Ovoid; egg-shaped; terete, and swelling near the base; i.e. having the outline of an entire egg.
Ovoid-oblong ; the ovoid form lengthened out.
Ors les. The rudiments of future seeds, contained in the ovary, or young fruit.
Palate. The prominence in the lower lip of a personate corolla.
Pala (plural pale e). a term applied to the inner, or immediate floral ciivering of the grasses. (Corolla of Linn.) (Sec Glumes.) Paleaceous; chaffy; of a chaffy texture, or furniehed with chaff-like scales.
Palmate; hand-shaped; deeply divided, with the seg ments nearly equal and spreading like fingers on the open hand.
Palmately veined, or cleft; having the veins or segments divergent. like the spreading fingers of an open hand. Pandurzform ; fiddle-shaped; oblong, with the aides con tracted, like a violin.
Panicle. A loose, irregular, compound raceme, in which the peduncles are unequally elongated, and variously and irregularly subdivided, as in oats, etc.
Pant& d, or panic e; disposed in the form of a psnicle. Pa oilionaceous corolla. Butterfly-shaped; when com plete, consisting of five petals, the upper one (mosily largest) called the vexillum or banner, the two lateral ones termed the she or wings, the two lower ones more or less cohering by their lower margins, and, from their form. denominated the keel.
Papillate, or papillose; having the surface covered with fleshy dots, or points, like minute teats.
Pappus. The crown of the fruit, being the segments, or free portion of an adherent calyx. in the composites, and some other plants, usually hairy-like orplumose, some times in the form of minute chaff or scales.
Parasite. A plant growing on, or deriving sustenance from, another plant; as dodder, mistletoe, etc. Parasitic; being, or relating to. a parasite.
Parenchyma. The soft, spongy, cellular tissue (often green) which forms the pith of stems, the pulp of leaves and young fruit, and fills the interstices of woody or vascular fibres.
Paries (plural, parietes). The outside wall, or incloaing shell. which circumscribes the cavity of a pericarp.
Parietal; affixed to, or belonging to, the parses or outer wall of the seed-cell of a pericarp.
Parietal placentae. When the placentae are borne upon the walls, instead of the axis, of the ovary or pericarp. Parted; divided deeply, almost to the base.
Partial; a term applied to constituent portions of a com pound whole.
Partition. (See Dissepiment.) Patelceforn y in the form of little pffitee or dishes. Pectinate; finely, regularly and deeply cleft, so as to re semble the teeth of a comb.
Peda'e leaf. Like a bird's foot; divided nearly to the petiole in narrow segments, with the lateral ones diverg ing.
Pedseel. A partial peduncle; the ultimate branch or division (next to the flower, or fruit) in a compound inflorescence.
_Pedicellate; having, or being supported on a pedicel. Peduncle; a simple flower stem; also the common foot stalk of a compound inflorescence.
Pedunculate; having a peduncle; not sessile.
Pella • d; transpareot; pervious to light.
Pellucid punctate; having punctures which permit light to pees through.
Peltate; like a shield; having the foot stalk affixed to the under surface, and not to the margin.
Pencil form; resembling a painter's pencil or little brush.
Pendulous; hanging down; attached at one end, and swinging loosely.
Pendulous ovules or seeds; when their direction is down wards.
Penieillate; tipped or tufted with hairs, like a painter's pencil.
_Penni-nerved leaf. Having the lateral nerves pinnately arranged. or feather-like. (See Feather-veined.) Pentagonal; having five angles or corners.
Pentagynous; having five piatils.
,Pentamerous; composed of five parte.
Pentandrous ; having five stamens.
Pentanetalow; having five petals.
Penultimate; next to the last; the one next to the ter minal one.
Pepo; an indehiecent, fleshy or internally pulpy fruit, nsnally composed of three carpels invested by the calyx tube, and with a firm rind, as the melon. etc. Percurrent; extending or running the whole way through. Perennial; living more than two years, and fur an indefi nite period.