If the back part of the tongue be appressed to the pendulous curtain of the palate and uvula; and air from behind be forced between them; the sibilant letter H is produced.
If the point of the tongue be appressedto the forepart of the palate, as in forming the letter T, and air from the mouth be forced between them, the sibilant letter S is produced.
If the lower lip be appressed to the edges of the upper teeth, and air from the mouth be forced between them, the sibilant letter F is formed.
Outer scales of theappressed involucre barely prickly-pointed; heads imperfectly dioecious, small and numerous.
Pubescence more scanty and usually fine and appressed as in n.
Well distinguished by its long or drooping racemes, and the closely appressed rigid scales of the involucre, small rays, etc.
Erect culms and appressed leaves more slender than in the preceding; panicle exserted, very simple and narrow; spikelets smaller, the lower glumes acuminate, little shorter than the cuspidate upper one.
Clothed all over with harsh and rigid appressed short bristles; stems rather slender (1--2 deg.
Pileus= thin, centrally depressed or subinfundibuliform, marked with two or three obscure zones, with a slight appressed silkiness, pale yellow.
Stem equal or slightly tapering upward, stuffed or hollow, smooth or slightly floccose, ringed, bulbous, the ruptured volva either appressed loose or merely forming a narrow margin to the bulb.
Pileus= convex or expanded, dry, clothed with a very minute appressed tomentum, whitish.
Helmholtz rightly dwells upon the fact that the appressed surfaces are usually not perfectly congruent--that they really touch each other in a few points only, the pressure being, therefore, concentrated.
The surface is covered with short, dense, appressed velumen, so that to the eye the surface appears simply dull and rough, but its true nature is readily seen under a glass of low power.
Pileus convex or expanded, dry, clothed with a very minute appressed tomentum, whitish.
Pileus viscid when moist, convex to expanded, in age somewhat depressed; clay color, darker over center, often with appressed clay brown scales with a darker color.
Bark rarely more than 1/4' thick, bright red-brown and broken on the surface into small closely appressed scales.
Bark about 1/16' thick, light red-brown, and broken into thin appressed scales.
Bark thin, smooth, light gray, slightly tinged with red, and covered with minute closely appressed plate-like scales.
Leaflets thin, the petioles and pedicels nearly glabrous or with appressed hairs; fruit conic, the achenes on its surface =Wood Strawberry, Fragaria americana.
Flowers pale yellow, in corymb-like clusters; pods erect and somewhat appressed =Winter Cress, Barbarea stricta.
Spikes numerous, appressed to the axis of the panicle; tall marsh grass =Slough Grass, Spartina michauxiana.
Sheaths without a spreading border, appressed to the stem (Smartweed) --24.
These were quite rigid below and closely appressed to the stem, but above they became looser and curled gracefully about among the vivid red bells.
A deep pit, conspicuously prominent on the outside of the petals, covered within by appressed hairs.
Of six sepals; the outer minute; the inner about five lines long, appressed to the ovary.
Kirkii of New Zealand, in which some branches bear small and appressed leaves, while in others the leaves are much longer and more spreading.
Polycladus cupressinus, a Composite), and some of the cypresses and other conifers with small appressed leaves.
The epidermis of many grasses is studded with short two-celled hairs bent sharply at right-angles; so that the pointed or blunt, hollow or solid, apical portion is appressed to the surface.
Festuca pratensis has its palea as a rule somewhat more acute than Lolium perenne, and the flatter tapering rachilla of the latter is more closely appressed to the palea.
At the junction of the blade with the sheath there is in most cases a delicate membranous upgrowth of the former, more or less appressed to the stem, and called the Ligule (Figs.
Palpi moderately long, porrected or rather ascending, with appressed scales; terminal joint moderate, cylindrical.
Abdomen with clusters of broad outstanding scales along the sides; outstanding scales on the veins of the wing rather narrow, lanceolate; upper side of the thorax and scutellum bearing many appressedlanceolate scales.
Buds small, mostlyappressed near the ends of the shoots, tapering at both ends.
A smaller, more delicate species, with mostly entire leaves and appressed hairs (E.
The chrysalids are elongate, attached at the anal extremity, and held in place by a girdle of silk, but not closely appressed to the surface upon which they have undergone transformation.
The chrysalids are provided with a girdle, are attached at the end of the abdomen, and lie closely appressed to the surface upon which they have undergone transformation.
They are relatively short, thickly clothed with hairs and scales lying closely appressed to the surface.
They lie closely appressed to the surface upon which they are formed, and are held in place by an attachment at the anal extremity, as well as by a slight girdle of silk about the middle.
Short, suspended at the anal extremity, and held in position by a silk girdle, but not closely appressed to the surface upon which pupation has taken place; thickly covered with short, projecting hair.
The chrysalids are, however, never closely appressed to the surface upon which pupation takes place.
The chrysalis is blackish-brown, attached at the anal end, held in place by a girdle, but not closely appressed to the surface on which pupation has taken place, and thickly studded with small projecting hairs.
Leaves awl or scale shaped, and mainly appressed to the stem.
Cones large, erect, solitary, with closely appressed scales; seeds adhering to the base of their lacerated, membranous wings.
The spikelets are closely appressed and each one has four glumes.
It often extends beyond the insertion of the terminal flower and its glume, and then lies hidden appressed to the palea.
Appressed lying flat for the whole length of the part or organ, 59.
The spikelets are oblong, acute, binate, one pedicel being shorter than the other, usually appressed to the rachis and not spreading.
The inflorescence consists of two racemes, closely appressed together on a very slender peduncle; the joints are shorter than the spikelets and with long brown hairs.
Spikelets are narrowly lanceolate, closely appressed and imbricate, 1/6 inch long excluding the awn and very variable.
The panicle is narrow, spike-like, silvery, 3 to 8 inches; branches are short and appressed and the internodes of spikes are short with the tips dilated.
Spikelets are in dissimilar pairs, one globose, sessile and bisexual and the other ovate, pedicelled, neuter with the pedicels adnate to, or closely appressed to the joint of the rachis.
The spikelets are linear-lanceolate, solitary or in distant pairs, glabrous or ciliate, pedicelled and when binate the upper pedicel often longer than the spikelets, usually spreading and not appressed to the rachis.
Branches erect, more or less appressed to the main stem, forming a narrow, spire-like crown.
The name volva is particularly given to that part of the universal veil which remains around the base of the stem, either sheathing it or appressed closely to it, or in torn fragments.
The plant is propagated chiefly by long and slender stolons, bearing appressed rudimentary stalk-bases.
The scales are minute, appressed to the root-stock, and almost filmy in their delicacy.
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