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arge genus of plants of the order Geraniaceæ, differing from Geranium in having a spurred calyx and an irregular corolla.

The calyx of a crinoid. Pelvis of the kidney (Anat.), the basinlike cavity into which the ureter expands as it joins the kidney.

A dry fruit composed of five carpels, which are covered by an epigynous calyx and separate at maturity.

The leaves of a flower generally, especially when the calyx and corolla are not readily distinguished.

Having the ovary free, but the petals and stamens borne on the calyx; -- said of flower such as that of the cherry or peach.

ometimes fall off or are absorbed; permanent; as, persistent teeth or gills; a persistent calyx; -- opposed to deciduous, and caducous.

furnished with an air sac, or float, and a series of nectocalyces. See Illust. under Nectocalyx.

ial herbs, with opposite linear leaves, and handsome five- petaled flowers with a tubular calyx.

Many-leaved; as, a polyphyllous calyx or perianth.

r bony carpels inclosed in an adherent fleshy mass, which is partly receptacle and partly calyx, as an apple, quince, or pear.

Having the leaves of a pentamerous calyx or corolla so imbricated that two are exterior, two are interior, and the other has one edge exterior and one interior; as, quincuncial æstivation. Quincuncial phyllotaxy (Bot.), an arrangement of five leaves in a spiral, each leaf two fifths of a circle from the next.…

Radial plates in the calyx of a crinoid.

-flowered herb (Rhinanthus Crista- galli), the ripe seeds of which rattle in the inflated calyx.

vaceous plant (Hibiscus Sabdariffa) cultivated in the east and West Indies for its fleshy calyxes, which are used for making tarts and jelly and an acid drink.

Any small seedlike fruit, though it may consist of a pericarp, or even a calyx, as well as the seed proper; as, parsnip seed; thistle seed. And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself. Gen. i. 11.

A leaf or division of the calyx.

Like a sepal, or a division of a calyx.

Six-cleft; as, a sexfid calyx or nectary.

Any plant of the labiate genus Scutellaria, the calyx of whose flower appears, when inverted, like a helmet with the visor raised.

A cavity in the primary nectocalyx of certain Siphonophora. See Illust. under Nectocalyx.