| 单词 | bract |
| 例句 | The contrast between its purple bracts and the red flowers of the tree was very pretty. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z A banana flower sheathed in claret bracts hung from a scruffy, torn-leafed tree. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Visitors get to see what the wildling looks like, a tall, leggy bush with bract clusters isolated at the end of long branches. Reinventing the poinsettia: A classic Christmas flower’s colorful new looks 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z Pick the flowering bracts when they are fully opened and bright yellow green in colour and dry on a warm windowsill. How to grow your own medicine cabinet | Alys Fowler 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z Constellation is another upright, vigorous hybrid, but with the kousa dogwood’s low branching habit and with bracts that are long and separated. The dogwood tree — the living symbol of the American spring — makes a comeback 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z A dogwood poinsettia that McLaughlin grew from seed he received from Le Duc is central to the exhibit, though it looks pretty prosaic — a lanky vase-shaped shrub with small white bract clusters. Reinventing the poinsettia: A classic Christmas flower’s colorful new looks 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z It is popular with consumers for its enormous white bracts. The dogwood tree — the living symbol of the American spring — makes a comeback 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z Among the brighter whites, Wheeler commends Polar Bear and Arctic White, a later poinsettia that is pleasantly creamy and with green venation as it colors up, though the bracts are on the small side. The poinsettia, reinvented and still going strong White is the usual color in the wild, but named selections also offer bracts in pink shades to nearly red. Dogwood Planting Guide 2011-03-14T17:50:07.823Z Instead it is achieved by breeding to increase the red pigmentation in the layers of bract cells. Reinventing the poinsettia: A classic Christmas flower’s colorful new looks 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z Euphorbia cyathophora is low and wide, with holly-like leaves, red flower bracts and clear echoes of its relative, the poinsettia. In this garden, fall is a time to flourish, not fade 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Blooms profusely in midspring before leaves expand, almost covering itself with small flower clusters surrounded by four roundish, inch-wide bracts with notched tips. Dogwood Planting Guide 2011-03-14T17:50:07.823Z Aurora is vigorous and upright with velvetlike bracts, rounded and overlapping. The dogwood tree — the living symbol of the American spring — makes a comeback 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z This grows into a tall, rangy shrub whose scarlet bracts appear in the winter. Reinventing the poinsettia: A classic Christmas flower’s colorful new looks 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z The one I really want to try is the larger but floppy hopflower oregano, O. libanoticum, festooned with pale green bracts tipped with pink flowers. Perspective | Hunting for herbs that add flavor in the kitchen and beauty in the garden 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Kay’s Appalachian Mist produces blooms on young trees, and the bracts are conspicuously large and slightly overlapping, giving a rounder effect. The dogwood tree — the living symbol of the American spring — makes a comeback 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z The colored bracts and leaves bruise easily, causing the milky sap to bleed, so they should be handled with care. The poinsettia, reinvented and still going strong Just as most plants are fading at the end of the growing season, hydrangea flowers, technically long-lasting bracts, are at their best, maturing to deep blue, purple and a flight of wines. 'Gardening Can Be Murder': The safest place to encounter these toxic plants 2023-10-28T04:00:00Z In angiosperms, the female gametophyte exists in an enclosed structure—the ovule—which is within the ovary; in gymnosperms, the female gametophyte is present on exposed bracts of the female cone. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Each flower is held in a cuff of threadlike bracts — the “mist” — and appears in spring and early summer. Fill your autumn garden — and your house — with these subtle plants 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z Arching stems produce delicate white flowers and dusky pink bracts throughout the growing season, and the entire plant takes on burnished hues with cool weather in fall. Slow-growing, low-maintenance dwarf shrubs that thrive in small garden spaces 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z Multicolored red-orange flower bracts that will bloom in the late spring and summer. The best California native plant for your zodiac sign 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z Specialized terminology isn’t unique to the ivory tower — just ask a baker about torting or an arborist about bracts, for example. Are You Confused by Scientific Jargon? So Are Scientists 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z Once the seed is ready to be dispersed, the bracts of the female cones open to allow the dispersal of seed; no fruit formation takes place because gymnosperm seeds have no covering. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The four lovely white “petals” are not petals at all; rather, they are bracts — or modified leaves — which whiten as they expand. Blaze of Glory 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z The plants’ specially modified leaves, or bracts, are the largest part of the show. Invasion of the Holiday Houseplant 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z “They are photoperiodic sensitive, meaning that day length is what triggers bract production,” said Scott Sime, production manager at Jolly Lane Greenhouse. Bringing poinsettias to fruition in Rapid City 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z Its leaves have 7- to 11-toothed divisions, and the flowers are in panicles, numerous, cup-shaped and drooping, with many bracts, and green sepals tinged with purple, alternating with the five petals. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z Antheridia 2 in the axils of bracts clustered near the apex of distinct branches. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z They are as lovely as the white bracts, but are no competition for all the white that surrounds them. Blaze of Glory 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z Just like the poinsettia, its true flowers are tiny, surrounded by brightly colored bracts. Invasion of the Holiday Houseplant 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z The flowers, called the cyathea, are the small yellow parts in the center of the bracts and are the poinsettia’s reproductive component. Bringing poinsettias to fruition in Rapid City 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z It has bright yellowish-green flowers, 2 to 4 on a stem, with large leaf-like bracts. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z A secondary bract, as one upon the pedicel of a flower. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Eventually, the bracts fall and the flowers develop into bright red berries. Blaze of Glory 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z Nectar glands on ribs of leaves and on bracts of buds, blooms and bolls. Texas Honey Plants 2012-04-04T02:00:58.927Z The plant blooms when the bracts develop their color, which happens around Christmas in the Northern Hemisphere. Bringing poinsettias to fruition in Rapid City 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z The spathes of aroid plants are conspicuous forms of bracts. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z Having bracts around the calyx imitating an outer calyx. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The green and angular fruit or “nut” ripens in October; it is about � in. in length, is in shape like a small chestnut, and is enclosed in leafy, 3-lobed bracts. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z E. amethystinum, 2 ft., has the upper part of the stem, the bracts, and heads of flowers all of an amethystine blue. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z In order for the bracts to develop their bright colors, the plant needs 12 hours of complete darkness and 12 hours of light starting at the autumnal equinox in September. Bringing poinsettias to fruition in Rapid City 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z A bract on the stalk of a single flower, which is itself on a main stalk that support several flowers. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z A small thin scale or bract, becoming dry and membranous. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The bracts can then only be distinguished from the bractlets by being rather more acute and more strongly veined. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z Acanthus.—Bold handsome plants, with stately spikes, 2 to 3 ft. high, of flowers with spiny bracts. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z Flowers.—In a close head on a common receptacle, surrounded by an involucre, whose divisions are called scales or bracts. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Having the nature or appearance of a bract. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z Leaves channelled, linear; spikes 3–5, on unequal often recurved peduncles, ovoid, chestnut-brown; bracts ciliate-fringed; sepals taper-pointed, longer than the obtuse capsule; seeds not appendaged.—Alpine summits of the White Mts. and far northward. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The ovary and the base of the bracts are covered with a yellowish powder, consisting of minute sessile grains, called lupulin or lupulinic glands. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z Euphorbia.—Plants whose beauty resides in the bracts or floral leaves which surround the inconspicuous flowers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z These blossoms are always borne in pairs at the summit of the stem, and are surrounded by a leafy involucre, consisting of two pairs of round, fluted bracts. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z It lifts its heavy bracts of flattened bloom Against the sky Hazily grey with brume. Goblins and Pagodas 2012-02-14T03:00:24.740Z Mostly stiff, with short erect closely flowered spikes, an entirely staminate terminal spike, dark colored scales, and bracts with purple or black auricles at base; stigmas 2 or 3.—Sp. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The variety palustre, which affects boggy situations, and flowers in late summer and autumn, has nearly entire leaves, and the outer bracts of its involucre are erect. