Definitionn. (botany) the whorl of sepals of a flower collectively forming the outer floral envelope or layer of the perianth enclosing and supporting the developing bud
Last update: October 10, 2015
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Similar views were arrived at by Goethe, though by the deductive rather than the inductive method, and were propounded in his famous pamphlet, Versuch die Metamorphose der Pfianzen zu erklren (1790), from which the following is a quotation: The underlying relationship between the various external parts of the plant, such as the leaves, the calyx, the corolla, the stamens, which develop one after the other and, as it were, out of one another has long been generally recognized by investigators, and has iii fact been specially studied; and the operation by which onc and the same organ presents itself to us in various forms has been termed Metamorphosis of Plants. [Please select]
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Calyx: the cap or crown of the mushroom bodies of the procerebrum: see also egg-calyx. [Please select]
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Cauliculus: the larger of the two stalks supporting the calyx of the mushroom body. [Please select]
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The calyx sometimes assumes, either wholly or by stripes, the colour and texture of the corolla. [Please select]
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109; persistency of the coloured calyx in a crossed Polyanthus, i. [Please select]
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Species of Primula in which the calyx is brightly coloured are said (18/92.) [Please select]
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-persistency of the coloured calyx in a crossed polyanthus. [Please select]
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In another flower the whole corolla was bright yellow, but exactly half the calyx was purple. [Please select]
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The moth is flying in May and lays her eggs on the shoots or leaves of apple-trees, more rarely on the fruitlets, into which however the caterpillar always bores by the upper (calyx) end. [Please select]
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So it has been with the fruit of the apple, which consists of the modified calyx and upper part of the flower-stalk. [Please select]
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