The bracts of spring-shoots are the scarious bud-scales of the previous winter; but the bracts of summer-shoots have the form and green color of the primary leaf.
With the permanent appearance of the secondary leaves the green primaries disappear and their place is taken by bud-scales, which in the spring and summer persist as scarious bracts, each subtending a fascicle of secondary leaves.
Ligule the thin, scarious projection found at the top of the leaf sheath where it joins the blade in grasses, 3.
It consists of aerial branches and underground rhizomiferous stems, bearing thick fibrous roots and numerous buds covered by scarious sheaths.
This plant is white and ghostlike throughout, has stems a foot or two high, but no leaves--only three to five scarious sheathing bracts.
Many; closely imbricated; merging into the numerous, oblong, scarious petals; sometimes nerved with red.
One-flowered; one or two inches long; jointed in the middle, with a whorl of five to seven scariousbracts at the joint.
The thin and scarious projection from the upper end of the sheath of leaf of grass.
Achenes flat, obovate, wingless, tardily deciduous with the attached scale and chaff; pappus a firm scarious hispid crown, more or less lobed.
Calyx 5-cleft, with the concave lobes strongly keeled, enclosing the depressed fruit, at length appendaged with a broad and continuous horizontal scarious wing.
Scales of the broad and flat involucre imbricated, with scarious margins.
Flowers dioecious or polygamous, collected in terminal heads, each in the axil of a scaly bract, and with 5 or 6 thin and scarious imbricated bractlets, but no proper calyx.
A strap-shaped corolla, as in the ray-flowers of Compositae; a thin scarious projection from the summit of the sheath in Grasses.
Other species of Helichrysum and species of allied genera with scarious heads of flowers are also known as "everlastings.
Buds broadly ovoid, obtuse; bud-scales not scarious on the margins; nut not white-downy at the apex.
Lateral buds widely divergent; bud-scales scarious on the margins; lowermost branches of trees growing in the open not drooping nearly to the ground.
Buds conical, acute; bud-scales scariouson the margins; nut white-downy at the apex.
Lateral buds more or less appressed; bud-scales not scarious on the margins; lowermost branches of trees growing in the open drooping nearly to the ground.
Winter-buds 1/8' long, acute, with narrow purple apiculate scales scarious on the margins and covered by a glaucous bloom.
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