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z The generally one-seeded nut-like fruit is associated with the persistent often hardened or greatly enlarged bracts forming the so-called cupule which gives the name to the group. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z Flowers.—Yellow; five or six lines long; in dense clusters, subtended by an involucre of five distinct bracts. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Hair′-grass, a kind of grass found generally on poor soil, the bracts of whose florets are generally awned near the base; Hair′iness.—adj. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z Spikes scattered, cylindrical, the lowest long-stalked; bracts erect, long and leafy; sheaths short or nearly obsolete.—Sp. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Several varieties of the dandelion are recognized by botanists; they differ in the degree and mode of cutting of the leaf-margin and the erect or spreading character of the outer series of bracts. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z Female flowers arranged, two to three together on scale-like structures formed by the union of bracts, in catkins; ovary two-celled; fruit small, flattened, protected between the ripened scales of the catkin. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z Slender, with many erect branches; stems and bracts usually dark-reddish; soft pubescent. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z After fertilization, some of the uppermost bracts below each flower become red and fleshy; the perianth develops into a woody shell, while the integument remains membranous. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z Antheridia solitary in the axils of leaf-like bracts. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The flower with its pale is sessile, and is placed in the axis of another bract in such a way that the pale is exactly opposed to it, though at a slightly higher level. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z Male flowers appearing in the autumn in pendulous cylindrical catkins two inches or more in length, with a two-cleft calyx partly united with the bracts or scales. The Nut Culturist A Treatise on Propogation, Planting, and Cultivation of Nut Bearing Trees and Shrubs Adapted to the Climate of the United States 2011-11-12T03:00:31.793Z The colorless leaves are reduced to mere bracts, and the stems are densely clothed above with the little yellowish waxen bells. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z One argument that has been adduced in support of the axillary bud theory is derived from the Palaeozoic type Cordaites, in which each ovule occurs on an axis borne in the axil of a bract. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z Antheridia 1 or 2 in the axils of bracts terminal on slender branches. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The two bracts are, however, on different axes, one secondary to the other, and cannot therefore be parts of one whorl of organs. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z Its flowers have six, instead of four, of the petal-like, white bracts, each narrower and pointed, and without the terminal notch. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z Scapes.—One-flowered; one or two inches long; jointed in the middle, with a whorl of five to seven scarious bracts at the joint. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Clary, klār′i, n. a biennial with clammy stem, large, heart-shaped, rough, doubly crenate leaves, and whorls of pale-blue flowers in loose terminal spikes, with large coloured bracts. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 2011-10-11T02:01:08.990Z Rather low; leaves ½´ broad or more; staminate spike sessile or very nearly so; pistillate spikes cylindric and loose, the upper one or two contiguous; bracts very broad. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The female heads are spinose with long pungent bracts, fall entire when ripe and are carried away by wind or sea, becoming finally anchored in the sand and falling to pieces. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z The seeds are few but the panicles have expanded and show a peculiar feathery development of the bracts that take the place of the fruits. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z Involucre.—Silky hairy; broadly campanulate; with imbricated, appressed bracts. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z It is a nutlet about ⅓ of an inch long, attached to a leaf-like halberd-shaped bract which acts as a wing in aiding its distribution by the wind. Forest Trees of Illinois How to Know Them 2011-10-08T02:00:23.997Z Pedicels short and bracts small; corolla pale yellow, 4´´ long, with short spur and entire crest, or flowers often cleistogamous and much smaller, without spur or crest; pods ascending, torulose; seeds obtuse-margined, smooth and shining.—N. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The term fruit is strictly applied to the mature pistil or ovary, with the seeds in its interior; but it often includes other parts of the flower, such as the bracts and floral envelopes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z Under each is a pair of red silky bracts and the infant leaves are red and silky, all adding their warmth of color when the tree is white with bloom. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z Buds.—One or two; borne in sheathing bracts. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z The fruit, which resembles that of common hop vine, consists of a branch of leafy bracts 1 to 2 inches long containing a number of flattened ribbed nutlets. Forest Trees of Illinois How to Know Them 2011-10-08T02:00:23.997Z Flowers monœcious, solitary or 2 or 3 together in the axil of the same leaf, wholly naked or between a pair of membranaceous bracts. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z There is a promise of bloom in blushing arbutus buds, a promise even now fulfilled by the first squirrelcups just out of their furry bracts and already calling the bees abroad. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z The oblong cylindrical cones, four to five inches long, are velvety, their scales covered by bracts, shaped and notched like a scallop shell, with a forward-pointing spine, exceeding the bract in length. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z Flowers.—Four to seven; contained in two nearly equal sheathing bracts. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z The flowers are yellowish-white, in drooping clusters opening in early summer, and flower stem is united to the middle of a long narrow leaf-like bract. Forest Trees of Illinois How to Know Them 2011-10-08T02:00:23.997Z Umbels usually compound, in which case the secondary ones are termed umbellets; the whorl of bracts which often subtends the general umbel is the involucre, and those of the umbellets the involucels. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The colour of the bracts is a deep yellow. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z The purple cones are ornamented by pale yellow cut-toothed bracts that turn back over the edge of the plain scale. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z Whorls.—Twelve to eighteen lines in diameter; subtended by numerous, ovate-acuminate bracts. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z It remains attached in clusters to the leafy bract, which later acts as a wing to bear it away on the wind. Forest Trees of Illinois How to Know Them 2011-10-08T02:00:23.997Z Annual; flowers clustered; bractlets of the calyx and bracts lance-awl-form, herbaceous, downy, as long as the tube; leaves linear, hairy; petals small, rose-color with white dots, crenate.—Fields, etc., eastward. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The flowering stems are gathered in June, when the bracts are fully developed, all the fully-expanded and immature flowers being pulled off and rejected. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z Blue-green, shading to purple, with red-lipped scales and bright green bracts, these cones are truly the handsomest ornaments worn by any tree. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z Each of these heads has below it a number of leafy bracts, which are often of a bright wine-color, and form a rather striking combination with the blue flowers. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z One needle; cones 2 to 4 inches long; a three-lobed bract projects from beneath each scale of the cone, a very distinctive character; common at middle elevations. Grand Teton [Wyoming] National Park 2011-05-19T02:00:05.867Z Leaves large, green and glabrous or nearly so, thickish; floral bract usually tapering at base; fruit ovoid.—Rich woods. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z In many cases bracts act as protective organs, within or beneath which the young flowers are concealed in their earliest stage of growth. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z The yew-like leaves spread laterally, and are of a deep green tint; the cones are furnished with tridentate bracts that project far beyond the scales. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z Flowers.—White to deep lilac; in a dense head subtended by a number of ovate, green bracts. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z The flowers are small, hermaphrodite, numerous, in purplish-brown tufts, and each with a fringed basal bract; the bell-shaped calyx is often four-toothed and surrounds four free stamens; the pistil bears two spreading hairy styles. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z Nearly smooth and glandless; stems diffuse; leaflets ovate-elliptical, reticulated; stipules ovate; flowers in heads on rather short peduncles; bracts broadly ovate, sharp-pointed.—Rocks, The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z A series of empty coloured bracts terminates the inflorescence of Salvia Horminum. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z The large cones stand erect on the branches, are cylindrical in shape, and have long bracts, the curved points of which project beyond the scales. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z But in this blossom the bracts do not constitute the brilliant part of the inflorescence, and the calyx, instead of being the showy, sheathing envelop it is in the paint-brush, is quite small and inconspicuous. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z It is a small herb reaching about 6 in. high, with narrow white woolly leaves, and terminal flower-heads enveloped in woolly bracts. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" 2011-01-19T03:00:19.027Z Flowers destitute of proper perianth, except sometimes small scales or bristles, but covered by scale-like bracts or glumes. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The smaller bracts or bracteoles, which occur among the subdivisions of a branching inflorescence, often produce no flower-buds, and thus anomalies occur in the floral arrangements. