 | Amos Eaton - Botany - 1820 - 184 pages
...generally constituting the lateral caly-x of a flower, as in the willow, chesnut, pine, &c. 6. Calyptre. The cap or hood of pistillate mosses, resembling in...form and position an extinguisher set on a candle. Conspicuous in the common hair-cap moss. 7. Tolva. The ring or wrapper at first enclosing the E ileus... | |
 | Amos Eaton - Botany - 1829 - 518 pages
...generally constituting the lateral calyx of a flower, as in the willow, chesnut, pine, Sic. 0. Calyptre. The cap or hood of pistillate mosses, resembling in...form and position an extinguisher set on a candle. Conspicuous in the common hair-cap moss. 7. Voira. The ring or wrapper at first enclosing the pileus... | |
 | Mrs. Lincoln Phelps - Botany - 1837 - 470 pages
...only membranous bracts. Calyptra. This term is derived from the Greek, and signifies a veil. It is the cap, or hood, of pistillate mosses, resembling in form and position, the extinguisher of a candle.* Volra, the ring, or wrapper of the fungus plants. It first encloses... | |
 | Amos Eaton, John Wright (M.D.) - Botany - 1840 - 648 pages
...of some seeds. CA'LVCI.ED. See auctus. Having au outer calyx. Calyc'idus. See calycle. Ciily/i'tra. Calyptre, or veil. The cap or hood of pistillate mosses;...closed: which after being detached at the base its form till keeps it on the capsule a while. See 1'ericluetium, which is the true calyx of mosses. Caly/itra'tus.... | |
 | Amos Eaton, John Wright (M.D.) - Botany - 1840 - 652 pages
...seeds. CA'LYCLKD. See aiiclas. Having an outer calyx« Cttli/c'utits. See oalycle. Calyp'tra. Calyplre, or veil. The cap or hood' of pistillate mosses; resembling...extinguisher set on a candle. It is the calyx closed: wliicli after being detached at lln' biise its form till keeps it on the caunule a while. See Perickietium,... | |
 | Amos Eaton, John Wright (M.D.) - Botany - 1840 - 656 pages
...pine, &c. The hard scaly ament of pine trees, and the like, is called strobile, or cone. 6. Cidijplre. The cap or hood of pistillate mosses; resembling,...form and position, an extinguisher set on a candle. Conspicuous in the common hair-cap moss. 7. Vulva. The wrapper at first enclosing the pileus or head... | |
 | Frances Sargent Osgood - Flower language - 1848 - 308 pages
...generally containing the lateral calyx of a flower, as in the willow, chestnut, pine, &c. 6. Calyptre. — The cap or hood of pistillate mosses, resembling,...form and position, an extinguisher set on a candle. Conspicuous in the common haircap-moss. 7. Volva. — The ring or wrapper at first enclosing the pileus... | |
 | Mrs. Lincoln Phelps - Botany - 1850 - 476 pages
...only membranous bracts. Calyptra. This term is derived from the Greek, and signifies a veil. It is the cap, or hood, of pistillate mosses, resembling in form and position, the extinguisher of a candle.* Foteo, the ring, or wrapper of the fungus plants. It first enclose!... | |
 | Mrs. Lincoln Phelps - Botany - 1852 - 510 pages
...bracts, called squamulce, or little scales. c. Calyptra (from the Greek), signifying a veil. It is the cap, or hood of pistillate mosses, resembling in form and position the extinguisher of a candle.* Volea, the ring, or wrapper of the fungus plants; it first incloses... | |
 | Mrs. Lincoln Phelps - Botany - 1853 - 506 pages
...bracts, called squamvlce, or little scales. c. Calyptra (from the Greek), signifying a veil. It is the cap, or hood of pistillate mosses, resembling in form and position the extinguisher of a candle.* Volva, the ring, or wrapper of the fungus plants ; it first incloses... | |
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Calyptre. — The cap or hood of pistillate mosses, resembling, in form and position, an extinguisher set on a candle. Conspicuous in the common haircap-moss. 