bractlets

The acute bractlets are three-lobed, halberd-shaped, sparingly cut-toothed on one side.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 Various

Flowers yellow, in racemes, with caducous bracts and bractlets.

The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891

Calyx 5-cleft, subtended by numerous narrow bractlets; 5 large, veined petals; stamens united into a valvular column bearing anthers on the outside for much of its length; 1 pistil partly enclosed in the column, and with 5 button-tipped stigmatic branches above.

Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891

_Scapes: _ Clustered from a dense mass of fleshy, fibrous roots; 4 to 12 in. tall, scaly bracted, the bractlets resembling the sepals.

Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891

-- In scaly catkins, sterile and fertile on the same tree, appearing with or before the leaves from shoots of the previous season, -- sterile catkins terminal and lateral, formed in summer, erect or inclined in the bud, drooping when expanded in the following spring; sterile flowers usually 3, subtended by a shield-shaped bract with 2 bractlets; each flower consisting of a 1-scaled calyx and 2 anthers, which appear to be 4 from the division of the filaments into two parts, each of which bears an anther cell: fertile catkins erect or inclined at the end of very short leafy branchlets; fertile flowers subtended by a

Handbook of the Trees of New England Lorin Low Dame 1860

CARPINUS BETULUS (Full grown tree at Chiswick, 45 ft. high in 1844).] _Carpinus orientalis_ [2] (the Oriental hornbeam) principally differs from our native species in its smaller size, the lesser leaves with downy petioles, and the green, much-lacerated bractlets.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 Various

FLOWERS -- (a) _female_ -- occurring in 2 to several flowered spikes, with a one-celled ovary, about 1/4 to 1/3 inch long covered with tomentum; flowers rusty to yellowish green in color; stigma with two stigmatic lobes; bracts much longer than the lateral bractlets. (b) _male_ -- in three parted or branched aments, each flower usually containing 4 stamens with a 2 or a 3 lobed calyx; aments 3-4 "long with glandular hairs.

Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953