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Definition of Phyllaries
1. phyllary [n] - See also: phyllary
Lexicographical Neighbors of Phyllaries
Literary usage of Phyllaries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Tourist's Flora: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and by Joseph Woods (1850)
"G. Outer phyllaries not of two parte. Sp. 19,20. A. Inner phyllaries ... В.
Inner phyllaries finely acute ; outer a scale with ti leafy appendage. i. ..."
2. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1856)
"Heads racemose, subsessile, ovate, closed in fruit, slightly webbed, phyllaries
equalling or exceeding the florets, subulate, inner row lanceolate, ..."
3. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1856)
"Heads racemose, subsessile, ovate, closed in fruit, slightly webbed, phyllaries
equalling or exceeding the florets, subulate, inner row lanceolate, ..."
4. The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany edited by George Luxford, Edward Newman (1852)
"... stellate down ; phyllaries cuspidate, irregularly imbricated, black in the
centre, with decided, light-green margins; heads cylindrical j flowers bright ..."
5. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1900)
"phyllaries without micro- glands, ... of the phyllaries less in quantity, the
style nearly pure yellow. Mountain banks, hedge-banks, railway and colliery ..."
6. Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club by Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club, Hereford, England, G. H. Jack (1903)
"It is, however, a more slender, delicate plant, with narrower, less deeply dentate
leaves and broader blunter phyllaries. H. rigidum Hartm. var. nov. ..."
7. Transactions of the Botanical Society by Botanical Society of Edinburgh (1850)
"phyllaries with their scarious border pale or narrowly fringed with pale purple.
Radiant florets oblong, shorter in proportion than those of M. inodora, ..."
8. The Flora of Berkshire: Being a Topographical and Historical Account of the by George Claridge Druce (1897)
"Sometimes the phyllaries are much more loosely imbricated than at other times in
both of these forms. The more frequent plant of chalk downs is one with ..."
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