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z Their cones are composed of thin, rounded, closely imbricated scales, each with a more or less conspicuous bract springing from the base. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z Strange to say, most of their brilliancy is due not to the corollas, but to the large petal-like bracts under the flowers and to the calyxes. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z On the back of each of the broad scales there is a long, slender, pointed bract, which extends beyond the scale and turns downward. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z Glume a single scale-like bract with a flower in its axil. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Exceptions, such as in cruciferous plants, are due to the non-appearance of the bracts. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z As soon as the squares form, the weevil gets on the inside of the bracts and feeds only by inserting its beak deep into the squares. How to Prosper in Boll Weevil Territory 2010-12-24T03:00:31.740Z The leaves and bracts are quite viscid, and have a rather rank, unpleasant odor; but the flowers are not without a certain comeliness. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z In the female the bracts fall early, but their place is taken by three-lobed bracteoles, which enlarge after flowering, and become an inch or an inch and a half long. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z Perennial; leaves short, narrowly lanceolate, downy and roughish; flowers solitary; bracts ovate, half as long as the tube; petals rose-color or white, toothed.—Mich., The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z And finally, we find flowers consisting of a single stamen with a bract. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z When the weevil punctures a square, it turns yellow and the bracts flare open. How to Prosper in Boll Weevil Territory 2010-12-24T03:00:31.740Z The bracts and stems are usually of a rich bronze, which harmonizes finely with the color of the flowers. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z The shell is the ovary that has become woody and hard; the ragged-edged leathery "shuck" is the enlarged bracts that surrounded the minute flower. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z Ovules naked upon a scale, bract, or disk. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z There is thus traced a degradation, as it is called, from a flower with three stamens and three divisions of the calyx, to one with a single bract and a single stamen. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z Br, The bract devoid of muscles and respiratory in function. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" Scapes.—Three to twelve inches high, bearing an umbel of small greenish-white flowers, subtended by several small lanceolate to linear bracts. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z The female spikes have the fleshy scales covered by red-brown bracts of a woody consistence, which persist after the fruit has dropped out of them. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z Style, if any, and stigma only one; leaves simple; no scarious bracts around the flowers. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z In Compositae besides the involucre there are frequently chaffy and setose bracts at the base of each flower, and in Dipsacaceae a membranous tube surrounds each flower. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z The spikes of the flowers grow nearly 4 feet long, in bunches, covered with purple-coloured bracts. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis Staminate catkins.—Two to ten inches long, consisting of a flexile chain of funnel-form bracts, depending one from another; each having six flowers like clappers. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z The rich, sweet perfume seemed to gather round them, and the dainty flowers, with their shining leaves and golden bracts, looked like great white stars. Love Works Wonders A Novel Smooth; leaflets 7–9, lanceolate or linear-oblong; heads oblong, when old cylindrical; bracts awned, longer than the nearly glabrous calyx; corolla white.—With n. 1. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z When bracts become united, and overlie each other in several rows, it often happens that the outer ones do not produce flowers, that is, are empty or sterile. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z Tuba is collected from the unexpanded blossoms as soon as they have fairly pushed through the subtending bracts. The Cocoanut With reference to its products and cultivation in the Philippines Bractlet, a bract of the ultimate grade; as one inserted on a pedicel or ultimate flower-stalk instead of under it. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Anterior, in the blossom, is the part next the bract, i. e. external; while the posterior side is that next the axis of inflorescence. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools Leaves often palmately divided; bracts and stipules often present. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The sterile bracts of the daisy occasionally produce capitula, and give rise to the hen-and-chickens daisy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z Its stems were clustered, from six to ten inches high, with long, erect scales, broader below and gradually narrower, and finally becoming bracts. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 2 Subtended, supported or surrounded; as a pedicel by a bract, or a flower-cluster by an involucre. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Specially, the bract is the small leaf or scale from the axil of which a flower or its pedicel proceeds, 73. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools Spikelets terete, many-flowered, in a terminal close cluster involucrate by leafy bracts. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z A sheathing bract enclosing one or several flowers is called a spathe. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z Chiefly of soft grey and green colours, the bracts are, however, suffused with a warmer reddish tint. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens Flowers.—Axillary on solitary peduncles; sometimes becoming racemose by the diminution of the upper leaves to bracts. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Diagram of a scorpioid cyme, with opposite leaves or bracts. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools Stigmas filiform; no bracts at or near the base of the calyx. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z If other flowers were produced, they would arise as lateral shoots from the bracts below the first-formed flower. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z These catkins are pendulous, cylindrical, and often slender inflorescences, carrying flowers of one sex only, which spring from the axils of scaly bracts. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens Leaves.—Mainly alternate; sessile; often cut into from three to five filiform divisions; the upper passing into the bracts of the dense spike and usually colored, as are the calyx-lobes. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Now the side of the blossom which faces the bract is the Anterior, or Inferior, or Lower side; while the side next the axis is the Posterior, or Superior, or Upper side of the flower. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools Seeds many, wing-margined.—Smooth perennials, with upright branching stems, opposite serrate leaves, and large white or purple flowers, which are nearly sessile in spikes or clusters, and closely imbricated with round-ovate concave bracts and bractlets. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The bracts are like the ordinary leaves of the plant, and produce clusters of flowers in their axil. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z In all these Poplars the male catkins are three inches to four inches long, chiefly grey-brown in colour; the scale-like bracts, however, are suffused with a reddish shade. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens Leaves.—Opposite, rarely whorled; the upper sessile or clasping; the floral gradually or abruptly reduced to bracts. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Diagram of Violet-flower; showing the relation of parts to bract and axis. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools Sterile flowers in long and simple lateral catkins from the wood of the preceding year; the calyx adherent to the entire bracts or scales, unequally 3–6-cleft. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z In the uniparous cyme a number of floral axes are successively developed one from the other, but the axis of each successive generation, instead of producing a pair of bracts, produces only one. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z Leycesteria formosa Temperate Himalaya; Caprifoliace� Purplish white, and purple bracts A very interesting shrub, 6 feet high in the milder parts of these isles, but hardy almost everywhere. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens Involucre.—Campanulate or hemispherical; six lines high, with many imbricated scales passing downward into loose, awl-shaped bracts. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Involucre, a whorl or set of bracts around a flower, umbel, or head, &c., The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools Sterile flowers in slender lateral and clustered catkins; calyx naked, adherent to the bract, unequally 2–3-parted. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z About the middle of this axis there is a leaf or bract, from which a secondary floral axis a″ is produced, ending in a single flower f″, less advanced than the flower f′. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z Loropetalum chinense China; Hamamelide� Pure white; Winter A very interesting shrub, with long petals, resembling one of the flowers of Hamamelis; they appear 6 to 8 together in clusters at the bract tips. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens Flowers.—Without sepals and petals, sunk in a conical spike; six to eighteen lines long; a small white bract under each flower. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Wherever there are bracts or leaves, buds may be produced from their axils and appear as flowers. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools Stamens 4, exserted, diverging.—Perennials, with nearly entire leaves, and purplish flowers crowded in cylindrical or oblong spikes, imbricated with colored bracts. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z According to the mode and degree of development of the lateral shoots and also of the bracts, various forms of both inflorescences result. