_Attenuate._ Slenderly tapering, becoming very narrow.

_Auricle._ An ear-shaped appendage.

_Auriculate._ Furnished with auricles.

_Awl-shaped._ Narrowed upward from the base to a slender or rigid

point.

_Awn._ A bristle-shaped appendage.

_Axil._ The angle formed by a leaf or branch with the stem.

_Axile._ Situated in the axis.

_Axillary._ Situated in an axil.

_Axis._ The central line of any organ or support of a group of organs; a

stem, etc.

_Baccate._ Berry like; pulpy throughout.

_Barbed._ Furnished with rigid points or short bristles, usually

reflexed like the barb of a fish-hook.

_Barbellate._ Finely barbed.

_Barbulate._ Finely bearded.

_Basal, Basilar._ At or pertaining to the base.

_Basifixed._ Attached by the base.

_Beaked._ Ending in a beak or prolonged tip.

_Bearded._ Bearing a long awn, or furnished with long or stiff hairs.

_Berry._ A fruit the whole pericarp of which is fleshy or pulpy.

_Bi-_ or _Bis-_. A Latin prefix signifying two, twice, or doubly.

_Bidentate._ Having two teeth.

_Biennial._ Of two years' duration.

_Bifid._ Two-cleft.

_Bilabiate._ Two-lipped.

_Bilocellate._ Having two secondary cells.

_Bilocular._ Two-celled.

_Bisexual._ Having both stamens and pistils.

_Bladdery._ Thin and inflated.

_Blade._ The limb or expanded portion of a leaf, etc.

_Bract._ A more or less modified leaf subtending a flower or belonging

to an inflorescence, or sometimes cauline.

_Bracteate._ Having bracts.

_Bracteolate._ Having bractlets.

_Bracteose._ With numerous or conspicuous bracts.

_Bractlet._ A secondary bract, as one upon the pedicel of a flower.

_Bristle._ A stiff hair or any similar outgrowth.

_Bud._ The rudimentary state of a stem or branch; an unexpanded flower.

_Bulb._ A subterranean leaf-bud with fleshy scales or coats.

_Bulbiferous._ Bearing bulbs.

_Bulblet._ A small bulb, especially one borne upon the stem.

_Bulbous._ Having the character of a bulb.

_Caducous._ Falling off very early.

_Calcarate._ Produced into or having a spur.

_Callus._ A hard protuberance or callosity.

_Calyculate._ Having bracts around the calyx imitating an outer calyx.

_Calyptra._ The membranous hood or covering of the capsule in Hepaticae

and Mosses.

_Calyx._ The outer perianth of the flower.

_Campanulate._ Bell-shaped; cup-shaped with a broad base.

_Campylospermous._ Having seeds with longitudinally involute margins, as

in some Umbelliferae.

_Campylotropous_ (ovule or seed). So curved as to bring the apex and

base nearly together.

_Canaliculate._ Longitudinally channelled.

_Canescent._ Hoary with gray pubescence.

_Capitate._ Shaped like a head; collected into a head or dense cluster.

_Capitellate._ Collected into a small head.

_Capsular._ Belonging to or of the nature of a capsule.

_Capsule._ A dry dehiscent fruit composed of more than one carpel; the

spore-case of Hepaticae, etc.

_Capsuliferous._ Capsule-bearing.

_Carinate._ Having a keel or a projecting longitudinal medial line on

the lower surface.

_Carpel._ A simple pistil, or one member of a compound pistil.

_Cartilaginous._ Of the texture of cartilage; firm and tough.

_Caruncle._ An excrescence or appendage at or about the hilum of a seed.

_Carunculate._ Having a caruncle.

_Caryopsis._ A grain, as of grasses; a seed-like fruit with a thin

pericarp adnate to the contained seed.

_Castaneous._ Of a chestnut color; brown.

_Catkin._ An ament.

_Caudate._ Having a slender tail-like appendage.

_Caudex._ The persistent base of an otherwise annual herbaceous stem.

_Caulescent._ Having a manifest stem.

_Cauline._ Belonging to the stem.

_Cavernous._ Hollow; full of air-cavities.

_Cell._ One of the minute vesicles, of very various forms, of which

plants are formed. Any structure containing a cavity, as the cells of

an anther, ovary, etc.

_Cellular_ (tissue). Composed of short transparent thin-walled cells, in

distinction from fibrous or vascular.

