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Placentatio, Cotyledons, of the seed. 



Planipetalus Flos, a flower with plain flat petals. 



Plants, plants, one of the seven families of vegetables, compre- 

 hending all which are not included in the other six tribes. 



Planum Folium, plain flat leaves. 



Plenus Ftos, a full or double flower. 



Plicatum Folium, a plaittd leaf. 



Plum at a Seta, a feathered hair or bristle. 



Plumosus Pappus, a kind of soft down. 



Plumula, the ascending scaly part of the corculum. 



Pollen, meal, the prolific powder contained in the anthera* 



Pollex, a thumb, the length of the first joint of the thumb, or a 

 Parisian inch. 



Polyadelphia, many brotherhoods, the eighteenth class in the 

 Sexual System. 



Polyandiua, many males, the thirteenth class in the Sexual Sy- 

 stem of Linn&us*. 

 Polycotyledones, many cotyledons. 



Polygamia, many marriages, the twenty-third class in the Sexual 

 System. 



Polygynia, many females, an order of some of the classes in the 



Sexual System. 

 Poly petal a Corolla, a flower consisting of many petals. 

 Polyphillum Involucrum, an involucrum of many leaves. 

 Polystachius Culmus, a stalk of grass having many spikes. 

 PoMACEiE, Pomum, an apple, an order of plants in the Fragments 



Method i Naturalis of Linnceus. 

 Pomum, an apple. 

 Pori, pores, 



Piuemorsa Radix, a bitten root, when it ends abruptly, as in 

 Scabiosa. 



Precise, an order of plants in the Fragmenta Methodi Natural is 



of Linnaeus. 

 Prism aticus Calyx, a triangular flower-cup. 

 Procumbens Caulis, lying on the ground. 