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z Those that chance to be left by the industrious harvesters drop the scales and bracts when fully ripe, and it is fine to see the purple-winged seeds flying in swirling, merry-looking flocks seeking their fortunes. My First Summer in the Sierra Spikes.—Subtended by from five to eight white petal-like bracts, six to fifteen lines long. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Multiple or Collective, when formed from several flowers consolidated into one mass, of which the common receptacle or axis of inflorescence, the floral envelopes, and even the bracts, etc., make a part. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools Pubescent annual; clusters few-flowered; bracts small or none.—Escaping from gardens and sparingly wild in Ohio to Ill., etc. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The bracts are usually scale-like, but sometimes foliaceous, as for instance in Calystegia, where they are large and envelop the calyx. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" Flower clusters small and dense, surrounded by a showy involucre of 4 bracts, resembling a corolla of 4 petals — 4. 3b. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State Flowers.—Twenty-five to fifty, in loose panicles; small; with six to nine sepal-like bracts. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Chaff, small membranous scales or bracts on the receptacle of Composit�; the glumes, &c., of grasses. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools C. hyssopifòlium, L. Somewhat hairy when young, pale; floral leaves or bracts awl-shaped from a dilated base or the upper ovate and pointed, scarious-margined; fruit wing-margined.—Sandy beaches along the Great Lakes, central Neb., The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Leaves it has none, just a scarious brown bract that encloses a part of the stem. Old Plymouth Trails Principal bracts of the involucre 5, with frequently a few much smaller ones — 76. 75b. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State Flowers.—Numerous; small; greenish; in a head surrounded by an involucre of four to six large, yellowish or white bracts, often tinged with red, and eighteen lines to three inches long. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z And the bracts, when brought in this way into a cluster or circle, form what is called an Involucre. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools Flowers perfect, sessile in the axils of leafy bracts. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z It is not that certain flowers that came joyously in June are now but dry bracts and seed pods. Old Plymouth Trails A flower-cluster containing several or many small flowers, closely crowded together and provided with calyx-like bracts, so that the whole cluster resembles a single flower. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State Scape.—Six to fifteen inches high, with scattered lanceolate bracts. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Plainly the bracts here answer to the leaves in Fig. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools Annual, prostrate or usually erect, 1–2° high, branched; leaves narrow at base, ½–2´ long, acute; floral bracts acuminate, on slender branchlets; sepals very thick; anthers exserted; seed horizontal, round-oval, black, ½´´ broad. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The latter are borne three together, invested by a cupule of four green bracts, which, as the fruit matures, grow to form the tough green prickly envelope surrounding the group of generally three nuts. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" A peduncle arising directly from the base of the plant, leafless or bearing bracts only. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State Stem.—Simple; a foot or so high; bearing at summit a crown of large leaves, mixed with many dry, chaffy, persistent bracts. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z The head of the Button-bush is naked; but that of the Thistle, of the Dandelion, and the like, is surrounded by empty bracts, which form an Involucre. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools S. cérnuus, L. Flowers white, fragrant; spike nodding at the end; bract lanceolate; filaments long and capillary.—Swamps, The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The male flowers are arranged in the form of a spike protected by a modified leaf called the bract. Philippine Mats Philippine Craftsman Reprint Series No. 1 Flowers in close clusters, subtended by four large white petal-like bracts 4b, in CORNACEAE, p. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State As the berries ripen and become black, these bracts deepen to a brilliant red and make the shrubs much more conspicuous and ornamental than at blossoming-time. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z But if the flowering branches bear only bracts in place of ordinary leaves, the result is the kind of flower-cluster called 219. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools Fertile flowers in the axils of leafy bracts. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The flowers do not have the showy colored bracts which forms so prominent a feature in those of many other plants. Philippine Mats Philippine Craftsman Reprint Series No. 1 Petals none; each flower in the axil of a single chaffy bract 2a, in CYPERACEAE, p. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State They have from fifty to seventy rays and their involucres consist of several rows of scarious-margined bracts. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z When the bracts are also wanting in such cases, as in many Borragineous plants, the true nature of the inflorescence is very much disguised. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools Sterile flowers numerous and lining the base of the involucre, each from the axil of a little bract, and consisting merely of a single stamen jointed on a pedicel like the filament; anther-cells globular, separate. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The male inflorescence, about 60 cm. long and partly covered by creamy yellow bracts, is erect and occurs at the end of the branches. Philippine Mats Philippine Craftsman Reprint Series No. 1 Flowers in close spikes or heads, surrounded or subtended by a green or colored bract, the whole resembling a single flower; petals minute or wanting; leaves broad, not grass-like, linear, or sword-shape ARACEAE, p. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State There is a difference in the involucre, which has two series of bracts, and there are no touches of black among the disk-flowers. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Diagram of analogous scorpioid cyme, with alternate leaves or bracts. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools Fertile flowers in short axillary and solitary spikes or catkins; bracts foliaceous, imbricated, each 2-flowered, in fruit forming a sort of membranaceous strobile. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The parts back of the scales are bracts; these often project beyond the scales, when they are said to be exserted. Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination Flowers consisting of a greenish or purplish bract wholly or partly enclosing a fleshy spike 2, in ARACEAE, p. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State The sturdy, zigzagging stems and glaucous leaves and bracts, combined with the large rich, canary-colored or golden flowers, make a striking plant. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z An axillary flower stands between the bract or leaf which subtends it and the axis or stem which bears this bract or leaf. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools Flowers in scaly catkins, 2 or 3 to each bract. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Sometimes the exserted bracts are bent backward; they are then said to be recurved or reflexed. Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination Flowers of the composite type, with several or many small flowerets closely aggregated into a dense head surrounded by a calyx-like involucre of small bracts 10, in COMPOSITAE. p. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State This is more or less silky pubescent; its wings are not spreading, its leaflets are narrower, and the bract of the umbel is sessile. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Glume; Glumes are the husks or floral coverings of Grasses, or, particularly, the outer husks or bracts of each spikelet. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools Flowers diœcious or polygamous, collected in terminal heads, each in the axil of a scaly bract, and with 5 or 6 thin and scarious imbricated bractlets, but no proper calyx. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z P. Fruit a rounded stony nut, in green leafy edged bracts; shrubs or small trees 85. Corylus. Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination Plants of the composite type, with several or many small flowerets closely aggregated into a dense head surrounded or subtended by a calyx-like involucre of small bracts — 67. 66b. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State Involucre.—Oval; of about five thin bracts; two lines long. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Spires of green, mounting on every side, soon open upon the top into lilies of deep lavender, and the scarlet bracts of the painted-cup glow side by side with the crimson of the cardinal-flower. Our Italy Scape 1° high or more; leaves keeled; raceme elongated; bracts longer than the pedicels; sepals pale blue, 3-nerved, 4–7´´ long; capsule acutely triangular-globose. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z R. Fruit an elongated catkin with large leaf-like bracts; bark close, gray, on a grooved trunk 87. Carpinus. Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination Flowers blue, sessile in terminal spikes with leaf-like bracts LYTHRACEAE, p. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State Flowers.—Pink to lavender; one to nearly three inches across, with a pair of thin bracts just below the calyx, partly enveloping it. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z This clinging quality arises from the bracts of the involucrum being long and stiff, and with hooked tips which attach themselves to every passing object. The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Mostly taller and stouter; spikes larger and less attenuated or even truncate below, approximate or even aggregated, the head erect or nearly so and the lowest bract occasionally prominent; perigynium thicker and firmer in texture. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Flowers small, cream-colored, fragrant, in clusters on a peculiar, oblong, leaf-like bract. Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination Flowers small, in dense heads subtended by conspicuous bracts — 99. 98b. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State Upper leaves.