|
|
Definition of Scariose
1. a. Thin, dry, membranous, and not green.
Definition of Scariose
1. scarious [adj] - See also: scarious
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scariose
Literary usage of Scariose
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hand-book of Indian Flora: Being a Guide to All the Flowering Plants by Herber Drury (1866)
"... scales obovate, scariose : flowers small, greenish-yellow. ... long-pedicelled:
bracteoles hooded, leafy, exceeding the scariose elliptic scales. ..."
2. The London Journal of Botany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1846)
"... a pair opposite to the corresponding pair of teeth, sometimes with one or two
scariose cells along one side, projecting beyond the lanceolate outline. ..."
3. Supplement to the English Botany of the Late Sir J. E. Smith and Mr. Sowerby by Sir William Jackson Hooker, James Sowerby, William Borrer, John William Salter (1849)
"... rarely 3, leaves, which is tinged more, or less with purple and sheathed with
several brown scariose coats. Leaves spreading, decurved and waved, ..."
4. The British Flower Garden: Containing Coloured Figures and Descriptions of ...by Robert Sweet by Robert Sweet (1838)
"... with a white scariose limb, not unlike paper: tube membranaceous, with 5 green
angles, which terminate in the segments of the limb: limb spreading, ..."
5. The Tourist's Flora: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and by Joseph Woods (1850)
"Sepals acute, scariose on ouc side, exceeding the cloven petals. ... Bat- ington
attributes a scariose margin to the bracts, which I do not find ..."
6. Companion to the Botanical Magazine: Being a Journal, Containing Such by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1836)
"Duby mentions a variety of C. semidecandrum, in which the sepals are scariose at
the tip, (this, with me, is a character of the species,) and another in ..."
7. Flora Devoniensis: Or A Descriptive Catalogue of Plants Growing Wild in the by John Pike Jones, J. F. Kingston (1829)
"(•) Root fibrous ; stem 2-10 inches high, leafy; leaves linear, dilated at the
base, not jointed ; leaves of the perianth pale green, with white scariose ..."
8. A Flora of Shropshire by William Allport Leighton (1841)
"... dark green and slightly hoary with white cottony pubescence, the apex and a
narrow strip of the margins from about the middle scariose and dusky brown, ..."
Other Resources:
