Glossary of Botanical Terms. 



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Pulnslris ; growing in marshy places. 

 Papilonaceous 5 butterfly-shaped: an ir- 

 regular corolla, consisting of four 

 j)ieces or petals ; the uppermost is the 

 banner, the lateral ones wings, and 

 ' the lowest the keel. 



Pappus; the down of some seeds, as 

 the Dandelion. 



Papillose; covered with protuberances. 



Patens ; spreading. 



Pectinate; like the teeth of a comb. 



Pedate ; having a central leaf or seg- 

 ment and two side ones, which are 

 compound. 



Pedicel ; a little stalk. 



Pellicle ; a thin, membraneous coat. 



Pellucid ; transparent or limpid. 



Peltate ; having the petiole attached to 

 the under part of the leaf. 



Pendant ; hanging down. 



Peregrinus ; wandering ; foreign. 



Perfoliate; having a stem running thro' 

 a leaf. 



Perianth ; a sort of calyx : surrounding 

 the flower. 



Persistent ; not falling off. 



Peristomium ; the fringe or teeth around 

 the mouth of the capsule of mosses 

 under the lid. 



Personate ; masked. 



Phrenogamous ; such flowers as have 

 stamens and pistils visible, in opposi- 

 tion to cryptogamous. 



Phylloid ; resembling a leaf. 



Pilose ; hairy, with a stiff pubescence. 



Phytology ; the science which treats of 

 the organization of vegetables. 



Plumose ; feather-like. 



Premorse; bitten off: ending abruptly. 



Prasinus ; green, like a leek. 



Pratensis ; growing in the meadow land. 



Procumbent; lying on the ground. 



Proliferous ; smaller flowers growing 

 out of a centre flower. 



Pubescent; hairy, downy, or woolly. 



Pumilus ; small, low. 



Punctate; dotted. 



Pyriform; pear-shaped. 



Quaternate ; four together. 



Quinate ; five together. 



Quinquafid ; five-cleft. 



Rachis; the common stalk, to which'the 



florets and spiklets of grasses are attach- 

 ed. Sometimes applied to the mid- 

 rib of leaves and fronds. 

 Radiate ; having ligulate florets placed like 

 rays at the circumference of some 

 compound flowers. 

 Radical ; growing immediately from the 



root. 

 Rameus ; proceeding from the branches. 

 Ramose ; branching. 

 Reclined ; bending over. 

 Rectus ; straight. 

 Recurved ; curved backwards. 

 Reflexed ; bent backwards. 

 Repand ; waving on the edge. 

 Repeus ; creeping. 

 Resupinate ; upside down. 

 Reticulate; veins crossing each other, like 



net work. 

 Retuse; having a slight notch in the end. 



less than marginate. 

 Reversed ; bent backwrad towards the 



base. 

 Ringent ; gaping, or grinning* 

 Rostrate ; wheel-form. 

 Rotundus; round. 

 Rugose ; wrinkled. 

 Runcinate; having large teeth pointed 



backwrad. 

 Rupestris ; growing among rocks. 

 Sagittate ; arrow-shaped. 

 Samara ; a seed vessel having a winged 

 appendage, and not opening by valves. 

 Saliferous ; producing salt. 

 Sarmentose ; running on the ground. 

 Scabous ; rough. 

 Scandeus ; climbing. 

 Sempervirens; living through the winter 



and retaining it leaves. 

 Serrated : notched, like the teeth of a saw. 

 Sessile; placed immediately on the stem 

 without the intervention of a footstalk. 

 Seta; a bristle. 

 Siccus; dry. 



Sinuate ; the margin hollowed out, resem- 

 bling a bay. 

 Spatulate; large, obtuse at the emi grad- 

 ually tapering to a stalk at the base. 

 Spine ; a sharp process growing from 



the wood. 

 Squamose ; scaly. 

 Squarrose ; ragged. 



