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GLOSSARY OP BOTANICAL TERMS. 
Panicula, a panicle or loose spike of grass. 
Papilionaeous, butterfly-shaped flower, as in the class diadelpliia of 
Linnaeus. 
Papilionacas, an order of plants in the fragmenta methodi naturalis of 
Linnaeus. 
Papilosum/o&on, a nipple, a leaf covered with dots or points like nipples. 
Pappas, down. 
Papillosum folium, a leaf whose surface is covered with pimples. 
I’arabnlicnm j'olium, a leaf in form of a parabola. 
Paralleluin dissipimentum, when the dissepiments are parallel to the sides 
of the periearpium. 
Parisitica planta, plants that grow only out of other plants, as the visemn. 
Partiale involucrum , when at the base of the partial umbel. 
Parvmn perumthium, a little flower cup, or comparatively small, opposed 
to magnum. 
Patens caulis, ramus, See. spreading stalks and branches. 
Pedtitnnt/oliiim, a species of compound leaf, whose divisions resemble the 
toes of a foot, as in helleborotis fee till a. 
Peduncular;* cirrhm, a tendril proceeding from the foot-stalk of a flower. 
I’edunculati flares, flowers growing on foot stalks. 
Pedencn’us, the foot stalk of a flower. 
Peltalum/ob'am, when the foot-stalk is inserted into the disk of the leaf, 
and not into its base. 
Penicilliformia stigmata, a stigma in form of a painter’s pencil. 
Pentagonus, caulis, a five-angled stalk. 
Pentagynia, five males, the fifth order of a class. 
Pentandria, five males, the fifth class in the sexual system of Linnaeus. 
Pentapetala corolla, a flower consisting of five petals. 
Pentaphyllus calyx, a calyx consisting of five leaves. 
Perenuis radix, a perennial root, continuing for many years. 
Perfectus ftos, flowers having petals, the perfect flowers of Ray, Tourne- 
fort, and other botanists. 
Pcrfoliatum folium, when the base of the leaf entirely surrounds the stem, 
or when the stalk grows through the centre of the leaf, as in crassula 
perfoliata. 
Perforata cotihjdones, to be pierced through a species of the monocotyle- 
dones exemplified in the germina ; also an order of plants in the frag- 
menta methodi naturalis of Ltattasus, 
Perianthimn, a kind of calyx, so called when contiguous to the fructification. 
Periearpium, a species of pod that contains the seed. 
Pericha'tiom, a modification in the rcccptaculum in the musci and algae. 
Perpendiculaiis, radix, a perpendicular, or downright root. 
Pcr.-onatas, masked, an order of plants in the fragmenta methodi naturalis 
of Linmeus. 
Pes, a foot. 
Petaliformia stigmata, a stigma, resembling the shape ot a petal, 
Pefalodes ,/Jos, a flower having petals. 
PetaSum, the cnrollaceons teguments of a flower. 
Petioloi is cirrhus, a tendril proceeding from the foot-stalk of a leaf. 
Petiolalum/olium, a leaf growing on a foot-stalk. 
Petiolus, a little foot-stalk. 
Pileus, a hat or bonnet, the orbicular expansion of a mushroom, which 
covers the fructification. 
Pili, hairs. 
Pinnatifidum/oltKm, (a winged leaf) applied to simple leaves whose laci- 
nia’ are transverse to the rachiae. 
Piperita', pepper, an order of plants in the fragmenta methodi naturalis of 
Linnaeus. 
Pistillum, the style, or female organ of generation, whose office is to receive 
and secrete the farina fecundans. 
Pixidatum folium, a kind of foliage, where oue leaf is let into another by 
a joint, as in equisetum. 