_Cespitose._ Growing in tufts; forming mats or turf.

_Chaff._ A small thin scale or bract, becoming dry and membranous.

_Chaffy._ Having or resembling chaff.

_Channelled._ Deeply grooved longitudinally, like a gutter.

_Chartaceous._ Having the texture of writing-paper.

_Chlorophyll._ The green grains within the cells of plants.

_Chlorophyllose._ Containing chlorophyll.

_Ciliate._ Marginally fringed with hairs.

_Ciliolate._ Minutely ciliate.

_Cinereous._ Ash-color.

_Circinate._ Coiled from the top downward, as the young frond of a fern.

_Circumscissile._ Dehiscing by a regular transverse circular line of

division.

_Clavate._ Club-shaped; gradually thickened upward.

_Cleistogamous._ Fertilized in the bud, without the opening of the

flower.

_Cleft._ Cut about to the middle.

_Climbing._ Ascending by laying hold of surrounding objects for support.

_Cluster._ Any assemblage of flowers on a plant.

_Clustered._ Collected in a bunch of any sort.

_Coalescence._ The union of parts or organs of the same kind.

_Coccus_ (pl. _Cocci_). One of the parts into which a lobed fruit with

1-seeded cells splits.

_Cochleate._ Spiral, like a snail-shell.

_Cohesion._ The union of one organ with another.

_Columella._ The persistent axis of some capsules, spore-cases, etc.

_Columnar._ Like a column.

_Commissure._ The surface by which one carpel joins another, as in the

Umbelliferae.

_Comose._ Furnished with a _coma_ or tuft of hairs.

_Complicate._ Folded upon itself.

_Compound._ Composed of 2 or more similar parts united into one whole.

_Compound leaf_, one divided into separate leaflets.

_Compressed._ Flattened laterally.

_Conceptacle._ In some Cryptogams a case or receptacle containing the

organs of fructification.

_Conduplicate._ Folded together lengthwise.

_Confluent._ Running into each other; blended into one.

_Coniferous._ Cone-bearing.

_Connate._ United congenitally.

_Connective._ The portion of a stamen which connects the two cells of

the anther.

_Connivent._ Coming into contact; converging.

_Conoidal._ Nearly conical.

_Convergent._ Approaching each other.

_Convolute._ Rolled up longitudinally.

_Cordate._ Heart-shaped with the point upward.

_Coriaceous._ Leathery in texture.

_Corm._ The enlarged fleshy base of a stem, bulb-like but solid.

_Corolla._ The inner perianth, of distinct or connate petals.

_Coroniform._ Shaped like a crown.

_Corrugate._ Wrinkled or in folds.

_Corymb._ A flat-topped or convex open flower-cluster, in the stricter

use of the word equivalent to a contracted raceme and progressing in its

flowering from the margin inward.

_Corymbose._ In corymbs, or corymb-like.

_Cosmopolite._ Found in most parts of the globe (of plants).

_Costa._ A rib; a midrib or mid-nerve.

_Costate._ Ribbed; having one or more longitudinal ribs or nerves.

_Cotyledons._ The foliar portion or first leaves (one, two, or more) of

the embryo as found in the seed.

_Crateriform._ In the shape of a saucer or cup, hemispherical or more

shallow.

_Creeping._ Running along or under the ground and rooting.

_Crenate._ Dentate with the teeth much rounded.

_Crenulate._ Finely crenate.

_Crested, Cristate._ Bearing an elevated appendage resembling a crest.

_Crown._ An inner appendage to a petal, or to the throat of a corolla.

_Cruciate._ Cross-shaped.

_Crustaceous._ Of hard and brittle texture.

_Cucullate._ Hooded or hood-shaped; cowled.

_Culm._ The peculiar stem of sedges and grasses.

_Cuneate._ Wedge-shaped; triangular with the acute angle downward.

_Cuspidate._ Tipped with a _cusp_, or sharp and rigid point.

_Cylindraceous._ Somewhat or nearly cylindrical.

_Cyme._ A usually broad and flattish determinate inflorescence, i.e.

with its central or terminal flowers blooming earliest.

_Cymose._ Bearing cymes or cyme-like.

_Deciduous._ Not persistent; not evergreen.

_Decompound._ More than once compound or divided.

_Decumbent._ Reclining, but with the summit ascending.

