partitus 
pedate 
parti’tus (Lat.) = PARTED. 
Par'tridge-wood, oak-wood destroyed 
by Stereum (Tubeuf). 
parviflor’us (parvus, small, flos, floris, 
a flower), having smaller flowers 
than in its congeners ; parvifo’lius 
( folium, a leaf), with smaller leaves 
than the allied species; par’vus 
(Lat.), small. 
Pas’sage Cells, cells in the exodermis 
or endodermis of roots which 
retain thin unaltered walls, by 
which water can pass. 
Pas’salus (zdocados, a peg), a gamo- 
sepalous calyx. 
pas’cual (pascuum, a pasture), H. C. 
Watson’s term for plants which 
grow in pastures and grassy 
commons, amongst less rank herb- 
age than ‘‘pratal” ; pas‘cuus (Lat. ), 
relating to pastures. 
Pasteuriza’tion,the preservation of fer- 
menting liquids by heating to about 
140° Fahr., so as to germin- 
ate and then destroy Fungi and 
their spores contained in the fluids 
treated (Crozier). 
Patella (Lat., a small dish), an orbi- 
cular sessile apothecium, with a 
marginal rim distinct from the thal- 
lus; patellar’oid (eléos, likeness), 
resembling a patella ; patel’liform, 
patelliform'is( forma,shape), shaped 
like a small dish, circular and 
rimmed ; Patel’lula, a diminutive 
patella; patel’lulate, possessing pa- 
tellulae. 
pa'tent, pat’ens (Lat.), 
patentis’simus (Lat.), 
spread out. 
pat/eriform (patera, a dish or saucer, 
forma, shape), saucer-shaped. 
Path-fiinders = Honery-cuipzs, lines 
of colour leading to nectaries. 
pathogenic, pathog’enous (7dOos, 
suffering, disease, yévos, race, off- 
spring), producing. disease ; Patho- 
geneity, the quality of disease 
giving; Pathol’ogy (Adyos, dis- 
course), the science of diseases ; 
Vegetable ~, that department of 
botany which treats of plant dis- 
eases, 
spreading ; 
extremely 
pat’ulous, -/us (Lat.), slightly spread- 
ing. 
pauciflor’ous, -rus (paucus, few, flos, 
floris,aflower), few flowered; pauci- 
fo’lius (folium, a leaf), having few 
leaves; paucijuga’tus (jugum, a 
yoke), with only a few pairs of 
leaflets in a pinnate leaf 
pau’siacus (pausia, a kind of olive), 
olive-green. | 
pavoni'nus (Lat., pertaining to a pea- 
cock), peacock-blue. 
pear-formed, ~ shaped, obovoid or 
obconic with a tapering base. 
pearl-grey, ‘‘ pure grey, a little verg- 
ing to blue” (Lindley). — 
Pébrine’ (F'r.), a disease of silkworms 
caused by Nosema Bombycis, Naeg., 
a bacterial organism; it is also 
named GaTTINE. 
Pec’tase (myxrés, coagulated), an 
enzyme which forms vegetable jelly 
from pectic substances occurring in 
the cell-wall. . 
Pec’ten (Lat., acomb) + = STERIGMA. 
pec'tic (rnxros, coagulated), relating 
to pectin, as pec’tic Ac’id, supposed 
to form a large part of fruit-jelly ; 
Pec’tin, or Pec’tine, a jelly-like sub- 
stance in fruits ; cf. PECTOSE ; pec- 
tina’ceous (+ aceous) ; resembling 
pectin; gelatinous. 
pec'tinate, pectina’tus (Lat., like a 
comb), pinnatitid with narrow seg- 
ments set close like the teeth of a 
comb ; pec’tinatory, applied by De 
Bary to two series of vascular 
bundles whose members alternate 
with each other as the teeth of 
two combs. 
Pec'tose (anxrds, coagulated), a sub- 
stance allied to mucilage which 
occurs in unripe fruits (Frémy); 
pecto’sic Ac’id, is associated with 
pectic acid in fruit jelly ; Pectocel’- 
luloses, ¢f. CELLULOSE. 
peda‘linerved, etc. = PEDATINERVED, 
probably a misprint in Henslow’s 
Dictionary. 
peda’lis (Lat.), a foot long or high. 
ped’ate, peda'tus (Lat., footed), in 
botany, palmately divided or parted 
with the lateral divisions two-cleft ; 
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