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To impregnate these, a bunch of male flowers is carefully inserted and fastened in the calyx.
THE DESERT WORLDARTHUR MANGINThese rubiace had no calyx; therefore the principle laid down on the blackboard was false.
BOUVARD AND PCUCHET, PART 2GUSTAVE FLAUBERTAlismace, distinguished by possessing barren and fertile flowers, with a three-leaved calyx and three coloured petals.
THE NEW GRESHAM ENCYCLOPEDIA. VOL. 1 PART 2VARIOUSThe calyx is composed of five sepals, the corolla of four or five lobes, and the stamens are attached to the corolla.
THE SEA SHOREWILLIAM S. FURNEAUXThe umbels are sessile or nearly so, the flowers have no calyx, and the fruit has five prominent ridges.
THE SEA SHOREWILLIAM S. FURNEAUXThe species under notice receives its name from the star-like arrangement of the long teeth of the hairy calyx.
THE SEA SHOREWILLIAM S. FURNEAUXFlowers small, unisexual, dicious (male and female flowers on separate plants), sometimes enclosed in calyx-like bracts.
THE SEA SHOREWILLIAM S. FURNEAUXThe sea-side variety (oxyptera) has smaller flowers than the normal form, and the wings of the calyx are narrower.
THE SEA SHOREWILLIAM S. FURNEAUXPerianth, per′i-anth, n. the floral envelope where the calyx and corolla are not easily distinguished.
CHAMBERS'S TWENTIETH CENTURY DICTIONARY (PART 3 OF 4: N-R)VARIOUSThe lower valve of the calyx turned to the rhachis is more than twice as small as the upper.
TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR OF NORTH AMERICA, 1832-1834, PART III (THE TEXT BEING CHAPTERS XXVIII-XXXIII OF THE LONDON EDITION, 1843, AND THE APPENDIX A COMBINATION OF THE APPENDICES OF THE LONDON AND GERMAN [COBLENTZ, 1839] EDITIONS)MAXIMILIAN, PRINZ VON WIED