—Lanceolate, or linear and entire; sessile; uppermost diminished into remote, subulate bracts. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Underneath the flowerhead of the Daisy is a green cushion, composed of bracts; in the Hen and Chickens Daisy some of these bracts assume the form of flowers, and are the chickens. The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Involucre of 5–15 distinct bracts, enclosing numerous sessile flowers. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Fruit ovoid, somewhat ribbed, � in. broad, greenish when ripe in October, on a bract which is usually tapering to the base. Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination Flowers minute, subtended by palmately cleft axillary bracts 1a, in EUPHORBIACEAE, p. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State Scapes.—Flesh-colored; six to twenty-four inches high, with two to four scarious, sheathing bracts. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z If the plant is neglected, or does not like its soil, the chickens again become bracts. The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Flowers perfect, single and sessile in the axils of the upper leaves reduced to bracts, usually forming a spike. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Fruit globose, 1/5 in. broad, on a bract usually quite rounded at base. Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination Juice milky; apparent flowers consisting of a few white or colored petal-like bracts, inclosing a few inconspicuous flowers without petals. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State Leaves.—Lanceolate or linear; or the lowest oblong-lanceolate; diminishing into narrow floral bracts. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Another apparently terrestrial organism of the lower formation, of, however, rare occurrence, very much resembles a sheathing bract or spathe. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Flowers diœcious, in short catkin-like jointed spikes, usually several to each short fleshy bract or scale, and sunk in the joint. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Flowers small, of 4 petals, in some species rendered very conspicuous by large bracts. Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination Plants of the composite type, with several or many small flowerets closely aggregated into a dense head subtended by a calyx-like involucre of small bracts — 146. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State Leaves.—Alternate; the lower oblong or lanceolate, partly clasping, sometimes sharply incised; the upper reduced to bracts. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z The flowers are unisexual; the fruit consists of hardened bracts with winged seeds. Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia Flowers often showy, commonly singular in shape, solitary, racemed, or spiked, each subtended by a bract,—in all arranged for fertilization by the aid of insects, very few capable of unaided self-fertilization. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Flowers in a head surrounded by 4 white bracts, making the whole cluster look like a single large flower 3 in. broad. Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination Corolla perfectly regular; flowers in terminal clusters without bracts, becoming racemes; taste peppery 52a, in CRUCIFERAE, p. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State Flowers.—In a dense, short spike, with broad, leafy bracts; purple, violet, or rarely white. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z At this stage the bracts present two important distinctions. The Genus Pinus Flowers white, fragrant, large and showy, sessile in an umbel-like head or cluster, subtended by 2 or more scarious bracts. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z A variety with the bracts quite red is also cultivated. Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination Apparent flowers consisting of a few petal-like bracts, inclosing a few inconspicuous flowers without petals. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State In lieu of leaves, the plant was supplied with many overlapping scalelike bracts of a flesh-tint. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z The branchlet furnishes evidence of the section to which the species belongs, for the bract-bases persist after the bracts have fallen away. The Genus Pinus Flowers produced all summer, whorled in threes, with membranous bracts; the sterile above. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Racemes drooping, of sweet-scented flowers, with the bracts longer than the flowers. Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination Plants of the composite type, with several or many small flowerets closely aggregated in dense heads subtended by a calyx-like involucre of small bracts 11, in COMPOSITAE, p. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State The strong stems are tall and slender, and bear at summit the large bristly cones, surrounded by rigid, erect bracts. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z In the herbarium the long leaves, deciduous sheaths, and the decurrent bases of the bracts, present a combination of characters not found in other species. The Genus Pinus Spikes green, oblong, densely crowded into a short head subtended by two or three leafy bracts which are erect and prolonged from six inches to a foot; perigynium linear-lanceolate, scarcely margined.—Sp. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Racemes erect, often compound, with bracts shorter than the flowers and with smooth filaments. Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination Grasses, with linear or narrow sheathing leaves, and very small flowers without perianth in the axils of chaffy bracts, appearing in late spring and summer. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State These cones are the inflorescence of the plant, and each downward-pointing little hook is a bract beneath a flower. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Male flower axillary, solitary or in groups of 3–6, pedunculate with small bracts. The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Leaves roundish-heart-shaped, pointed; involucre open above down to the globose nut, of 2 broad foliaceous cut-toothed almost distinct bracts, their base coriaceous and downy, or with glandular bristles intermixed.—Thickets, The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Involucre of the fruit open to the globose nut, the two leaf-like bracts very much cut-toothed at the margin and thick and leathery at the base. Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination These consist typically of a short axis, the rachilla, almost or quite concealed by several chaffy bracts. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State This plant is white and ghostlike throughout, has stems a foot or two high, but no leaves—only three to five scarious sheathing bracts. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Flowers yellow, in racemes, with caducous bracts and bractlets. The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Fertile flowers in catkins, consisting of numerous open spirally imbricated carpels in the form of scales, each scale in the axil of a thin persistent bract; in fruit forming a strobile or cone. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The involucre, extending beyond the nut in a bract like a bottle, is covered with stiff, short hairs. Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination The two lower bracts are termed glumes, and have no flowers in their axils. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State Scape.—Eighteen inches or more high, with green bracts crowded near the solitary nodding flower. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Flowers terminal, white-green, in racemes of 3 sessile flowers with lanceolate bracts. The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Fertile aments of several spirally arranged imbricated scales, without bracts, becoming a globular woody cone. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Flowers yellow; ovary silky, on a stalk half as long as the bracts. Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination Above the glumes are two or more other bracts, the lemmas. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State Over the snow the wind drives the bracts, which drag along the branch of fruit much as a sail propels a boat. Seed Dispersal Flowers compound in axillary spikes, which bear the flowerets in 2 ranks, each flower with a keeled bract. The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Nutlets minute, very long-stalked.—Spathes merely deciduous bracts, or none. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Cones ripening the first year; their scales thin and smooth, and the bracts generally exserted; scales and bracts breaking off at maturity and falling away, leaving the axis on the tree. Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination In the axil of each lemma, and usually concealed by it, is a smaller bract, the palea, and between the lemma and the palea is a single flower. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State The curving of the edges of the bract toward the fruit enables the wind to catch it all the better, and to lift it more or less from the snow. Seed Dispersal Staminate: By 3′s in the axil of each bract; perianth, 3 or 5 deeply cut, lanceolate lobules; stamens 15–25, free, inserted in the center of the flower. The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Smaller and green, 6–12´ high; leaves mostly longer than the culm; bracts erect; perigynium straight or nearly so, the beak often rough. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Cones oblong, 1 to 2 in. long, with sharp-pointed bracts half exserted and reflexed. Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination Spikelet plump and compact, its bracts closely folded about each other — 19. 18b. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State This bract, when dead, is bent near the middle and more or less twisted, with the edges curving toward the cluster of nuts. Seed Dispersal The flower stalk rises through the center developing a drooping spike, the flowers in short rows in the axils of its large purplish bracts. The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Tall perennials, with mostly whorled leaves; racemes terminal, dense, spiked; bracts very small; tube of the corolla longer than its limb and much longer than the calyx; both sometimes 5-cleft. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Cones large, 5 in. long, ovate, erect, with very obtuse scales; bracts exserted and recurved. Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination Spikelet loose and open, somewhat flattened, its 3 bracts ascending or spreading and not closely folded about each other — 20. 19a. