GLOSSABY OF BOTANIC TJErmS. 



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Pcnicillate:— shaped like a little 



Inrush. 

 Penninerved :— pinnately vemed. 

 Pentadelphous :— having the sta- 

 mens in five bundles. 

 Pentagynous :— with five pistils 



or styles. ;. c n 



Pentameroust-ccmpcsed o± five 



members. 

 Pentandrous :— having 5 stamens. 

 Perennial:— a plant which lives 

 for several years, not dying after 

 flowering and fruiting cnce. 

 Perfect :— applied to a hermaphro- 

 dite flower. 

 Perfoliate :— applied to a leaf when 

 the stem apparently passes 

 through it. 

 Perianth :— the floral envelopes, 



calyx or corolla, or both. 

 Pericarp: -the wall of the fruc- 

 tified ovary. 

 Perisperm :— the ordinary albu- 

 minous part of a seed, often res- 

 tricted to that which is formed 

 outside the embryo sac. See En- 

 dosperm. 

 Pertusus :— perforated. 

 Petal:— tte separate or united 



parts of a corolla. 

 Petiolate :— furnished with a peti- 

 ole. 

 Petiole '.—the footstalk of a leaf. 

 Petiolule :— the petiole of a leaflet. 

 Pbsenogams :— having manifest 

 flowers, in contradistinction to 

 Cryptogams. 

 Phanerogams -.—See Phsenogams. 

 Phoeniceus :— scarlet. 

 Phyllode:— a petiole which takes 

 the form and performs the func- 

 tions of a leaf. 

 Pictus:— maxked with colour as 



though painted. 

 Pinnate :— when leaflets are ar- 

 ranged on each side of a common 

 petiole. 

 Finnatifid :— pinnately cleft. 

 Pinnatipartite :— pinnately parted. 

 Pinnatisect :— pinnately parted 

 down to the rhachis. 



Pinnule':- one of the primary divi- 

 sions of a bipinnate leaf. 



Pisiform :- pea-shaped. 



Pistil:— the female organs of a 

 flower collectively; in its 

 simplest form it consists of a 

 single carpel, as in the pea, with 

 style and stigma, the style being 

 sometimes not present. 



Placenta :— the place or process 

 in the ovary to which the ovules 

 are attached. 



Platycarpus :-with a broad fruit. 



Platyphyllus :— broad-leaved. 



Plicate :— folded into plaits. 



Plumule :— the primary leaf -bud in 

 an embryo. 



Pod:— the same as legume, but 

 often applied to many pod-like 

 many-seeded indehiscent fruits. 



Podocarpus :— with a stalked fruit. 



Pollen:— the fertilizing dust-like 

 grains formed inside the anthers 

 of flowering plants. 



Pollinium:— a more or less coher- 

 ent mass of pollen- grains, as in 

 AsclepiadacecB and in orchids. 



Polyadelphous :— having the sta- 

 mens in many bundles. 



Polyandrous:— having an indefi- 

 nite number of stamens. 



Polycephalus :— with many heads. 



Polygamous ;— with unisexual and 

 hermaphrodite flowers on the 

 same plant. 



Polygamo dioecious :— dioeciously 

 polygamous. 



Polymorphic :— variable as to 

 shape or habit. 



Polypetalous : - having separate 

 petals. 



Polyrhizus,:— with many roots. 

 Polys epalous :— having separate 



sepals. 

 Precatorlus :— referring to prayer, 



as the seeds of Ahrus which are 



made into rosaries. 

 Procerus :— very tall. 

 Proliferous :— bearing progeny as 



ofPshoots. 



