By the end of this month, most of the species had ripened their seeds, but undecayed, still seemed to be in bloom from the numerous corolla-like involucres and whorls of chaffy scales of the composite.

In most plants the corolla or calyx is the part which attains the highest color, and is the most attractive; in many it is the seed-vessel or fruit; in others, as the Red Maple, the leaves; and in others still it is the very culm itself which is the principal flower or blooming part.

Are you tired of my trivial personalities,those splashes and streaks of sentiment, sometimes perhaps of sentimentality, which you may see when I show you my heart's corolla as if it were a tulip?

In the summer of 1818 he entered Dr. Butler's great school in Shrewsbury, well known to the amateur makers of Latin verse by the volume entitled "Sabrinae Corolla."

" Petrarch's Laura made him so famous, Astrophel's Stella, and Jovianus Pontanus' mistress was the cause of his roses, violets, lilies, nequitiae, blanditiae, joci, decor, nardus, ver, corolla, thus, Mars, Pallas, Venus, Charis, crocum, Laurus, unguentem, costum, lachrymae, myrrha, musae, &c. and the rest of his poems; why are Italians at this day generally so good poets and painters?

Two kinds there are,one like the tiger-lily of the gardens, the petals curled back and showing the whole leopard-spotted corolla,the other bell-shaped, rarer, and growing one only on a stalk.

The common bind-weed of our hedges may be taken as the representative of this very natural tribe of plants, distinguished by their twining habit, and by the peculiar plaited manner in which the corolla is folded in the bud." "182.

Nor is it, perhaps, a mere fancy to imagine that the corolla of an open rose suggested to Botticelli's mind the composition of his best-known picture, the circular "Coronation of the Virgin" in the Uffizzi.

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" "There were three petals to the corolla and three sepals to the calyx.

"The pretty part of the flower is the corolla which means 'little crown,' and each of its parts is called a petal.

The solitary ladies stretched out on a chaise-longue, book in hand, upon seeing him would arrange the corolla of their petticoats, hiding their legs with so much precipitation that it always left them more uncovered; then fixing upon him a languishing glance, they would begin a dialogue always in the same way.

The nettles of the sea spread out their stinging threads by the thousands, discharging a venom that stupefies the victim and makes him fall into their corolla.

Below these transparent and ethereal forms that burn whatever they touch, venturing to capture prey much larger than themselves, were grouped as in gardens the so-called "flower of blood," the red coral, and especially the star-fish, forming with their corolla an orange-colored ring.

The African marigold indicates rain, if the corolla is closed after seven or eight in the morning.

YELLOW ANCHUSA, or BLUE-FLOWERED BUGLOSS.The juice of the corolla gives out to acids a beautiful green.

PASQUE-FLOWER.The corolla, a green tincture.

COMMON MARIGOLD.The radius of the corolla, if bruised, affords a fine orange.

The corolla dried and reduced to powder will also afford a yellow pigment.

MARSH-MARIGOLD.The juice of the corolla, with alum, gives a yellow.

ROUND-LEAVED BELL-FLOWER.A blue pigment is made from the corolla; with the addition of alum it produces a green colour.

radius of the corolla, prepared with an acid, affords a fine rose-coloured tint.

BLUE-BOTTLE.The juice of the corolla gives out a fine blue colour.

GERMAN IRIS.The juice of the corolla treated with alum makes a good permanent green ink.

Tiring of this, he chewed the grass stems, and sucked the nectar from the corolla of wild honeysuckles.