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State The less a loaded bract whirls, the faster its descent, and the more a bract whirls when the wind blows, the farther it is carried. Seed Dispersal Sometimes the flower-stems or peduncles are branched, bearing two or three flowers, and in that case there may be a small green leaf or bract where the fork arises. The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1 Erect or often prostrate, the lower clusters at least of pistillate flowers more or less cymose and often in globose heads; bracts thinner, narrow and lax, shorter than the fruit. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Cones 3 in. long, ovate, cylindric, obtuse, with rounded, entire scales and hidden bracts. Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination Involucre of 2 broad bracts, almost separate and not much longer than the fruit Hazel, Corylus americana. 10b. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State The bract that is weighted with a load of fruit acts as a kite held back by a string, and when in this position the wind lifts the whole as well as carries it along. Seed Dispersal The aments are usually 3-4 inches long with individual flowers consisting of 4 stamens with their surrounding bract and calyx lobes. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953 Clusters of sterile flowers with a minute bract; the fertile surrounded by a large and leaf-like cut-lobed persistent bract. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Cones 4 to 5 in. long, oval, sessile; scales rounded, broad, entire; bracts short. Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination Involucre of united bracts, prolonged into a bristly beak beyond the fruit Beaked Hazel, Corylus rostrata. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State The small clusters of fruit project from a queer bract which remains attached before and after falling from the tree. Seed Dispersal Female spikelets are collected in large globose heads of stellately spreading very long rigid rod-like processes surrounded by shorter subulate bracts. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses Fertile catkins and cones erect on the upper side of spreading branches; cones maturing the first year; their thin scales and mostly exserted bracts deciduous at maturity. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Cones oblong-cylindric, 3 to 5 in. long, 1� in. in diameter; scales twice as broad as long; bracts short, not projecting. Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination A bract at the base of a spikelet of a grass. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State The distance to which the fruit can be carried depends on the form of the bract, the velocity of the wind, and the smoothness of the surface on which the fruit falls. Seed Dispersal The grain is orbicular, compressed, channelled at the back and enclosed within the stony, hardened and polished bract. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses Flowers single in the axils of coriaceous scale-like bracts, which are densely imbricated in a head. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Cones 7 to 8 in. long, nearly 2 in. in diameter, cylindric, obtuse, erect, with thin and entire scales, and short and hidden bracts. Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination One of the bracts in the spikelet of a grass, and described in the treatment of that family. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State In throwing some of these from a third-story window, it was found that a bract with no fruit attached would reach the ground sooner than a bract that bore from two to four solid nuts. Seed Dispersal The inflorescence consists of simple spikes, each in a spathiform bract, and forming clusters terminating the stem and the branches. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses Scapes or peduncles terminated by a single head, involucrate by some outer empty bracts. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Cones 6 to 7 in. long and nearly 2 in. in diameter, cylindric, sessile, with large, entire, incurved scales; bracts large, exserted, reflexed, spatulate, with terminal, awl-shaped points. Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination In the decoration on the ancient Sikyatki bowl we find seven peripheral bracts, one of which is speckled. Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 The leaves are small and slender, the flowers very small, with no display, and surrounded by little rigid, sharp-pointed bracts. Seed Dispersal The glumes of a spikelet are really modified bracts and some differentiate the flowering glumes from the empty ones, by giving them different names. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses Flowers, also the tips of the bracts, etc., usually white-bearded or woolly. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Cones 6 to 8 in. long, cylindric, brown when ripe; scales broad, thin, rounded; bracts long, exserted, with an acute reflexed tip. Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination Figure f of this plate is decorated with a design which bears many resemblances to a flower, the peripheral appendages resembling bracts of a sunflower. Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 After sailing for perhaps fifteen minutes, the whole bract and stem go under water, the nuts floating the whole as they continue to drift with the wind. Seed Dispersal The male inflorescence consists of several spikes, 1 to 3 inches long, forming umbels, with membranous leafy spathaceous bracts which are shorter than the spikes. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses The bracts or scales, which often grow on the receptacle among the flowers, are called the chaff; when these are wanting, the receptacle is said to be naked.—The largest order of Phænogamous plants. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The cone-scales are very small, but the bracts are large, thick, and serrate. Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination That the bracts also may assume this condition, may be inferred from the peculiar horn-like structures of Marcgraavia, which appear to originate from the union of the margins of the reflected leaf. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants This bract has attracted a good deal of attention, and for a long time everybody wondered what could be its use. Seed Dispersal The female inflorescence is a large globose head consisting of short spikelets articulate at the very base of the rachis, short bracts and very long, spreading, rigid rod-like rachises. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses Fertile flowers in a short ament or head, 2 to each bract, and each with one or more bractlets which form a foliaceous involucre to the nut. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Cones 1 to 1� in. long, nearly globular, erect, very persistent, mostly clustered, sessile; the scale is a mere transverse ridge, but the bract is large and prominent, like a triangular-hastate, dilated leaf. Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination Another flower of the same plant bore on its pedicel a small leaf, which was doubtless the bract raised above its ordinary position. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants The flowers are not large but the bright red bracts add a touch of color and the plant is covered with them most of the year. Gardening Indoors and Under Glass A Practical Guide to the Planting, Care and Propagation of House Plants, and to the Construction and Management of Hotbed, Coldframe and Small Greenhouse The lowest-spikelet in the raceme is female and this is enclosed in a bract which at length becomes hardened, polished and nut-like and the other spikelets above it are male. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses Leaves ovate or ovate-oblong, somewhat heart-shaped, pointed; involucre of united bracts, much prolonged above the ovoid nut into a narrow tubular beak, densely bristly.—N. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Scales wedge-shaped, corrugated, overlapping, coriaceous, persistent; bracts adherent, broad, and smooth. Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination There were several bracts beneath this flower disposed spirally in the 1/3 arrangement, all being empty, excepting the terminal one. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Annual marjoram is much more erect, more bush-like, has smaller, narrower leaves, whiter flowers, green bracts and larger, but lighter seeds—only 113,000 to the ounce and only 20 ounces to the quart! Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses The female spikelet is enclosed by a closed bract which finally becomes hardened, and there are four glumes in the spikelet. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses Heads spicate or racemose in the axils of leaves or leaf-like bracts; fertile flowers with evident corolla. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Flowers lateral, solitary, erect; the sterile from leafless, the fertile from leafy dwarf branches; sterile roundish, sessile; anthers yellow: fertile oblong, short-stalked; bracts crimson or red. Handbook of the Trees of New England The scales and bracts of the cone in these abnormal specimens frequently afford transitional forms of the greatest value in enabling morphologists to comprehend the real nature of the floral structure. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants One of the bracts surrounding the calyx and part of the corolla are cut away. Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses This species is easily recognized by the polished bract enclosing the female spikelet. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses Otherwise as Tussilago.—Perennial woolly herbs, with the leaves all from the rootstock, white-woolly beneath, the scape with sheathing scaly bracts, bearing heads of purplish or whitish fragrant flowers, in a corymb. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Sterile flowers at the base of the season's shoots, clustered, oblong-rounded: fertile flowers along the sides or about the terminal buds of the season's shoots, single, in twos or in clusters; bracts ovate, roundish, purplish. Handbook of the Trees of New England Scape with two leaves; the bracts of the involucre are also leafy. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Occasionally, flowers in themselves inconspicuous are surrounded by showy leaves or bracts which take the place of the petals of the showier flowers in attracting insect visitors. Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses The inflorescence is a leafy panicle of many small spikes enclosed in spathiform bracts. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses Flowers white, small, in terminal umbel-like clusters from large scaly buds; bracts or scales thin and caducous. