PALMATE webbed, like the feet of some water birds ; Birds, fig. 8. 
Deeply divided into lobes like the lingers on the hand: plated, 
lig. 5 ; piato 4, fig- 22. i n - j. 
PAN jklLE FORM, shaped something like a fiddle or ancient guittarr 
PANUCLF ’ a^kbni of inlloresccnce where the flowers are scatered on 
* stalks vai ioiisly or irregularly divided : plate 7, fig. 4. 
PAPILIONACEO'US, applied to an irregular enrol, shaped something 
like a butterfly on the wing : plate 6, lig. 16- 
PAPILLOU.S, having the surface covered witn fleshy dots or pimples: 
plateA, fig. 54. 
PAPULOUS, pimply or blistered. 
PARABOLIC, having the longitudinal diameter exceeding the trans- 
verse one, and narrowing from the base into a half ovate, 
PASSERES, the sixth order of birds, or such as have a conic sharp- 
pointed bill and slender divided toes. 
PVrELL.E, soft orbicular raised moveable bodies at the base of tha 
thiohs in some iiisefts, as the ichneumon genus. 
PECORA the fifth order of the class mammalia, comprehending those 
which have no front-teeth in the upper jaw, and whose feet are 
hoofed and cloven. 
PECTINATE, cut into regular straight segments, like the teeth of 
a comb. 
Pienv rti' Jomlv cut into segments connected with the petiole on the 
Innm:side oidy, Uke a bird’s foot : plate 5, tig. 5. 
PEDICEL, a partial or lesser llower-stalk : plate 7, fig. 2 ; a. 
PEDUNCLE, the stem supporting the flowers or fruit. 
PELTATE target-shaped. Having the stalk inserted in the disk of the 
leaf, and not in the edge : plated, tig. U ; A 
PENNACEOUS, feathered like the web ot a quill. 
PENTAGYNl A, having 5 styles. 
PENTANORIA, the fifth class of vegetables, comprising such herma- 
phrodite iilants as have 5 stamina : plate 1, lig- 5. 
PERFOLIATE, surrounding the stalk on every side, as if it passed 
PERIANTH the calyx of a flower when close to the other parts of 
fnifctificatioii ; plate 6, fig- 2. «• // a c n * 
PERICARP, the vessel containing the seed : plated, rig. 7. 
PJililS rOAl Ej the fringe or teeth surrounding the mouth of the capsule 
in mosses. 
PERSONATE, 
an irregular corol having 2 lips which are closed : 
PEt£^ oni' oi'Mie leaves of a corol when it has more than one : 
iilale 6, -B- -• 
PET A LO ID, resembling a petal. , , « , 
PETIOLE, the stalk supporting a leaf r jfiate 5, fa„. 3. , 
PETIOLULE, a partial petiole coiineaiiig the leafet of a compound 
leaf with the main petiole. , . , , , 
PHOSPHORESCENT, emitting bgbt m the dark. 
2F 
fig. 9. 
