 | Asa Gray - Botany - 1857 - 264 pages
...the leaves of an inflorescence, more or less different from ordinary leaves. Specially, the bract is the small leaf or scale from the axil of which a flower or its pedicel proceeds ; p. 78 ; and a Bractlet (bracleola) is a bract seated on the pedicel or flower-stalk ; p. 78, fig.... | |
 | Asa Gray - Botany - 1857 - 258 pages
...leaves of an inflorescence, more or less different from ordinary leaves. Specially, the bract is th-; small leaf or scale from the axil of which a flower or its pedicel proceeds ; p. 78 ; and a Bractlet (bracteola) is a bract seated on the pedicel or flower-stalk ; p. 78, fig.... | |
 | Asa Gray - 1868 - 660 pages
...tho leaves of an inflorescence, more or less different from ordinary leaves. Specially, tho bract is the small leaf or scale from the axil of which a flower or its pedicel proceeds : p. 78; and a Bractltt (bracteola) is a bract seated on the pedicel or flower-stalk; p. 78, fig. 15&... | |
 | Asa Gray - Botany - 1869 - 1034 pages
...the leaves of an inflorescence, more or less different from ordinary leaves. Specially, the bract is the small leaf or scale from the axil of which a flower or its pedicel proceeds ; p. 78 ; and a BnctlH (bracteola) is a bract seated on the pedicel or flower-stalk ; p. 78, fig. 156.... | |
 | Maine. Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1870 - 518 pages
...the fruit of certain plants. Biennial : living only two years. Blade : the blade of a leaf. Bract: a small leaf or scale, from the axil of which a flower or its pedicel arises. Brislks : short stiff hairs. Calyx : the exterior leaves of a flower, usually green. Capitate... | |
 | Asa Gray - Botany - 1879 - 1046 pages
...the leaves of an inflorescence, more or less different from ordinary leaves. Specially, the bract is the small leaf or scale from the axil of which a flower or its pedicel proceeds ; p. 78 ; and a Bractlet (bracteola) is a bract seated on the pedicel or flower-stalk; p. 78, fig.... | |
 | Maine. Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1870 - 562 pages
...fruit ofcertain plants. Biennial : living only two years. Blade • the blade of a leaf. Bract : a small leaf or scale, from the axil of which^ a flower or its pedicel arises. Bristles : short stiff hairs. Calyx: the exterior leaves of a flower, usually green. Capitate... | |
 | Joseph Henry Wythe - Botany - 1883 - 110 pages
...twice pinnate, or having two series of leaflets. Bot'any, 8: the science of plants. Bracts, 64 : a small leaf, or scale, from the axil of which a flower or its pedicle proceeds. Bulbs, 61 : a fleshy roundish hody consisting of scales or imperfectly developed... | |
 | Joseph Henry Wythe - Botany - 1883 - 108 pages
...: twice pinnate, or having two series of leaflets. Bot'any, 8: the science of plants. Bracts, 64: a small leaf, or scale, from the axil of which a flower or its pedicle proceeds. Bulbs, 61 : a fleshy roundish body consisting of scales or imperfectly developed... | |
 | John Merle Coulter - Botany - 1885 - 526 pages
...the leaves of an inflorescence, more or less different from ordinary leaves. Specially, the bract is the small leaf or scale from the axil of which a flower or its pedicel proceeds ; and a Bractlet (bracteola) is a bract seated on the pedicel or flower-stalk. Bristles: stiff, sharp... | |
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Bracts, in general, are the leaves of an inflorescence, more or less different from ordinary leaves. Specially, the bract is the small leaf or scale from the axil of which a flower or its pedicel proceeds ; p. 
