TABLE -VII. 



OriroLUTtfM Solium, rolled against each other, when their re* 

 spective margins alternately embrace the straight margin 

 of the opposite leaf. 



Octandria, eight males, the eighth class in the Sexual System. 



Officinalis, plants used in medicine, and kept in the apotheca- 

 ries' shops. 



Operculum, a cover, as in the mosses. 



Oppositi Rami Folia, branches and leaves that grow by pairs 



opposite each other. 

 Orbiculatum Folium, round leaves. 



Orchideje Orchis, an order of plants in the Fragmenta Methodi 



Natura.lis of Linnceus. 

 Ordo, order. 



Orgya, a fathom, or six Parisian feet. 

 Ovale Folium, an oval leaf. 

 Ovalium, the germen. 



Ovatum Folium, an oval, or egg-shaped leaf. 



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Pagina Folit, the surface of a leaf. 



Palea, chaff, a thin membrane rising from a common recepta- 

 cle, which separates the flosculi. 

 Paleaceus Pappus, chaffy down. 



Palm.?e, palms, one of the seven families of the vegetable king- 

 dom. 



Palmata Radix, a handed root, as in Orchis. 

 Palmatum Folium, a leaf shaped like an open hand. 

 Palustris, marshy or fenny. 



Panduriforme Folium, shaped like a guitar, a musical instrument 

 so called. 



pANicuLA, a panicle, or loose spike of grass. 

 Papilionaceus, butterfly -shaped jloiver, as in the class Diadelphia 

 of Linnceus. 



Papiltonace/e, an order of plants in the Fragmenta Methodi Na- 

 turalis of Linn<ew. 



