The pine boughs are the greencalyx to their red petals.
The flowers differ in size and colour, and in one case in structure also, that of the St. Valery apple having a double calyx with ten divisions, and fourteen styles with oblique stigmas, but without stamens or corolla.
Drying changes the red color of the calyx to a dark brown.
The Germans designate cloves as Gewürznägelein, which means spice nails, because of their resemblance to a nail, the corolla forming the head and the calyx tube the nail.
The calyx is about half an inch long, changing from whitish to greenish, and finally to crimson.
The picking of the immature flowers with the red calyx is begun in August and lasts for about four months.
A filament with little triangles of paper was fixed within the calyx of a flower which stood upright.
With the flower-peduncles of Oxalis, epinasty causes them to bend down, so that the ripening pods may be protected by the calyx from the rain.
Trifolium subterraneum: circumnutating movement of peduncle, whilst the flower-head was burying itself in sand, with the reflexed tips of the calyx still visible; traced from 8 A.
To ascertain the nature of the movement of the sub-peduncle, whilst bending downwards, a filament was fixed across the summit of the calyx of a not fully expanded and almost upright flower, nearly in the centre of the head.
The calyx does not open, and within it the delicate transparent corolla remains closely folded over the ovarium.
The calyx of the cleistogamic flowers differs in no respect from that of the perfect ones.
Mr. Meehan has described the extreme variability of the corolla and calyx in this plant, and shows that it is dioecious.
The calyx of these flowers is sometimes formed of only three sepals; two being actually suppressed and not merely coherent with the others; this occurred with five out of thirty flowers which were examined for this purpose.
In the long-styled form the pistil projects about one-third of the length of the calyx beyond its mouth, and is therefore relatively much shorter than in L.
Nor does the calyx differ, but the corolla sometimes differs slightly in shape, owing to the different position of the anthers.
Diagram of the flowers of the three forms of Lythrum salicaria, in their natural position, with the petals and calyx removed on the near side: enlarged six times.
The shell is hardly more subordinate to the germ in the egg, than the calyx to the blossom.
Notice what a different degree and kind of life there is in the calyx and the corolla.
The three leaves of the calyx are called sepals, and the three leaves of the corolla petals.
In other cases both the calyx and corolla may be wanting, the flower consisting of only stamens and carpels.
They are too weak to expand and to reflex the calyx [589] as in the normal flowers of the species.
They lack the high stigma placed above the anthers, which in the lamarckiana, by the vigorous growth of the style, extends the calyx and renders the flower bud thinner and more slender.
It has very short styles, which bring the stigmas only up to the throat of the calyx tube, instead of upwards of the anthers.
I have already mentioned its small corolla, surpassed by the lobes of the calyx and its capacity of self-fertilization.
The margins of the lobes of the calyx curl upwards and outwards as the berry hangs with the apex downward.
Ripe calyx of sage, first as pushed down; second as let loose throwing nutlets.
The numerous large and light fruits, with calyx surrounding them, are each supported on a nodding stem, stiff and elastic, which gives the wind a good chance to sway them about.
Water does not seem to get into the berries even when they are torn open, for when it is poured over the branches it rolls off the calyx roof as freely as from a duck's back.
The perennial phlox in cultivation distributes its seeds in the following manner: when ripe, the calyx becomes dry and paper-like, and spreads out in the form of a saucer.
The calyx of sage, bergamot, and most other mints, remains dry and stiff, as a cup to hold one to four little round nutlets as they ripen.
Notwithstanding the provision made for spreading the seeds by the aid of birds and the wind, the calyx around each shiny seed enables it to float also; when freed from the calyx, it drops at once to the bottom.
Each little fruit of some kinds of Avens has a hook at the apex, while in Agrimony many hooks grow on the outside of the calyx and aid in carrying the two or three seeds within.
Calyx very short, with 4 lanceolate, acuminate sepals, united at the base.
Pistillate: calyx and corolla same as staminate; nectary, 5 glandules on the base of the ovary.
Calyx bluish, long, tubular, somewhat expanded in the middle, divided in 5 parts.
Calyx double, the outer portion divided into 8-9 teeth, the inner into 5 longer parts.
Calyx of 12 sepals arranged in 3 whorls, the inner ones broad and petaloid.
