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Involucred :: Involucred (a.) Having an involucre, as umbels, heads, etc..

Perichaeth :: Perichaeth (n.) The leafy involucre surrounding the fruit stalk of mosses; perichaetium; perichete.

Immortelle :: Immortelle (n.) A plant with a conspicuous, dry, unwithering involucre, as the species of Antennaria, Helichrysum, Gomphrena, etc. See Everlasting..

Helichrysum :: Helichrysum (n.) A genus of composite plants, with shining, commonly white or yellow, or sometimes reddish, radiated involucres, which are often called everlasting flowers..

Involucel :: Involucel (n.) A partial, secondary, or small involucre. See Illust. of Involucre..

Trichomanes :: Trichomanes (n.) Any fern of the genus Trichomanes. The fronds are very delicate and often translucent, and the sporangia are borne on threadlike receptacles rising from the middle of cup-shaped marginal involucres. Several species are common in conservatories; two are native in the United States..

Oak :: Oak (n.) Any tree or shrub of the genus Quercus. The oaks have alternate leaves, often variously lobed, and staminate flowers in catkins. The fruit is a smooth nut, called an acorn, which is more or less inclosed in a scaly involucre called the cup or cupule. There are now recognized about three hundred species, of which nearly fifty occur in the United States, the rest in Europe, Asia, and the other parts of North America, a very few barely reaching the northern parts of South America and Afric

Spathe :: Spathe (n.) A special involucre formed of one leaf and inclosing a spadix, as in aroid plants and palms. See the Note under Bract, and Illust. of Spadix..

Involucre :: Involucre (n.) A whorl or set of bracts around a flower, umbel, or head..

Involucrated :: Involucrated (a.) Having an involucre; involucred.

Involucrum :: Involucrum (n.) See Involucre.

Burr :: Burr (n.) Any rough or prickly envelope of the seeds of plants, whether a pericarp, a persistent calyx, or an involucre, as of the chestnut and burdock. Also, any weed which bears burs..

Gnaphalium :: Gnaphalium (n.) A genus of composite plants with white or colored dry and persistent involucres; a kind of everlasting.

Involucre :: Involucre (n.) A continuous marginal covering of sporangia, in certain ferns, as in the common brake, or the cup-shaped processes of the filmy ferns..

Involucre :: Involucre (n.) The peridium or volva of certain fungi. Called also involucrum.

Perianth :: Perianth (n.) A saclike involucre which incloses the young fruit in most hepatic mosses. See Illust. of Hepatica.

Masterwort :: Masterwort (n.) The Astrantia major, a European umbelliferous plant with a showy colored involucre..

Periclinium :: Periclinium (n.) The involucre which surrounds the common receptacle in composite flowers.

Involucret :: Involucret (n.) An involucel.

Monophyllous :: Monophyllous (a.) One-leaved; composed of a single leaf; as, a monophyllous involucre or calyx..

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