Leaves lanceolate to oblong; flower-clusters equaling or exceeding the subtending bract =Three-seeded Mercury, Acalypha gracilens.
Flower-stalk with a single bract near the middle =Bladderwort, Utricularia resupinata.
A large bract or pair of bracts enclosing a flower-cluster.
A bract at the base of each flower =Stickseed, Lappula echinata.
Trécul has described and figured an instance in a species of Prismatocarpus, in which a second flower proceeded from the axil of a bract attached to the side of the fruit of the first flower.
The lower part of the bract forms a sheath which encloses the ovary.
Glume a single scale-like bract with a flower in its axil.
Flowers white, fragrant; spike nodding at the end; bract lanceolate; filaments long and capillary.
Smooth upright plants with the alternate leaves mostly 2-glandular at base; the fertile flowers few at the base of the dense sterile spike (rarely separate); the bract for each cluster with a large gland on each side.
Bract of staminate flower furnished with a pair of bractlets inside; fertile flowers few.
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 upper thin chaffy or hyaline bract which with the glume encloses the flower in Grasses.
That is because the pressure of the air acts on the flat bract just as it does on an aeroplane, and forces it to revolve.
The fruit is like that of most grasses, enclosed in a folded leaf, the bract (or glume), which in these particular cases is produced into a very long fine tapering hair or awn.
The catkins of the alder, for example, hang downwards, so that each little male flower is protected from rain by a little scale or bract above it.
The involucre, extending beyond the nut in a bract like a bottle, is covered with stiff, short hairs.
October, on a bract which is usually tapering to the base.
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.
These are half-sunk in the fleshy substance of the spike and have no sepals or petals, but each has a small, white bract at its base, so that the spike appears to be covered with scales symmetrically arranged.
The racemes consist of many male spikelets with one (rarely two) female spikelets at the base; the rachis is stout above, and the part within the bract enclosing the female spikelet is slender.
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.
The female spikelet is enclosed by a closed bract which finally becomes hardened, and there are four glumes in the spikelet.
This species is easily recognized by the polished bract enclosing the female spikelet.
Fruiting spikelets enclosed in a stony nut-like polishedbract 16.
The base of the bract subtending the leaf-fascicle, non-decurrent or decurrent 3.
The primary leaf--appearing as a scale or bract throughout the life of the tree.
Each flower of the spike is in the axil of a bract resembling the scales of the lower part of the stem; and in some species there is a pair of smaller bracts close to the base of the calyx.
In the Hornbeam it is a three-lobed, persistent bract that performs this function; and the fruits of the Lime are also blown away by the aid of a large bract from the middle of which the fruit-stalk projects.
This is termed a bract, and a flower possessing a bract is said to be bracteate.
The flowers are always imperfect, the male and female blossoms growing on separate shrubs, and both have a small bractat the base.
The flowers, which bloom from June to August, are usually clustered into two dense heads at the tip of each stalk, with a deeply-divided bract at the base of each head.
The flowers are yellowish white, arranged in pairs on terminal and axillary racemes, with a small bractat the foot of each short flower-stalk.
The yellow flowers are arranged in terminal racemes, each flower having a lanceolate bract at the base of its short stalk, and very small bracts at the base of the calyx.
Its bright yellow, starlike flowers form a stiff, terminal raceme, with a bract at the base, and another one above the middle of each pedicel.
They are very small, either separate or in clusters; and each flower or cluster has a dry, sheathing bract at its base.
Two or three flowers grow on the stem, each with a sheathing bract at the base of its stalk.
The bract is remarkably large, and further amplified by numerous small leaves amongst the flowers; all are deeply tinted or veined with purple; the leaves are larger than those of M.
The lowermost glume of each spikelet is often alone developed or conspicuous, and looks like a bract in the axis of which the spikelet sits.
The glume-like bract at the base of the spike, and the general appearance suggest resemblances to certain moor-sedges at first sight.
The cluster of nuts and the bract hang down, dangling about with the least breath of wind, and rattling on the trees because the enlarged base of the stem has all broken loose excepting two slender, woody threads, which still hold fast.
This bract has attracted a good deal of attention, and for a long time everybody wondered what could be its use.
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.
Fruit and bract of basswood well adapted for moving before the wind on the snow.
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.
The less a loaded bract whirls, the faster its descent, and the more a bractwhirls when the wind blows, the farther it is carried.
When torn from the tree the twist in the bract enables the wind to keep the cluster rapidly whirling around, and by whirling it is enabled to remain longer suspended in the air and thus increase the chances for a long journey.
The small clusters of fruit project from a queer bract which remains attached before and after falling from the tree.
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.
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.
A sheathing bract enclosing one or several flowers is called a spathe.
Primary axis; a", secondary axes bearing flowers; b, bract in the axils of which the secondary axes arise.
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.
Specially, the bract is the small leaf or scale from the axil of which a flower or its pedicel proceeds, 73.
An axillary flower stands between the bract or leaf which subtends it and the axis or stem which bears this bract or leaf.
Spathaceous, resembling or furnished with a Spathe, a bractwhich inwraps an inflorescence, 75.
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.
Diagram of Violet-flower; showing the relation of parts to bract and axis.
A, Diagram of Three-lobed Bract from Cone of Cheirostrobus.
Without sepals and petals, sunk in a conical spike; six to eighteen lines long; a small white bract under each flower.
These cones are the inflorescence of the plant, and each downward-pointing little hook is a bract beneath a flower.
Bractlet, a bract of the ultimate grade; as one inserted on a pedicel or ultimate flower-stalk instead of under it.
This is more or less silky pubescent; its wings are not spreading, its leaflets are narrower, and the bractof the umbel is sessile.
Spathe, a large bract or pair of bracts (often colored) inclosing a flower-cluster.
The female flower has a similar bract or scale, and it is also without either petals or calyx; there are two stigmas, each of which is sometimes two-lobed.
The cones stand erect, and the dorsalbract is frequently so large as to appear above the tips of the scales; and the scales themselves are deciduous, falling off when the seeds are ripe, leaving the central rachis bare.
The male flowers have each from one to five or more stamens, with no petals or calyx, but as a substitute a bract or scale, which is entire and hairy, and which has one or more glands at its base.
Winter buds sessile; stamens 2; fruit membranous and hop-like; fruiting bract deciduous at the end of the season when the nut escapes 3 Betula.
Bark of older trees shreddy; staminate aments in winter naked; nut enclosed in a bladder-like bract 2 Ostrya.
Bark of tree smooth; staminate aments in winter enclosed in bud scales; nut exposed, its subtending bract more or less irregularly 3-cleft 1 Carpinus.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bract" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: blade; bract; flag; frond; leaf; leaflet; needle; petal; pile; spear; spire
