GLOSSARY. 



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

 uncle : partial umbel, an umbellet. 



Patent : spreading ; open. Patulous : moderately spreading. 



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



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



Pidiiiute: 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, Pedicelled : furnislied with a pedicel. 



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



Peduncled, 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. 



Penicillate : 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. 



Perigy nium : 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 Cyperacese. 



Perigynous : 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. 



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



Petiole : a footstalk ot a leaf ; a leaf-stalk. 



Petioled, Petiolate : furnished with a petiole. 



Petidlnlate : 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. 



Piliferous : 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 



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