calyx

• The calyx, which is flat, green, and hairy, is divided into ten parts, called sepals, and there are five petals; the stamens, which are very numerous, and grow out of the calyx, are placed in a crowded ring round the pistil. —  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 462 Volume 18, New Series, November 6, 1852
• The flower has little hooks upon what is called the calyx, and when the petals open they burst the hooks with a snapping noise. —  Chatterbox, 1906
• When the calyx is affixed, it must rest against the back of the rose, and be so neatly moulded over the seed cup, as not to show any division or seam THE MOSS ROSE Beauty and Love. —  The Royal Guide to Wax Flower Modelling
• And the same holds good in cases where the calyx is abnormally leafy. —  Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
• Like most similar specimens, this one bears out the notion that what is called the calyx-tube in roses is really an expansion and dilatation of the top of the flower-stalk Illustration: FIG. —  Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants

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