petiverIa

[Named by Linnæus after J. Petiver, F. R. S., a London apothecary.] Botany : The typical genus of the Petiveriacee (q. v.). Known species four, from tropical America. In Brazil Petiveria all i ace a , the Guinea-weed, is put into warm baths to be used in paralysis. pět-i-ver-1-ā-çëæ, s. pl. [Modern Latin pet i ver i(a); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -aceæ.] 3084 of dusky plumage, nocturnal in habit, widely dis- tributed, but most abundant in the southern hem- i sphere. They are considered by sailors as the harbingers of stormy weather, in which they seem to delight. Many of them nidificate in holes, and the majority lay but usually white. Some apparently come to land only for nidification, but nearly all are liable to be driven on shore by storms. Est relata hesitata , the Capped Petrel, petrocincla I. Literally : A. Transitive : I. Lit .: To convert or change into stone or stony whose habitat is the West Indian Islands, has been they may be reconstructed to-day as they were ages met with in Hungary. Pro cellar i a ( Thala idroma ) before man appeared on the earth. But it is only pelagic a is Mother Carey's Chicken, or the Storm the bones that are in this way kept; never the Petrel; Cymochorea leucorrhoa is the Fork-tailed, flesh, because water can not percolate through it. or Leach's Petrel; and Oceanites oceanic us is Wil- In the same way whole forests of trees in the son's Petrel. In this work the most important spe- cies are described under their popular names. pet-rel (2), 8. [PEYTREL.]