Polygynous; when the pistils are numerous or Indefinite. Polymorphous; variable, assuming, or apt to assume, many different forms.
Potypetalous; having many distinct petals, or at least more than one.
Po'yeepalous; having many distinct sepals, or more than one.
Pome. An apple; a fleshy fruit formed of several cartil aginous or bony carpels, imbedded in pulp and invested by the tube of the adherent calyx.
Pores; small holes, or whaler openings.
Porous ; full of holes, cells, or tubular openingg. Promorse ; end-bitten ; ending blunt, as if bitten off. Precocious flowers; appearing before the leaves.
Prickle. A sharp process arising from the bark only, and not originating in the wood.
Primary; first in a series in order of time, or in impor tance, opposed to secondary.
Primordial; first in order; usually applied to the first genuine leaves, or those which are next a bove the cotyle don's r seminel leaves.
Prismatic; like a prism; having several angles and inter mediate flat faces.
Process. A protuberance, eminence, or projecting part. Procumbent; lying on the ground without putting forth roots.
Produced; extended, or lengthened out.
Proliferous' producing its like in an unusual way, as lateral bulbs ; or putting• forth a young and unusual accessory growth, from the centre of an umbel, flower, etc.
Prostrate; lying flat, or close on the ground.
Pruinose; covered with a glaucous mealiness, like a plum.
Pseudo pinnate; falsely or imperfectly pinnate ; the leaflets (or rather segments) not articulated at base. (See Pia natisect Puberulent; covered with a minute, short and fine pu bescence.
Pubescence.. A general term for the hairy covering of plants.
Pubescent; clothed with hairs, especially with short weak hairs.
Pulp. A soft, fleshy or juicy mass.
Pulverulent; dusty; composed of, or covered with a fine powder.
Punctate; appearing as if pricked full of small boles, or covered with indented points.
Puncliculate; having very minute punctures, or indented points.
Pungent; sharp-pointed, prickly at apex; also acrid. Pyramidal; tapering upwards; usually applied to four sided solids which diminish to the apex.
Pyri form shaped like a pear ; largest at-the upper end.
Quadrangular; four-angled.
Quadrifarious; in four rows or directions; facing or pointing four ways.
Quadrifid; four-cleft.
Quaternate; four together ; arranged in tours.
Quina e; five together; arranged in fives.
Race of plants. A fixed or peculiar form or modification, produced, by the crossing or blending of distinct varie ties ; or sometimes, perhaps, accidental forma rendered permanent by culture or other influences.
Raceme. A mode of flowering, in which the common peduncle is elongated, with the flowers on short lateral simple pedicels.
Racemose; having the flowers in racemes.
Rachla. or rliaelfis. The common peduncles, or elongated receptacle, on which florets are collected in a spike; also the midrib of a pinnatisect frond.
Radiate; having rays (a. e. spreading ligulate florets) at the circumference; as the heads of many Composite;. Radiate-veined; where the veins of a leaf diverge from a common centre, or point, at the summit of the petiole.. Radiatiform• a term applied to heads of compound flowers in which all the florets are ligulate and directed towards the circumference.
Bodied; belonging to, or growing immediately from, the ro Radicating ; Bending out roots, or striking root at the nodes.
Radicle. A little root ; the slender fibrous branch of a root. .Rameal; pertaining or belonging to the branches. Ramification. The branching or division of an organ into se veral parts.
Ramose; branching.
Rank. A row, or arranr'ment in a line.
Raphe. The line, or hole ridge on one side of anat ropous (i. e. inverted) ovules and seeds, formed by the adhesion of a portion-of the funiculus.
Eatoon (Span. retono). A sprout from the root of a plaut which has been cut off (chiefly used in reference to th sugar-cane.
Rays. The spreading ligulate florets round the disk of a compound flower; also the footstalks, and enlarged ma ginal flowers of an umbel.
Receptacle. The apex of the peduncle (much dilated In the. Composit,x,) on which the parts of a flower (or entire florets) are inserted; the seat of the fruit, or of seeds and their equivalents.