_Decurrent_ (leaf). Extending down the stem below the insertion.

_Decurved._ Curved downward.

_Decussate._ Alternating in pairs at right angles, or in threes.

_Definite._ Of a constant number, not exceeding twenty.

_Deflexed._ Bent or turned abruptly downward.

_Dehiscent._ Opening regularly by valves, slits, etc., as a capsule or

anther.

_Deltoid._ Shaped like the Greek letter [Greek: D].

_Dentate._ Toothed, usually with the teeth directed outward.

_Denticulate._ Minutely dentate.

_Depressed._ Somewhat flattened from above.

_Di-, Dis-._ A Greek prefix signifying two or twice.

_Diadelphous_ (stamens). Combined in two sets.

_Diandrous._ Having two stamens.

_Dicarpellary._ Composed of two carpels.

_Dichotomous._ Forking regularly by pairs.

_Dicotyledonous._ Having two cotyledons.

_Didymous._ Twin; found in pairs.

_Didynamous_ (stamens). In two pairs of unequal length.

_Diffuse._ Widely or loosely spreading.

_Digitate._ Compound, with the members borne in a whorl at the apex of

the support.

_Dimerous_ (flower). Having all the parts in twos.

_Dimidiate._ In halves, as if one half were wanting.

_Dimorphous._ Occurring in two forms.

_Dioecious._ Unisexual, with the two kinds of flowers on separate

plants.

_Discoid._ Resembling a disk. _Discoid head_, in Compositae, one without

ray-flowers.

_Disk._ A development of the receptacle at or around the base of the

pistil. In Compositae, the tubular flowers of the head as distinct from

the ray.

_Dissected._ Cut or divided into numerous segments.

_Dissepiment._ A partition in an ovary or fruit.

_Distichous._ In two vertical ranks.

_Distinct._ Separate; not united, evident.

_Divaricate._ Widely divergent.

_Divergent._ Inclined away from each other.

_Divided._ Lobed to the base.

_Dorsal._ Upon or relating to the back or outer surface of an organ.

_Drupaceous._ Resembling or of the nature of a drupe.

_Drupe._ A fleshy or pulpy fruit with the inner portion of the pericarp

(1-celled and 1-seeded, or sometimes several-celled) hard or stony.

_Drupelet._ A diminutive drupe.

_E-_ or _Ex-_. A Latin prefix having often a privative signification, as

_ebracteate_, without bracts.

_Echinate._ Beset with prickles.

_Effuse._ Very loosely spreading.

_Elater._ A usually spirally marked thread found in the capsules of most

Hepaticae.

_Ellipsoidal._ Nearly elliptical; of solids, elliptical in outline.

_Elliptical._ In the form of an ellipse, oval.

_Emarginate._ Having a shallow notch at the extremity.

_Embryo._ The rudimentary plantlet within the seed.

_Endocarp._ The inner layer of a pericarp.

_Endogenous._ Growing throughout the substance of the stem, instead of

by superficial layers.

_Entire._ Without toothing or division.

_Ephemeral._ Lasting only for one day.

_Epidermis._ The cuticle or thin membrane covering the outer surface.

_Epigynous._ Growing on the summit of the ovary, or apparently so.

_Epiphyte._ A plant growing attached to another plant, but not

parasitic; an air-plant.

_Eporose._ Without pores.

_Equitant._ Astride, used of conduplicate leaves which enfold each other

in two ranks, as in Iris.

_Erect._ Vertical; upright as respects the plane of the base.

_Erose._ As if gnawed.

_Exalbuminous._ Without albumen.

_Excurrent._ Running out, as a nerve of a leaf projecting beyond the

margin.

_Exfoliating._ Cleaving off in thin layers.

_Exogenous._ Growing by annular layers near the surface; belonging to

the Exogens.

_Exserted._ Projecting beyond an envelope, as stamens from a corolla.

_Extrorse._ Facing outward.

_Falcate._ Scythe-shaped, curved and flat, tapering gradually.

_Farinaceous._ Containing starch, starch-like.

_Farinose._ Covered with a meal-like powder.

_Fascicle._ A close bundle or cluster.

_Fastigiate_ (branches). Erect and near together.

_Ferruginous._ Rust-color.

_Fertile._ Capable of producing fruit, or productive, as a flower having

a pistil, or an anther with pollen.

_Fibrillose._ Furnished or abounding with fine fibres.

