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Petiolate. Furnished with footstalks. 
Petiole. The footstalk or uniting medium of either a flower or 
leaf to its parent stem. 
Pileus. The head or cap of a mushroom. 
Piliferous. Furnished with soft hairs. 
Filiform. Hair-shaped. 
Pilose. Hairy; covered with small, downy hairs . 
Pinnae. The divisions or lobes of a pinnate leaf. 
Pinnate. Applied to leaves that are composed of several smaller 
leaves arranged on a central rib or footstalk. 
Pinnatifid. Leaves are so called when they are divided into 
nearly equal lobes, that are cut to within a short distance 
of the midrib. 
Pistil, Pistillum. The female organ, situated in the centre of 
a flower, usually a columnar body, composed of three parts 
—the ovarium or undeveloped seed-vessel, the style or pillar 
which supports the stigma (though sometimes absent), and 
connects the latter with the ovarium. 
Plicate. Capable of being folded lengthwise, like a fan; 
plaited. 
Plumose. Resembling a feather. 
Plumula. The embryo leaves, between the cotydelons of a 
seed. 
Plurilocular. Having many cells. 
Polygamous. Applied to plants whose flowers are occasionally 
male, female, or hermaphrodite. 
Pomaceous. Bearing fruit of the nature of an apple. 
Porrect. Extended forward. 
Proliferous. Applied to plants that have a natural tendency 
to increase otherwise than by seed. 
CALENDAR OF KITCHEN GARDEN OPERATIONS 
FOR JUNE. 
Make sowings of peas and beans every week or ten days at the 
farthest, in order to maintain a constant succession. In dry 
weather soak the drills well with water previous to depositing 
the seed in them, and cover them with the moist earth. French 
