cushion. 

 Punctate : dotted, either with minute holes 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. 

 Pyramidal : shaped like a pyramid. 



Pyr4ne, PyrinO. : a seed-like nutlet or stone Of a small drupe. 

 Pyxis, PyxiJiuw! a pod opening round horizontally by a lid ; p. 133, fig. 298, 311. 



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



Qitadrdngular : four-angled. Quadrifoliate : four-leaved. 



Quddrifid: four-cleft; p 62. 



Q)Mt€rnale ; in fours. QuinMe : in flves. 



Quinaincial: in a quincunx ; when the parts in aestivation are flve, two of them 



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



fi£. 224. 

 QlibUuple: five-fold. 