_Fibrous._ Composed of or resembling fibres. _Fibrous tissue_, a tissue

formed of elongated thick-walled cells.

_Fibro-vascular._ Composed of woody fibres and ducts.

_Filament._ The part of a stamen which supports the anther; any

thread-like body.

_Filamentous._ Composed of threads.

_Filiferous._ Thread-bearing.

_Filiform._ Thread-shaped; long, slender, and terete.

_Fimbriate._ Fringed.

_Fimbrillate._ Having a minute fringe.

_Fingered._ Digitate.

_Fistular._ Hollow and cylindrical.

_Flaccid._ Without rigidity, lax and weak.

_Fleshy._ Succulent; juicy; of the consistence of flesh.

_Flexuous._ Zigzag; bending alternately in opposite directions.

_Floccose._ Clothed with locks of soft hair or wool.

_Foliaceous._ Leaf-like in texture or appearance.

_foliate._ Having leaves.

_-foliolate._ Having leaflets.

_Follicle._ A fruit consisting of a single carpel, dehiscing by the

ventral suture.

_Follicular._ Like a follicle.

_Forked._ Divided into nearly equal branches.

_Fornicate._ Arched over, as the corona of some Borraginaceae, closing

the throat.

_Free._ Not adnate to other organs.

_Friable._ Easily crumbled.

_Frond._ The leaf of Ferns and some other Cryptogams; also in some

Phaenogams, as in Lemnaceae, where it serves for stem as well as foliage.

_Fruit._ The seed-bearing product of a plant, simple, compound, or

aggregated, of whatever form.

_Fugacious._ Falling or fading very early.

_Funicle._ The free stalk of an ovule or seed.

_Fuscous._ Grayish-brown.

_Fusiform._ Spindle-shaped; swollen in the middle and narrowing toward

each end.

_Galea._ A hooded or helmet-shaped portion of a perianth, as the upper

sepal of Aconitum, and the upper lip of some bilabiate corollas.

_Galeate._ Helmet-shaped; having a galea.

_Gamopetalous._ Having the petals of the corolla more or less united.

_Gamophyllous._ Composed of coalescent leaves, sepals, or petals.

_Gemma._ A bud or body analogous to a bud by which a plant propagates

itself.

_Gemmiparous._ Producing gemmae.

_Geniculate._ Bent abruptly, like a knee.

_Gibbous._ Protuberant or swollen on one side.

_Glabrate._ Somewhat glabrous, or becoming glabrous.

_Glabrous._ Smooth; not rough, pubescent, or hairy.

_Gland._ A secreting surface or structure; any protuberance or appendage

having the appearance of such an organ.

_Glandular._ Bearing glands or of the nature of a gland.

_Glaucous._ Covered or whitened with a bloom.

_Globose, Globular._ Spherical or nearly so.

_Glochidiate._ Barbed at the tip.

_Glomerate._ Compactly clustered.

_Glumaceous._ Furnished with or resembling glumes.

_Glume._ One of the chaffy bracts of the inflorescence of Grasses.

_Granular._ Composed of small grains.

_Gregarious._ Growing in groups or clusters.

_Gymnospermous._ Bearing naked seeds, without an ovary.

_Gynandrous._ Having the stamens borne upon the pistil, as in

Orchidaceae.

_Gynobase._ An enlargement or prolongation of the receptacle bearing the

ovary.

_Habit._ The general appearance of a plant.

_Halberd-shaped._ The same as Hastate.

_Hastate._ Like an arrow-head, but with the basal lobes pointing outward

nearly at right angles.

_Head._ A dense cluster of sessile or nearly sessile flowers on a very

short axis or receptacle.

_Heart-shaped._ Ovate with a sinus at base.

_Herb._ A plant with no persistent woody stem above ground.

_Herbaceous._ Having the characters of an herb; leaf-like in color and

texture.

_Heterocarpous._ Producing more than one kind of fruit.

_Heterogamous._ Bearing two kinds of flowers.

_Hilum._ The scar or point of attachment of the seed.

_Hirsute._ Pubescent with rather coarse or stiff hairs.

_Hispid._ Beset with rigid or bristly hairs or with bristles.

_Hispidulous._ Minutely hispid.

_Hoary._ Grayish-white with a fine close pubescence.

_Homogamous._ Bearing but one kind of flowers.

_Hooded._ Shaped like a hood or cowl.

