GLOSSARY. 



leaf-stalk or the stalk of a leaflet ; partial pedwncle, a branch of a ped- 

 uncle : partial wribel, an umbellet. 

 Patent : spreading ; open. Patulous : moderately spreading. 

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

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

 Pictinate: pinnatifid or pinnately divided into narrow and close divisions, 



like the teeth of a comb. 

 Pedate : like a bird's foot ; palmate or palmately cleft, with the side divis- 

 ions again cleft, as in Viola pedata, &c. 

 Pedately cleft, lobed, &c. : cut in a pedate way. 

 Pedicel: the stalk of each particular flower of a cluster. 

 Pedicellate, Pedlcelled : furnished with a pedicel. 



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

 PSduncled, 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 the margin. 

 Pendent : hanging. Pendulous : somewhat hanging or drooping. 

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



stigmas of some Grasses. 

 Pepo : a fruit like the Melon and Cucumber. 

 Perennial : lasting from year to year. 

 Perfect (flower) : having both stamens and pistils. 

 Perfoliate : passing through the leaf, in appearance. 

 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. 

 Pericarp : the ripened ovary ; the walls of the fruit. . 



Perigynium : bodies around the pistil ; applied to the 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 Cyperacew. 

 Perigi/nous : the petals and stamens borne on the calyx. 

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

 the leaves of evergreens, and the calyx, &c. of such flowers as remain 

 during the growth of the fruit. 

 Personate : masked ; a bilabiate corolla with a projection, or palate in the 



throat, as of the Snapdragon. 

 Petal : a leaf of the corolla. 



Petaloid: petal-like; resembling or colored like petals. 

 P€tiole : a footstalk ot a leaf ; a leaf -stalk. 

 Petioled, Petiolate : furnished with a petiole. 



Petidlulate : said of a leaflet when raised on its own partial leaf-stalk. 

 Phcendgamous, or Phanerogamous: plants bearing flowers and producing 



seeds ; same s Flowering Plants. 

 PiUferous : bearing a slender bristle or hair (pilum), or beset with hairs. 

 Pilose : hairy ; clothed with soft slender hairs. 



Pinna : a primary branch of the petiole of a bipinnate or tripinnate leaf. 

 Pinnule: a secondary branch of the petiole of a bipinnate or tripinnate 

 leaf. 



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