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GLOSSAET AND INDEX. 



Persistent : remaining, as the leaves of 



evei'greens through the winter, 172; 



and the calyx, &c. of many plants 



until the fruit is formed, 279. 

 Personate : masked ; 278, fig. 459, 



460. 

 Paiuse: having slits or holes. 

 Pirulate: having /j^rute or bud-scales. 

 Peruvian Bark, 432. 

 Petal : a leaf of the corolla, 222. 

 Pe'taline, or p^taloid: petal-like, in color 



and texture, 260. 

 P^tiolar : borne on the petiole. 

 P^tiolate, petioled : having a petiole. 

 Petiole: leafstalk, 145, 170. 

 Petialulate: the leaflet stalked, 164. 

 Pe'tiolule: the stalk of a leaflet, 164. 

 Phcendgamous, or phanerdgamous : hav- 

 ing manifest flowers, 69. 

 Phsenogamous or Phanerogamous 



Plants, 69, 369, 375. 

 Phalanges: bundles of adelphous or 



clustered stamens. 

 Phordnthium: the receptacle of Com- 



positee. 

 Phrymacese, 450. 

 Phjctilogy : same as Algology. 

 Phylla : leaves, 274. -pltt/Uous : leaved, 



as S-phyllouSf three-leaved, &c. 

 Phyllodineous : bearing or resembling a 

 Phyllddiuni : a dilated petiole taking 



the place of a blade, 170. 

 Phyllotdxis, or phyllotdxy, 133. 

 Physiological I5otany, 14, 17. 

 Phytelephantese, 485. 

 Phytdgraphy : descriptive Botany. 

 Phytolaccaeeae, 463. 

 Phytdlogy : Botany in general. 

 Phyton : a simple plant-individual, or 



plant-element, 96. 

 Phyfdtomy : vegetable anatomy, 14. 

 Pileate, pileiform : like a cap or 

 Pileus, 507. 

 Pileorhiza : the cap of a root, as found 



in some aquatic plants; tig. 102. 

 PUiferous : bearing or tipped with hairs 



[pili). 

 Pilose : hairy, as distinguished from 



woolly or downy ; i. o. distinct and 



straight, but not rigid hairs. 

 Pilosity : hairiness. 

 Pimento, 418. 

 Pine-apple, 492. 

 Piney Tallow, 400. 

 Pink-root, 435. 

 Pinna : one of the primary divisions of 



a pinnately compound leaf, 1 64. 

 Pinnate, pinnated: a compound leaf 



with leaflets arranged along the 



sides of a common petiole; 163, 



fig. 288-290. 

 Pinnately clejl, lobed, parted, &c., 160. 



Pinnateh 3-plurifoliolate, &c., 164. 



Pinnately veined, 155, 160. 



Pinnutifid: pinnately cleft ; fig. 261. 



Pinndtisect: pinnately divided; fig. 

 263. 



Pinnule : a secondai-y division of a pin- 

 nately compound leaf. 



Piperacese, 469. 



Piperine, 469. 



Pisiform : pea-shaped. 



Pistachio-nut, 406. 



Pistil: the ovule-bearing organ of a 

 flower, 223, 287. 



Pistillate : furnished with pistils, or pis- 

 tils only, 261. 



Pislillidium, 337. 



Pitch, 480. 



Pitchers: see Ascidium ; 169, 387, fig. 

 299-301. 



Pitcher-shaped : campanulate or tubular, 

 but with a narrower mouth. 



Pith, 118. 



Pits, 37. 



Pitted : marked with small depressions. 



Pitted tissue, 45. 



Placenta : the place or part of the ovary 

 which bears the ovules or seeds, 

 289. 



Placentation : the arrangement of pla- 

 centas. 



Placentiferous : bearing the placentee. 



Place'nttform : nearly the same as quoit- 

 sliaped. 



Plaited : see Plicate, 273. 



Plane: flat. 



Plantaginacese, 444. 



Platanacea;, 476. 



Plaiycdrpoiis : broad-fruited. 



Pleio; in Greek derivatives : full of, or 

 many ; as 



Pleiospermous : many-seeded, &c. 



Pleurenchyma : woody tissue, 41. 



Pleurorhtzal : embryo witli the radicle 

 lying against the side or edge of 

 the cotyledons ; same as accum- 

 bcnt. 



Plicate, plicative : thrown into longitu- 

 dinal plaits {plicin) ; folded, 144, 

 273. 



Plum, 415. 



Plumbaginacese, 444. 



Plumose : feathered ; when bristles, &c. 

 have fine hairs on each side like 

 the plume of a feather, as the pap- 

 pus of Thistles, &c. ; fig. 890. 



Plumule : the bud or growing point of 

 the embryo above the cotyledons, 

 71,324. 



Pluri-, in words of Latin origin : sev- 

 eral, at least more than one ; as 



Plurifidrous : several -flowered. 



Plwifdliolate ; bearing several leaflets. 



