scarious

Each female catkin has a separate peduncle, charged with reddish, scarious, lanceolate scales, and is surrounded at its base with a double row of the same scales, which served to envelop it before it expanded; its form is perfectly oval, and its total length about half an inch.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885 Various

It consists of aerial branches and underground rhizomiferous stems, bearing thick fibrous roots and numerous buds covered by scarious sheaths.

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

In some instances the assumption of a scale-like form by any organ is attended by a change in texture, the organs becoming dry and scarious, or fleshy.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

Ligule the thin, scarious projection found at the top of the leaf sheath where it joins the blade in grasses, 3.

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

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.

The Genus Pinus George Russell Shaw 1892

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.

The Genus Pinus George Russell Shaw 1892

The summer-shoot may be recognized, during growth, by its green, not scarious bracts and, at the end of the season, by the imperfect growth of its wood and foliage (fig. 14).

The Genus Pinus George Russell Shaw 1892

The winter-bud is an aggregate of minute buds, each concealed in the axil of a primary leaf converted into a scarious, more or less fimbriate, bud-scale.

The Genus Pinus George Russell Shaw 1892

Common calyx cylindrical, 2 circles of oval, scarious leaflets around its border, 11 hermaphrodite disk-flowers and about 5 pistillate ray-flowers.

The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891

However, over the course of the subsequent winter months, bracts and sepals become scarious, drying to a light brown.

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