Pappus very deciduous, of 2 thin chaffy scales on the principal angles, and sometimes 2 or more small intermediate scales.
Taraxacum, but the soft pappus reddish or rusty-color, and surrounded at base by a soft-villous ring.
Characters as in Kuhnia; involucral scales more numerous, and the bristles of the pappus merely scabrous or at the most barbellate or subplumose; leaves often all opposite.
Pappus a circle of thin chaffy scales or short chaffy bristles.
Pappus of the ray minute, coroniform; of the disk-flowers of almost bristle-like scales, more or less dilated and united at base.
Urospermum Dalechampii) of Southern Europe; -- so called from the conspicuouspappus of the achenes.
De Candolle[256] figures a curious instance wherein the pappus of Podospermum laciniatum was replaced by five linear, foliaceous lobes.
The common groundsel (Senecio vulgaris) is especially liable to this form of enlargement of the pistil, either in association with a leafy condition of the pappus or without any such change.
The Atellan was of Italian origin and contained four stock characters, Pappus the old man or pantaloon, Dossennus the wise man, corresponding to the dottore of modern Italian popular comedy, Bucco the clown, and Maccus the fool.
Maccus appeared as a young girl, as a soldier, as an innkeeper; Pappus became engaged to be married; Bucco turned gladiator; and in the rough and tumble of these old friends the Roman mob found rich food for laughter.
Among the names of the Atellanes of Pomponius we find Pappus Agricola, and among those of Novius, Pappus Praeteritus.
This fact, Pappus tells us, was known to Apollonius.
The proposition relating to the exterior angle was recognized by Pappus of Alexandria.
At the close of the third century Pappus of Alexandria (295 A.
The first makes the Pythagorean Theorem a special case of a proposition due to Pappus (fourth century A.
Pappus took the place of pantaloon, and was the general butt.
It may have been moved by water, for Pappus speaks in one place of "those who understand the making of spheres and produce a model of the heavens by means of the regular circular motion of water".
Pappus says that in this work Archimedes proved that "greater circles overpower lesser circles when they rotate about the same centre".
The Goldfinch often lines her nest with the softpappus of the Coltsfoot.
Each plant is named "Senecio" because of the grey woolly pappus of its seeds, which resemble the silvered hair of old age.
These are compact little bundles, at first of a dull yellow colour, until presently the florets fall off and leave the white woolly pappus of the seeds collected together, somewhat resembling the hoary hairs of age.
The flower is epigynous; the calyx is sometimes absent, or is represented by a rim on the top of the ovary, or takes the form of hairs or bristles which enlarge in the fruiting stage to form the pappus by means of which the seed is dispersed.
Frequently there is a hairy or silky pappus forming a tuft of hairs, as in thistle or coltsfoot, or a parachute-like structure as in dandelion; these render the fruit sufficiently light to be carried by the wind.
In Bidens the pappus consists of two or more stiff-barbed bristles which cause the fruit to cling to the coats of animals.
Pappus of Alexandria, in his Mathematical Collection, says that Euclid was a man of mild and inoffensive temperament, unpretending, and kind to all genuine students of mathematics.
Plumose, feathery; when any slender body (such as a bristle of a pappus or a style) is beset with hairs along its sides, like the plume of a feather.
Of Sow-Thistle, with its pappus of delicate downy hairs.
Barbellate, said of the bristles of the pappus of some Compositae when beset with short, stiff hairs, longer than when denticulate, but shorter than when plumose.
Of Sneezeweed (Helenium), with itspappus of five scales.
Of the Dandelion, itspappus raised on a long beak.
Particularly beautiful is its silvery seed-ball, thepappus consisting of about a dozen hairlike bristles inside a ring of small oblong scales, on which the seed sails away.
It is said to take its name from senex = an old man, in reference to the white hairs on many species; or, more likely, to the silky pappus that soon makes the fertile disks hoary headed.
Staminate and pistillate clusters on different shrubs; the former almost round at first, the latter conspicuous only when seeding; then their pappus is white, and about 1/3 in.
It will be seen by the above enumeration, that in many plants belonging to this division, the pappus is entirely wanting, and in others it will be found to assume a different form to that which it bears in the other tribes.
The florets are also furnished with what may be called a double calyx, the limb of the inner part being cut into long teeth, and resembling the pappus of the Compositae.
In this plant the pappus is awl-shaped, and deciduous; and the receptacle, which is broad and somewhat convex, is paleaceous.
The pappus in this genus is very short, and it is scaly rather than feathery.
The ovary of each floret contains only one seed; and the fruit, which is called an achenium, retains the pappus when ripe, and falls without opening.
It will be observed that in all these examples, as indeed, in all the flowers belonging to the order, that the pappus (b, in figs.
The lettuce has yellow blossoms, and a seed prolonged into a long beak, to whose tip the feathery pappus is attached.
The mulgedium has dull bluish flowers, and itspappus is attached to the seed by a hardly perceptible elongation.
The same year Fabricius and Pappus became censors; and among others whose names they erased from the lists of the knights and the senators was Rufinus, though he had served as dictator and had twice been consul.
But learning that Fabricius andPappus had been chosen consuls and had arrived in camp, he was not constant in the same intention.
Pappus of an inner row of bristles and an outer row of short scales; heads about 3 cm.
The structure of the pappus is best observed in the ripe fruit.
Pappus of hairs; heads in flat-topped clusters or slender spikes --80.
Pappus none, or minute and not of hairs (summer and autumn) --210.
Leaves dissected or deeply lobed or pinnatifid; pappus never capillary; rays white to pink (3-10 dm.
Rays short and inconspicuous, barely longer than thepappus (1-5 dm.
While some had dead and decayed leaves instead of fine strips of bark, others contained the remains of old cocoons, or the pappus of composite plants.
The outside is formed of grasses and rushes, very neatly and intricately interwoven, and shows here and there a head of dried pappus plucked from some species of hawkweed.
Pappus gives lemmas "to the seventh and eighth books" under that one heading, as well as by the statement of Apollonius himself that the use of the seventh book was illustrated by the problems solved in the eighth.
Pappus gives somewhat full particulars of the propositions, and restorations were attempted by P.
Sometimes all the pappus disappeared, and sometimes they didn't, and so she never reached a decided conclusion.
If she blew every one of the pappus off at one breath, he loved her; if she didn't, he didn't love her.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pappus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