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Inflorescence usually appearing before the leaves; flowers with lacerate bracts, disk cup-shaped and oblique-edged, at least in sterile flowers; stamens usually many, filaments distinct; stigmas mostly divided, elongated or spreading. Handbook of the Trees of New England Production of leaves on a usually leafless inflorescence.—The development of the bracts of an inflorescence to such an extent that they resemble ordinary leaves is elsewhere alluded to as of common occurrence. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants The free edges always point away from the root of the fibre, just as do the bracts of a fir cone. The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics It is when the big buds swell and send out yellowish green leaves surrounded by large, red bracts. Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919 Flowers small, white or rose-color, 2–5 in a cluster, from a terminal scaly bud; scales or bracts thick and persistent. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Inflorescence appearing with or before the leaves; flowers with entire bracts and one or two small glands; disks wanting; stamens few. Handbook of the Trees of New England The occurrence of coloured bracts, as in Poinsettia, Bougainvillea, &c., is very common under natural conditions, and need not here be further alluded to. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants It differs botanically from all other parsleys in having no bracts, but three narrow leaves at the base of each umbel. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure The bracts soon fall, but the leaves turn a rich green and are attractive until early fall, when they are sometimes yellow, and sometimes drop without any marked coloring. Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919 Plant inodorous, 1-flowered; calyx of 2–4 irregular scales or bracts; anthers transverse, opening equally by 2 chinks; style short and thick. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Sterile catkins 1-3 inches long, fertile at first about the same length, gradually elongating; bracts cut into several lanceolate or linear divisions, silky-hairy; stamens about 10; anthers red: ovary short-stalked; stigmas two, 2-lobed, red. Handbook of the Trees of New England Multiplication of bracts at the expense of the other parts of the flower. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants The bracts of Hemlock, at the base of the umbels, go only half way round the stem. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure The flower stems are 9in. high, stout, and covered with a mealy dust, thickest near the top and amongst the small bracts. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. Involucral bracts imbricated in 2 or more rows, the outer shorter. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z A small, smooth nut, enclosed in the distended bract; the aggregated fruit resembling a cluster of hops. Handbook of the Trees of New England The lower part of the bract forms a sheath which encloses the ovary. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants In the garden the chrysanthemums and the loquat trees are still in flower; the poinsettias put forth their showy scarlet bracts and the roses and violets begin to produce their fragrant flowers. A Bird Calendar for Northern India The flowers are 2in. to 3in. across, petals long, narrow, wavy, and reflexed; these are well held together by the five-parted calyx, further supported by a bract of two small but stout leaves. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. Flowers in simple or clustered naked umbel-like corymbs; pedicels from the axils of small and firm foliaceous persistent bracts; calyx smaller than the pod, persistent; leaves and branches glabrous, or nearly so. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Fruit.—In terminal catkins made conspicuous by the pale green, much enlarged, and leaf-like 3-lobed bracts, each bract subtending a dark-colored, sessile, striate nutlet. Handbook of the Trees of New England In the monstrous fruit the axis is prolonged, and forms a kind of raceme or catkin, surrounded at the base by numerous bracts, as in many Amentaceæ. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Tall torches touched with the crimson of the sunset sky are made of the shell-bark hickory whose inner bud scales enlarge into enormous, leathery bracts, often crimsoning into rare brilliance. Some Spring Days in Iowa From the slightly creeping roots, the perennial stems are produced separately, forming compact colonies of bright foliage, topped with its lively bracts. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. Otherwise nearly as Calamintha.—Clusters few-flowered, loose, one-sided, with few and mostly ovate bracts resembling the leaves. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z In cymes from the season's growth; flowers white, 3/4 inch broad, ill-smelling; calyx lobes 5, often incised, pubescent; petals roundish; stamens indefinite, styles 3-5; flower stems pubescent; bracts glandular. Handbook of the Trees of New England Branched spike and leafy bracts of the same 110 56. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants A favourite annual variety is Blue Beard, growing eighteen inches high and presenting long spikes of bright purple bracts. The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition They have very short pedicels, and the whorl is supported by a bract of stem-clasping leaves, cupped, and variously shaped, as ovate and beaked; there are also supplementary bracteoles. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. Stamens 4, ascending under the upper lip, the lower pair shorter; anthers approximate by pairs, the cells divergent.—Whorls many-flowered, mostly spiked or capitate, and with awn-toothed or fringed leafy bracts. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Foliage very abundant, green when fully grown, almost impervious to sunlight; the small creamy flowers in numerous clusters; the pale, odd-shaped bracts and pea-like fruit conspicuous among the leaves till late autumn. Handbook of the Trees of New England Union of the leaf or bract with the flower-stalk is not uncommon. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants To the genus Thea, which belongs to the order Ternstræmiaceæ, the following characters have been ascribed: calyx persistent, without bracts, five-leaved, leaflets imbricated and generally of the same size. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. The bracts are tinted with purple, and they are more bent down the stems; the latter, too, are only half as thick and of a dark brown colour. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. Utricle rather fleshy, remaining closed or bursting irregularly; no spines; bracts inconspicuous. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Many flowers from the axil of a bract; no bractioles interspersed, hence we may expect racemose or spicate partial inflorescences. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries The centre of these flowers is occupied by a two to five-celled pistil, between the carpels of which, not unfrequently, the stem of the plant projects, bearing on its sides bracts and rudimentary flowers. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants These, and such undeveloping leaves, wherever they occur, are called 'bracts' by botanists, a good word, from the Latin 'bractea,' meaning a piece of metal plate, so thin as to crackle. Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers The branches are useful in a cut state; the slender spikelets, with their pale green and brown tinted bracts, are very pretty by gas light, and they keep well for a long time in water. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. Staminate calyx of 5 thin oblong mucronate-tipped sepals, longer than the bracts; stamens 5, the anther-cells united only at the middle. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Banana bud Page 90 The bud is wrapped or folded within a number of bracts. A Little Book of Filipino Riddles Both terms are open to the objection that they do not clearly enable us to distinguish prolification occurring within the flower from a similar state originating outside the flower, within the bracts of the inflorescence. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Now and then a tall, green stalk of the columbine could be seen, and occasionally a wooly circle of bracts on the stem of a late anemone. Buffalo Roost Except where it is terminal it arises, like the leaf-shoot, in the axil of a leaf, which is then known as a bract. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Stipules, bracts, and bractlets striate, the latter longer than the calyx. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The tube is uniformly green, except that the scale-like bracts are edged with long, blackish, silky hairs. Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation In Bouchea hyderabadensis I have seen the inflorescence more than usually branched and covered with little tufts of bracts, without a trace of true flower. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Nature herself seems a little ashamed of a law so monstrous, billions of summers, and now the old game again without a new bract or sepal. Ralph Waldo Emerson It bears elegant spikes of white flowers from May onwards, followed by red bracts in September, and is readily propagated by seeds. Gardening for the Million Leaves sprinkled with resinous dots, slightly heart-shaped, sharply 3–5-lobed, doubly serrate; racemes drooping, downy; bracts longer than the pedicels; flowers large, whitish; calyx tubular-bell-shaped, smooth; fruit round-ovoid, black, smooth.—Woods, The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z They are bold, handsome plants, with stately spikes, 2 to 3 ft. high, of flowers with spiny bracts. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 The stamens of the lower division were serially continuous with the bracts above. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Stem: 6 in. to 2 ft. tall, with several pointed, wrapping bracts. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Poinsettia Pulcherrima.—A stove evergreen shrub which produces lovely crimson bracts in the winter. Gardening for the Million Seed suspended.—Perennial herbs, with interruptedly pinnate leaves, and yellow flowers in slender spiked racemes; bracts 3-cleft. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Or, in other words, that the bracts must have been lost during the original evolution of the whole family. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation In a terminal peloriated flower of aconite, described by this naturalist, the flower was removed so far from the nearest bracts that all its parts had the chance of growing regularly. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Usually three buds nod from between a pair of bracts, the lower one of which may be twice the length of the upper one; but only one flower opens at a time. