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Operculate. Having such a prominent point to the ovary. 
Oval. Egg-shaped, attenuated equally at both ends. 
Ovate. Egg-shaped, the base broadest. 
Ovule. The future seed before it is fertilized, and in an early state of immaturity. 
Parietal. Forming a wall or side ; or belonging or adhering to a wall or side. 
Patent . Expanded wide. 
Peduncle. The foot-stalk which connects a flower with the scape, stalk, or 
branch ; simple, when it connects one ; compound, when it is branched, and 
each branch thereof connects one. 
Pentandrous. Having five stamens. 
Perianth. The foliaceous part A a flower which has no calyx, consisting of 
outer and inner segments, called sepals and petals, with or without a tube. 
Pericarp. That which contains the seed, and which was the germen or ovary 
before the decay of the perianth. 
Persistent. Continuing after the usual period of decay. 
Petaline. That which has relation to a petal ; petaline filament, that which is 
inserted in or below a petal. 
Petaloid. Having the appearance of petals. 
Petals. The segments of a coroll ; the inner segments of a perianth. 
Petiole. The footstalk which connects a leaf with a stalk, branch, or root. 
Plicate. Plaited, having folds. 
Pollen. The small dust-like particles, which issue from the anther, and by con- 
tact with the stigma effect the fertilization of the ovules. 
Porandrous. Discharging the pollen through a pore or partial aperture in the 
anther. 
Recurved. Bent back, or upwards. 
Repand. Having the margin bent down backwards. 
Resupinate. Properly lying on its back, or thrown back : but used by botanists 
in a contrary sense to signify reversed, when, by the twisting of the foot- 
stalk, the back of a leaf is turned upwards, or the lowest part of a flower is 
uppermost. 
Rosulaceous. Having the leaves crowded round the head of a stalk, in the like- 
ness of a rose, diminishing in length towards the centre. 
Rosule. A rosulaceous or rose-like head of leaves, having the form of an umbel. 
Sagittate. Having the form of an arrow-head. 
Scape. A succulent inarticulate flower- stem. 
Scapaceous. Having a scape. 
Secundifolius. Secundus (second) is used by botanists to express the bending 
of all the leaves on a stalk one way. That, which is second, follows ; and I 
suppose the leaves are considered by their similar inclination to follow or 
second each other. 
Segment. One of the divisions into which the limb of a flower is cleft. 
Sepals. The segments of a calyx ; the outer segments of the limb of a perianth 
standing in lieu of a calyx. 
Sepaline. That which has relation to a sepal. Sepaline filament, that which is 
inserted in or below a sepal. 
Serrate. Edged like a saw. 
Sessile. Seated on the scape, stalk, or branch, without the support of a footstalk. 
Siliqua. A long capsule with two valves, and two parietal placentae, to which 
the ovules are attached. Silicula is precisely the same thing shorter and 
broader. 
Spadiceous. Having a spadix. 
Spadix. Originally the inflorescence of a palm, which has apetaloid flowers close 
