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_Pedate._ Palmately divided or parted, with the lateral segments 2-cleft.

_Pedicel._ The support of a single flower.

_Pedicellate._ Borne on a pedicel.

_Peduncle._ A primary flower-stalk, supporting either a cl.u.s.ter or a solitary flower.

_Pedunculate._ Borne upon a peduncle.

_Peltate._ s.h.i.+eld-formed and attached to the support by the lower surface.

_Pendulous._ More or less hanging or declined. _Pendulous ovule_, one that hangs from the side of the cell.

_Perennial._ Lasting year after year.

_Perfect_ (flower). Having both pistil and stamens.

_Perfoliate_ (leaf). Having the stem apparently pa.s.sing through it.

_Perianth._ The floral envelope, consisting of the calyx and corolla (when present), whatever their form; in Hepaticae, the inner usually sac-like involucre of the archegonium.

_Pericarp._ The matured ovary.

_Perigynium._ The inflated sac which encloses the ovary in Carex.

_Perigynous._ Adnate to the perianth, and therefore around the ovary and not at its base.

_Persistent._ Long-continuous, as a calyx upon the fruit, leaves through winter, etc.

_Personate_ (corolla). Bil.a.b.i.ate, and the throat closed by a prominent palate.

_Petal._ A division of the corolla.

_Petaloid._ Colored and resembling a petal.

_Petiolate._ Having a petiole.

_Petiole._ The footstalk of a leaf.

_Phaenogamous._ Having flowers with stamens and pistils and producing seeds.

_Phyllodium._ A somewhat dilated petiole having the form of and serving as a leaf-blade.

_Pilose._ Hairy, especially with soft hairs.

_Pinna_ (pl. _Pinnae_). One of the primary divisions of a pinnate or compoundly pinnate frond or leaf.

_Pinnate_ (leaf). Compound, with the leaflets arranged on each side of a common petiole.

_Pinnatifid._ Pinnately cleft.