316 GLOSSARY 
regularly on each side of a common stem. Vide Br- 
PINNATE. 
PISTILLATE (pistillum = a pestle; pinso = to pound). 
Central part of the flower inside the stamens and con- 
-taining ovary, style and stigma, and ovules. 
PitTED (puteus = a well). Marked with small depressions. 
Pricatus (plicare = to fold like a fan). Plaited lengthwise 
like a lady’s fan. 
Potitus (politus = polished). Of shiny and polished appear- 
ance. Note Picea Polita. 
Potten (pollen = anything as fine as dust, hence flour, meal, 
etc.). The usually yellow male and fertilizing powder 
contained in the anthers or top of the stamens. 
PRUINOSE (pruina = hoar frost or rime). With the appear- 
ance of a plum-like indetachable bloom upon it. 
PsEupo (Gk. pseudes = false). Prefix signifying false and 
not true to type, ¢.g. pseudo-Tsuja Douglasii, pseudo- 
Larix Kceemferi, etc. 
PUBESCENT (pubescens = beginning to grow a beard and arrive 
at man’s estate). Hairy. Vide Downy, TOMENTOSE. 
Putvini (pulvinus =a cushion). Applied to the woody 
enlargement at the base of some leaves, e.g. the Spruce. 
Pumitus and Pumitio (= dwarf). Applied to dwarf-growing 
trees. 
PUNGENS (pungere = to penetrate). Implying the convey- 
ance of a strong, disagreeable impression to the sense of 
smell. 
QUINATE ; QuINz& (quinque = five). Applied to Pines whose 
needle-like leaves grow in bundles of five. 
RAcEME (racemus = a cluster of grapes). A flower cluster or 
inflorescence, where flowers grow on equal-lengthed 
flower stalks (or so-called pedicels), and all spring from a 
common stalk (or so-called rachis). 
Racuis (rachis = spine). The common stalk, or axis, of the 
cluster from ‘which the pedicels spring. Vide PEDICEL. 
Rapiatus (radius = a spoke of a wheel). Spreading out from 
a common centre. 
RECEPTACLE (recipere = to receive). The swollen top of a 
peduncle, or stalk, from which several flowers start 
together. 