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing The entire plant--flowers, bracts, stem, scales, and roots--is fiery red. The Yosemite This is of herbaceous growth, and remarkable for the large cream-coloured flower bracts, and showy red fruit. Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs This conclusion being accepted, the accidental re-apparition of bracts within the family must be considered as a case of systematic atavism, quite analogous to the re-appearance of the scapes in the acaulescent primrose. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation This change is frequently associated with a more or less foliaceous condition of the bracts, which, indeed, may be seen to be serially continuous, both above and below, with the ordinary leaves. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Leaves: Oval, large, sheathing the stem below; smaller, lance-shaped ones higher up bracts above. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing The scales and bracts are tinged with red and the seed-wings are purple with bright iridescence. The Yosemite An evergreen shrub, with oblong, light green leaves and terminal inconspicuous greenish flowers, surrounded by an involucre of four large, pinky-yellow bracts. Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs Each flower-stalk of their long racemes is situated in the aril of such a bract, and the peculiarity is quite a natural one, corresponding exactly to what is seen in the inflorescence of other families. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Petaloid coloration of the ordinary leaves, or of the bracts, is mentioned under the chapter relating to colour. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants From the midst of this whorl comes a cluster of minute greenish florets, encircled by four to six large, showy, white petal-like bracts, quite like a small edition of the Flowering Dogwood blossom. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing In the plant, the eye or germinative point opens to a leaf, then to another leaf, with a power of transforming the leaf into radicle, stamen, pistil, petal, bract, sepal, or seed. Representative Men The flower bracts are of large size, often 6 inches across, the individual bracts being broad and white, and fully 2-1/2 inches long. Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs In this variety the flower is suppressed and this loss is attended by a corresponding increase of the number of the pairs of bracts. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation In some of these cases the increase in the number of bracts is attended by a corresponding suppression in the other parts of the flower. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Oswego Tea; Bee Balm; Indian's Plume; Fragrant Balm; Mountain Mint Monarda didyma Flowers—Scarlet, clustered in a solitary, terminal, rounded head of dark-red calices, with leafy bracts below it. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing On the plains I found two new species of Sida; and, on the tea-trees, a new form of Loranthus, with flowers in threes on a broad leafy bract, scarcely distinguishable from the real leaves. Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 Portion of a section, showing the large sporangia in their natural position, and each supported by its bract or scale. c. The Student's Elements of Geology The spikes and flowers are those of the _lamarckianav, but the bracts are narrower. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation The appearance is due to the multiplication of the bracts and the suppression of the other parts of the flower. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Leaves: Aromatic, opposite, dark green, oval to oblong lance-shaped, sharply saw-edged, of ten hairy beneath, petioled; upper leaves and bracts often red. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Calyx a 5-toothed oblong bell, swollen and remaining open in fruit, held up by lance-shaped bracts. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors Near the summit, above two little bracts, it divides into three branches. The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants The flowering spikes of the second year bear long leaf-like bracts under the first few flowers, but those arising later are much shorter. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Ordinary cabbages are perhaps the best known instance, and any unusual abundance of nourishment, or anomalous cause of growth seems to be liable to incite the development of bracts. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Gorgeous, glowing scarlet heads of Bee Balm arrest the dullest eye, bracts and upper leaves often taking on blood-red color, too, as if it had dripped from the lacerated flowers. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing The leaves, which resemble grayish-green shining grass-blades, arranged alternately up the rigid stem, and diminishing in size near the top until they become mere bracts among the flowers, enable us to name the plant. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors Connected with these atavistic bracts is a feature of minor importance, which however, by its almost universal accompaniment of the bracts, deserves our attention, as it is indicative of another latent character. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation The terminal spikes themselves were reduced to naked spindles, without branches, without flowers and even almost without bracts. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation As a rule, the bracts are grown together with their axillary flower-stalk. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Leaves: Opposite, lance-shaped, saw-edged, on slender petioles; aromatic; bracts and upper leaves whitish or the color of flower. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Leaves: Aromatic, opposite, dark green, oval to oblong lance-shaped, sharply saw-edged, often hairy beneath, petioled; upper leaves and bracts often red. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors Aroids sometimes produce long bracts from various places on their spadix, as may be seen in the cultivated greenhouse species, Anthurium scherzerianum. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation The scapes themselves are of varying length, often very short, and seldom long, and their umbels display the involucre of bracts in a manner quite analogous to that of the Primula officinalis and P. elatior. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Other instances could be given proving that bracts and stipules, when systematically lacking, are liable to reappear as anomalies. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Thoreau, who objected to this name, thought flame flower a better one, the name the Indians gave to Oswego Tea; but here the floral bracts, not the flowers themselves, are on fire. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Thoreau, who objected to this name, thought flame flower a better one, the name the Indians gave to Oswego tea; but here the floral bracts, not the flowers themselves, are on fire. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors In the dandelion the bracts of the involucre give the best characters. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation A second example is afforded by the bracts of the crucifers. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation This malformation results in square spikes or somewhat elongated heads consisting only of the greenish bracts. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Leaves: Compounded of 3 oblong leaflets, the central one largest; upper leaves nearly seated on stem; bracts, conspicuous before flowering, early falling off. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors In the painted cup the bracts, which enfold the insignificant yellowish cloistered flowers like a cape, render them great service in attracting the ruby-throated hummingbird by donning his favorite color. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors From the midst of this whorl comes a cluster of minute greenish florets, encircled by four to six large, showy, white petal-like bracts, quite like a small edition of the flowering dogwood blossom. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors On one hand, bracts may be met with in a few stray species, assuming the rank of a specific character. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation In time its equally useless leaves dwindle to bracts, or disappear. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors Side sepals free, the upper ones arching, and united with petals; the oblong, spreading lip crinkle-edged, and bearing minute, hairy callosities at bases Stem: 6 in. to 2 ft. tall, with several pointed, wrapping bracts. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors Gorgeous, glowing scarlet heads of bee balm arrest the dullest eye, bracts and upper leaves often taking on blood-red color, too, as if it had dripped from the lacerated flowers. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors Scape: Slender, 4 to 12 in. high, with narrow, blade-like bracts above. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors In fact, its bracts are found so often as to be considered by some authors as of quite normal occurrence. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation The flowers are made to assume their definite position," says Professor W. W. Bailey in the "Botanical Gazette," "by friction of the pedicels against the subtending bracts. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors Leaves: Opposite, lance-shaped, saw-edged, on slender petioles, aromatic, bracts and upper leaves whitish or the color of flower. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors Usually three buds nod from between a pair of bracts, the lower one of which may be twice the length of the upper one but only one flower opens at a time. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors Staminate flowers scattered over inner surface of involucre, each composed of a single stamen on a thread-like pedicel with a rudimentary calyx or tiny bract below it. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors Besides these rare cases there are quite a number of cruciferous species on record, which have been observed to bear bracts. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Calyx persistent in fruit, deeply 5-cleft, with 5 bracts between the divisions; 5 petals; stamens and pistils numerous, the latter inserted on a cushion-like receptacle becoming fleshy in fruit. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors The upper leaves are reduced to small flat bracts; the next are linear; and the lower ones, which approach a heart shape, are rough on both sides, and may be five or six inches long. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors Leaves: Oval, large, sheathing the stem below; smaller, lance-shaped ones higher up; bracts above. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors |
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