_Hyaline._ Transparent or translucent.

_Hybrid._ A cross-breed of two species.

_Hypogynous._ Situated on the receptacle beneath the ovary and free from

it and from the calyx; having the petals and stamens so situated.

_Imbricate._ Overlapping, either vertically or spirally, where the lower

piece covers the base of the next higher, or laterally, as in the

aestivation of a calyx or corolla, where at least one piece must be

wholly external and one internal.

_Immersed._ Growing wholly under water; wholly covered by the involucral

leaves, as sometimes the capsule in Hepaticae.

_Incised._ Cut sharply and irregularly, more or less deeply.

_Included._ Not at all protruded from the surrounding envelope.

_Incubous_ (leaf). Having the tip or upper margin overlapping the lower

margin of the leaf above.

_Incumbent_ (cotyledons). Lying with the back of one against the

radicle.

_Indefinite_ (stamens). Inconstant in number or very numerous.

_Indehiscent._ Not opening by valves, etc.; remaining persistently

closed.

_Indigenous._ Native and original to the country.

_Indurated._ Hardened.

_Indusium._ The proper (often shield-shaped) covering of the sorus or

fruit-dot in Ferns.

_Inequilateral._ Unequal-sided.

_Inferior._ Lower or below; outer or anterior. _Inferior ovary_, one

that is adnate to the calyx.

_Inflated._ Bladdery.

_Inflorescence._ The flowering part of a plant, and especially the mode

of its arrangement.

_Infra-_. In composition, below; as _infra-axillary_, below the axil.

_Innovation._ An offshoot from the stem.

_Inserted._ Attached to or growing out of.

_Inter-_ or _intra-_. In composition, between.

_Interfoliaceous._ Between the leaves of a pair as the stipules of many

Rubiaceae.

_Internode._ The portion of a stem between two nodes.

_Intramarginal._ Within and near the margin.

_Introrse._ Turned inward or toward the axis.

_Involucel._ A secondary involucre, as that of an umbellet in

Umbelliferae.

_Involucellate._ Having an involucel.

_Involucral._ Belonging to an involucre.

_Involucrate._ Having an involucre.

_Involucre._ A circle or collection of bracts surrounding a flower

cluster or head, or a single flower.

_Involute._ Rolled inward.

_Irregular_ (flower). Showing inequality in the size, form, or union of

its similar parts.

_Julaceous._ Resembling a catkin in appearance.

_Keel._ A central dorsal ridge, like the keel of a boat; the two

anterior united petals of a papilionaceous flower.

_Kidney-shaped._ Crescentic with the ends broad and rounded; reniform.

_Labiate._ Lipped; belonging to the Labiatae.

_Lacerate._ Irregularly cleft as if torn.

_Laciniate._ Slashed; cut into narrow pointed lobes.

_Lamella._ A thin flat plate or laterally flattened ridge.

_Lanceolate._ Shaped like a lance-head, broadest above the base and

narrowed to the apex.

_Lateral._ Belonging to or borne on the side.

_Lax._ Loose and slender.

_Leaflet._ A single division of a compound leaf.

_Legume._ The fruit of the Leguminosae, formed of a simple pistil and

usually dehiscent by both sutures.

_Leguminous._ Pertaining to a legume or to the Leguminosae.

_Lenticular._ Lentil-shaped; of the shape of a double-convex lens.

_Lepidote._ Beset with small scurfy scales.

_Ligulate._ Furnished with a ligule.

_Ligule._ A strap-shaped corolla, as in the ray-flowers of Compositae; a

thin scarious projection from the summit of the sheath in Grasses.

_Liliaceous._ Lily-like; belonging to the Liliaceae.

_Limb._ The expanded portion of a gamopetalous corolla, above the

throat; the expanded portion of any petal, or of a leaf.

_Linear._ Long and narrow, with parallel margins.

_Lip._ Each of the upper and lower divisions of a bilabiate corolla or

calyx; the peculiar upper petal in Orchids.

_Lobe._ Any segment of an organ, especially if rounded.

_Lobed._ Divided into or bearing lobes.

_-locular._ In composition, having cells.

_Loculicidal._ Dehiscent into the cavity of a cell through the dorsal

suture.

_Lunate._ Of the shape of a half-moon or crescent.

_Lunulate._ Diminutive of Lunate.