Calyx bell-shaped, 5 acute papyraceous divisions, each bearing a small gland near its base.
Leaves pinnate, with lanceolate, serrated leaflets: flowers destitute of calyx and corolla.
If a fine poison spray covers the surface of the fruit, and especially if it covers the calyx end of the apple inside and out, when the young larvae begin to eat they will surely be killed.
Each female is supposed to lay about fifty eggs which are deposited on both the leaves and fruit, but mostly on the calyx end of the young apples.
Evidently, then, the calyx is a protecting covering for the other parts of the flower until blossoming time.
Above the calyx is a broad spreading corolla which is white or brightly colored and is divided into several distinct parts called petals.
The corolla will be found carefully folded within the calyx and also helps protect the stamens and pistil.
In the cherry, peach and apple, the calyx is a cup or tube with the upper edge divided into lobes.
In the buttercup and mustard the calyxis divided into separate parts called sepals.
The calyx consists of five narrow green sepals, with sharp points: these you can see appearing between the edges of the petals as you look down into the flower.
The calyx is funnel-shaped and has many sharp teeth found its mouth, and there is a fringe of white hairs just inside.
These are sepals, and if you look at the back of the flower you find that the calyx is really a star made up of ten pointed green sepals.
Outside this purple bell there is a calyx made up of four purple pink sepals.
Each flower has a yellow calyx tube, which is divided at the mouth into four parts.
There is a ring of tiny stamens standing out all round the mouth of the calyx tube, and in the very centre of the flower stands a fat seed-vessel, like a beak, which splits open into halves when the seeds are ripe.
The calyx is a green cup with five sharp teeth round the mouth, and it is covered with woolly hairs.
The calyx is swollen like a bladder, and is covered with fine veins, the same as in the Common Campion.
The calyx or green covering of the flower is the part you must notice most closely.
The petals are bright orange-brown, tinged with purple, and outside these brilliant petals there is a calyx of deep purple sepals.
The calyx is a green cup with four deeply pointed teeth at the mouth.
These petals do not meet close together at the bottom; you can see part of the green calyx appearing between each petal.
There are also four much smaller green sepals which stand between each of the larger ones, so the calyx is really a beautiful green star with eight points.
When the petals and the green calyx fall off, this pod grows larger, and as soon as the seeds inside are ripe, it splits open into four strips, and each strip is lined with a row of small brown hairy seeds.
Below the flower there is a deep funnel-shaped calyx in which each pink tube stands, and both it and the flowers are covered with fine soft hairs.
The calyx is large, and of a brighter yellow than the other parts of the flower: it inhabits the summits of the sandstone ridges, along the base of the mountains.
This plant is destitute of the exterior calyx of the genus malva, to which, however, it is more closely allied than to sida, into which it would appear to fall by its artificial characters.
These were short-tubed, the calyx clothed with green scales, and the petals 2 in.
Stem short; calyx tube thin, the throat filled by the stamens; ovary and fruit smooth.
A poppy is a flower which has either four or six petals, and two or more treasuries, united into one; containing a milky, stupifying fluid in its stalks and leaves, and always throwing away its calyxwhen it blossoms.
At first, you see the long lower point of the calyx thought that it was going to be the head of the family, and curls upwards eagerly.
Calyx consisting of an universal involucrum of four leaves, and a partial one, likewise of four ovate leaves, containing eight florets, each of which has an ovate spatha, of a very large size with respect to the rudiments of the fruit.
The calyx consists of four long, coloured, lanceolate leaves, two of which, the upper and lower, are longer and broader than the two lateral ones.
If the application of the poison is delayed until the calyx closes (Fig.
The fruit has a hole or opening from the calyx (which is open) into the core; and the core is roughly double, one series above the other.
The older morphologists interpreted the apple flower to comprise a hollowed calyx (calyx-tube) inside which is the pistil and on the rim of which are the petals and stamens.
Note that the calyx now is closed, the old stamens protruding, a circumstance that will have special significance when we become acquainted with the codlin-moth.
The young apple stands erect, with the calyx open (Fig.
The calyxis tightly closed, although the tips of the sepals are spread widely.
The leaves and twigs are smooth, and the calyx falls away from the fruit, leaving a bare blossom end.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "calyx" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
