GLOSSARY OF BOTANICAL TERMS. 
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Piacentatio cotyledons, of the seed. 
Planipetalnsjlo*, a flower with plain flat petals. 
Plumosus imppus, a kind of soft down. 
Plmnula, the ascending scaly part of the ccrculum. 
Pollen, meal, the prolific powder contained in the anther*. 
Pollex, a thumb, the length of the first joint of the thumb, or a Parisian 
inch. 
Po yadelphia, many brotherhoods, the eighteenth class in the sexual system. 
Polyandria, many males, the thirteenth class in the sexual system of Linnseus 
Polycotylidones, many totylcdous. 
Polyganda, many marriages, the twenty-third class in the sexual system. 
Polygvnia, many females, an order of some of the classes in the sexual 
system. 
Polypetala corolla, a flow'er consisting of many petals. 
Polyphylluin inca'ucntm, an involncrum of many loaves. 
Polystachius culmm, a stalk of grass having many spikes. 
Pomace* pomum, an apple, an order of plants in the fragmenta methodi 
naturalis of Linmcus. 
Pornum, an apple. 
Pori, pores. 
Praemorsa radix, a bitten root, when it ends abruptly, as in scabiosa. 
Precise, an order ol plants in the fragmenta methodi naturalis of Linnaeus. 
Prismatius calyx, triangular flower-cup. 
Procumbens cauiis , lying on the ground. 
Proliferous, flowers growing through, or out of one another, either from 
the centre or side. 
Prominnlnm dissipimentum, to jet out beyond the valves. 
Pronum discumfolii, leaves having their face downwards. 
Propago, a shoot, the seed of mosses. 
Proprimu intolucrum, an involncrum when at the base of an umbellated 
flower. 
Pseudo, a bastard. 
Pubes, down or hair, one of the seven kinds of fulcra. 
Polposum/ofi«i», a leaf having a pulpy or fleshy substance. 
Pulveratliin folium, a leaf pondered with a kind of dust like meal, as in 
primula farinosa. 
Punctatum/o/itnn, a leaf sprinkled with hollow dots or points. 
Putaminca?, like a shell, an order of plauts in the fragmenta methodi 
naturalis of i.iunaius. 
Quadrangnla folium, a quadrangular leaf, having four prominent angles in 
the circumspection of its disk. 
Quadrisitlum folium, a leaf divided into four parts. 
Quadrijugum folium, a leaf having four pair of fotioles. 
Quadriloimm folium, a leaf consisting of four lobes. 
Quadripartitinu folium, a leaf consisting of four divisions down to the base. 
Quatei na folia , when vet tieillate leaves come by fours, having four in each 
whorle. 
Quina folia, verticillate leaves coming by fives. 
Quinatum folium, when a digitate leaf has five folioles. 
Quiuquatigulare folium, a leaf having five prominent angles in the circum- 
scription of the disk. 
Quinqiiejugum/u/mm, when a pinnated leaf has five pair of folioles. 
Qninquelobum folium, a leaf having five lobes. 
Quinquefidiun/o/mtn, a leaf consisting of five divisions, with linear senses, 
and straight margins. ' 
Quinquepartium folium, consisting of five divisions down to the base. 
Racemus, a bunch of grapes, or currants, or any other buncii of berries 
that bears that resemblance. 
Rachis, the back bone, a species of reccptaculum, as in the panicum. 
Rachis, /«lu piunati, the middle rib of a winged leaf, to which the folioles 
are affixed. 
