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PHEASANT

Volume 3 · 43 words · 1771 Edition

in ornithology. See Phasianus.

PELLANDRIUM, in botany, a genus of the pentandra digynia clasps. The fruit is oval and smooth. There are two species, one of them, viz. the aquaticum, or water hemlock, is a native of Britain.

PHELYPÆA, in botany. See Lathyræa.