The true Chamomile (Anthemis nobilis) greatly resembles the Chrysanthemum in its flowers; but they are distinguished by having a chaffy receptacle, and the fruit having a membranous margin.
The Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) is another plant destitute of pappus, but with a chaffy receptacle; it is also remarkable for its leaves, which are doubly pinnatifid.
Rootstocks creeping, branched, often covered with chaffy scales, bearing scattered roundish knobs, to which the stipes are attached by a distinct articulation.
Achenes only in the ray, obcompressed, surrounded by a slender callous margin, crowned with the persistent ray-corolla and a pappus of 2 small chaffy scales.
Achenes top-shaped, 5-angled; pappus of 5 or 6 membranaceous and pointed chaffy scales.
Pappus none, or a crown or cup, or of one or two chaffy awns, never capillary, nor of several uniform chaffy scales.
Achenes short, terete; pappus of about 9 chaffy scales, shorter in the ray-flowers.
Pappus a row of chaffy scales dissected into many bristles.
Stalks obscurely articulated some distance from the base; fronds chaffy or smooth, never glandular; indusium divided nearly to the centre into slender hairs which are curled over the sporangia.
Receptacle flat, not chaffy, but beset with shortchaffy bristles.
Achenes slender, 4-angled; pappus a row of chaffy scales dissected into numerous rough bristles.
Stipa pennata) which has a long feathery awn rising from one of thechaffy scales which inclose the grain.
One of the palets or inner chaffy scales of the flowers or spikelets of grasses.
Bracts of the involucre green or colored, but never dry and chaffy --90.
Flowers not subtended individually by dry, membranous, orchaffy scales, and otherwise not agreeing with 3a --5.
These consist typically of a short axis, the rachilla, almost or quite concealed by several chaffy bracts.
They are chaffy throughout, but more especially at the base, with narrow pale ferruginous scales, intermixed with still slenderer paleaceous hairs.
Mixed in with these are smaller and narrower chaffy scales, which also are found along the whole length of the stalk and the rachis.
The fronds stand in a crown or circle, rising from the end of the root-stock, which is made thick and heavy with the chaffy bases of former stalks.
The root-stock is rather stout, ascending or erect; and its apparent thickness is much increased by the persistent bases of stalks, which also give it a dense covering of broad bright-brown chaffy scales.
The wild rice is not the least like the rice which your ladyship has eaten; it is thin, and covered with a lightchaffy husk.
The individual flowers are between chaffy scales, of which several make up each spike.
Then Colonel Packer began to talk with a light, chaffy mind, concerning God, and Christ, and the Scriptures.
The Lord hath since raised up a people to stand for His name and Truth in that town over those chaffy professors.
Yet good service we had for the Lord amongst them; for the life of Christianity and the power of it tormented theirchaffy spirits, and came over them, so that some were reached and convinced; and the Lord's power came over all.
I suspect that it was what Watts-Dunton calls his “chaffy way” more than his championship of the verse-maker which gave offence to his correspondent.
But they was hypocrites and he a very light chaffy man, and the way was too strait for him.
One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, as the Coreopsis, the sunflower, etc.
Thin brownish chaffy scales upon the leaves or young shoots of some plants, especially upon the petioles and leaves of ferns.
One of the pelets or inner chaffy scales of the flowers or spikelets of grasses.
Stipa pennata) which has a long feathery awn rising from one of the chaffy scales which inclose the grain.
At the top of every branch stand divers small, short scaly, orchaffy heads out of which come forth small whitish yellow threads, like to those of the Plantain herbs, which are the bloomings of flowers.
Stipa pennata) which has a long feathery awn rising from one of thechaffy scales which inclose the grain.
Defn: Thin brownish chaffy scales upon the leaves or young shoots of some plants, especially upon the petioles and leaves of ferns.
Defn: One of the pelets or innerchaffy scales of the flowers or spikelets of grasses.
Description of the Rootstock--These ferns have stout ascending or erect chaffy rootstocks, or rhizomes as they are technically known.
The chairman excited enthusiasm by announcement of a song by Mr. Sam Coppock--known to the company as 'Chaffy Sem.
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