_Lyrate._ Pinnatifid with a large and rounded terminal lobe, and the

lower lobes small.

_Macrospore._ The larger kind of spore in Selaginellaceae, etc.

_Marcescent._ Withering but persistent.

_Marginal._ Along or near the edge.

_Marginate._ Furnished with a border peculiar in texture or appearance.

_Mealy._ Farinaceous.

_Membranaceous, Membranous._ Thin and rather soft and more or less

translucent.

_Meniscoid._ Concavo-convex.

_Mericarp._ One of the achene-like carpels of Umbelliferae.

_-merous._ In composition, having parts, as 2-merous, having two parts

of each kind.

_Micropyle._ The point upon the seed at which was the orifice of the

ovule.

_Microspore._ The smaller kind of spore in Selaginellaceae, etc.

_Midrib._ The central or main rib of a leaf.

_Mitriform._ Shaped like a mitre or cap.

_Monadelphous_ (stamens). United by their filaments into a tube or

column.

_Moniliform._ Resembling a string of beads; cylindrical with

contractions at intervals.

_Monocotyledonous._ Having but one cotyledon.

_Monoecious._ With stamens and pistils in separate flowers on the same

plant.

_Mucilaginous._ Slimy; containing mucilage.

_Mucro._ A short and small abrupt tip.

_Mucronate._ Tipped with a mucro.

_Multifid._ Cleft into many lobes or segments.

_Muricate._ Rough with short hard points.

_Muriculate._ Very finely muricate.

_Naked._ Bare; without the usual covering or appendages.

_Nectary._ Any place or organ where nectar is secreted.

_Nectariferous._ Producing nectar.

_Nerve._ A simple or unbranched vein or slender rib.

_Node._ The place upon a stem which normally bears a leaf or whorl of

leaves.

_Nodose._ Knotty or knobby.

_Nucleus._ The germ-cell of the ovule, which by fertilization becomes

the seed; the kernel of a seed.

_Numerous._ Indefinite in number.

_Nut._ A hard indehiscent 1-celled and 1-seeded fruit, though usually

resulting from a compound ovary.

_Nutlet._ A diminutive nut.

_Ob-_. A Latin prefix, usually carrying the idea of inversion.

_Obcompressed._ Compressed dorso-ventrally instead of laterally.

_Obconically._ Inversely conical, having the attachment at the apex.

_Obcordate._ Inverted heart-shaped.

_Oblanceolate._ Lanceolate with the broadest part toward the apex.

_Oblique._ Unequal-sided or slanting.

_Oblong._ Considerably longer than broad and with nearly parallel sides.

_Obovate._ Inverted ovate.

_Obovoid._ Having the form of an inverted egg.

_Obsolete._ Not evident; rudimentary.

_Obtuse._ Blunt or rounded at the end.

_Ocrea._ A leggin-shaped or tubular stipule.

_Ocreate._ Having sheathing stipules.

_Ochroleucous._ Yellowish-white.

_Officinal._ Of the shops; used in medicine or the arts.

_Oospore._ The fertilized nucleus or germ-cell of the archegonium in

Cryptogams, from which the new plant is directly developed.

_Opaque._ Dull; not smooth and shining.

_Operculate._ Furnished with a lid.

_Operculum._ A lid; the upper portion of a circumscissile capsule.

_Orbicular._ Circular.

_Orthotropous_ (ovule or seed). Erect, with the orifice or micropyle at

the apex.

_Oval._, Broadly elliptical.

_Ovary._ The part of the pistil that contains the ovules.

_Ovate._ Egg-shaped; having an outline like that of an egg, with the

broader end downward.

_Ovoid._ A solid with an oval outline.

_Ovule._ The body which after fertilization becomes the seed.

_Ovuliferous._ Bearing ovules.

_Palate._ A rounded projection of the lower lip of a personate corolla,

closing the throat.

_Paleaceous._ Chaffy.

_Palet._ The upper thin chaffy or hyaline bract which with the glume

encloses the flower in Grasses.

_Palmate_ (leaf). Radiately lobed or divided.

_Palmately._ In a palmate manner.

_Panicle._ A loose irregularly compound inflorescence with pedicellate

flowers.

_Panicled, Paniculate._ Borne in a panicle; resembling a panicle.

_Papilionaceous_ (corolla). Having a standard, wings, and keel, as in

the peculiar corolla of many Leguminosae.

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