GLOSSARY OF BOTANICAL TERMS USED, 

 Pneumatophore, organs for admitting oxygen to the roots in 



elongated in shape and dehiscing along one or both sutures, sui 

 Leguminous order or other fruit resembling a typical Leguminous 



Prickle, a point. <l -\ r ■ \k, pi ..»■-- u .nuim» from the epi- 

 ssue only. Cp. Thorn. 



Proitmhknt. when the hi am lus spread along the ground the whole 



-f'l.iNKKvii). when several primary nerves diverge from close to 

 the base but the lateral ones diverge from the mid-rib a little above the 



Protandrous, the anthers ripenm- mit. iln pistil is ready for 



I/at-,,,. Syn. Proterandrous. 

 Prothallhjm, prothallus, the plant produced direct from a spore. 



\i". pedant le or other parts not usually considered to belong to the 

 fruit proper, e. g. a pine-apple. 

 PtiBERtiLous, slightly pubescent, Syn. Puberulent. 

 Pubescent, covered' with .-lose short fine hair. Pubescence is a 



Puxotate, marl points. 



Ppngent, with ting the flesh. 



the hard endocarp, especially a many-celled endocarp, 



Pyrene. When a putamen consists of or breaks up on ripening into 

 several parts each enclosing a seed, each such part is called a pyrene. 



•Qpetrous, in composition = -cornered or -angled. In this Flora 

 ^•quetrous signifies more sharply 3-angled than 3-gonous. 



:. segments or leaflets. 



' ' ' ' '■ ' ' ; r 



rthan 

 youngest nearest t 



s leaf the primary i 



