-- This is no discovery of criticism; -- it is a necessity of the human mind; and all nations have felt and obeyed it, in the invention of metre, and measured sounds, as the vehicle and 'involucrum' of poetry -- itself a fellow-growth from the same life, -- even as the bark is to the tree! ❋ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1803)
Said involucrum is composed of numerous small leaves, a distinguishing trait from its nearest relative genus _Rudbeckia_. ❋ John Wood (N/A)
The leaves are triternate, divisions deeply cut and acute; the leaves of the involucrum are stalked, trifid, and deeply cut. ❋ John Wood (N/A)
Tagetes, _Sud Buruk_, is a curious genus, on account of its simple tubular involucrum, very entire and pappus florets, conduplicate in aestivation, all florets faeminine are ligulate; are the folded up ones representations of the males? ❋ William Griffith (N/A)
It belongs to that section of its numerous genus having an involucrum of stalked leaflets. ❋ John Wood (N/A)
The double involucrum, common to the genus, has its upper set of bracteoles rolled outward; they are of a brownish colour; the lower set are green and wheel-shaped during the period of a perfect ray, and they alternate with the upper ones. ❋ John Wood (N/A)
A little later the involucrum becomes developed, and is no unimportant feature. ❋ John Wood (N/A)
The pure white flower -- more than an inch across -- is somewhat distant from the handsome three-leaved involucrum, and is supported by a wiry flower stalk, 3in. to 5in. long; it is about the same length from the root, otherwise the plant is stemless. ❋ John Wood (N/A)
Curious transformation in Carthamus was observed, either affecting the involucrum alone, when those branches that would have become flowers become clavate, covered with very dense aristate leaves, or affecting the florets which become more or less converted in the branches. ❋ William Griffith (N/A)
The flowers are borne at the height of 2ft. to 3ft., and are produced singly on very thick, rigid stalks, long, nearly nude, grooved, furnished with numerous short, bristle-like hairs, and gradually thickening up to the involucrum of the flower. ❋ John Wood (N/A)
The chrysalis felt one day the ray of the sun, which called it to life, broke its involucrum, and it launched forth fearlessly from the darkness of its humble cloister into the luminous spaces of its destiny. ❋ Various (1921)
Nunc senex est in tostrina, nunc iam cultros attinet. ne id quidem, involucrum inicere, voluit, vestem ut ne inquinet. sed utrum strictimne adtonsurum dicam esse an per pectinem, nescio; verum, si frugist, usque admutilabit probe. ❋ Titus Maccius Plautus (1919)
These being prevented from yielding outwardly by the tenacity and weight of the solid involucrum of precipitated and sedimental deposits which overspread them, sustained a pressure out of proportion to their expansive force, and were in consequence proportionately condensed, and by the continuance of the process, where the overlying strata were sufficiently resistant, finally consolidated. ❋ Unknown (1904)
Sometimes the new bone -- which corresponds to the involucrum of an osteomyelitis -- imprisons a sequestrum and prevents its extrusion, in which case one or more sinuses may persist indefinitely. ❋ Alexander Miles (1893)
Now, here the very same Brahman which, in the mantra, had been introduced as the subject of the discussion, is called the tail, the support; while the five involucra, extending from the involucrum of food up to the involucrum of bliss, are merely introduced for the purpose of setting forth the knowledge of Brahman. ❋ George Thibaut (1881)
Hence, numerous openings are made through the involucrum, to permit the escape of the sequestrum. ❋ Ray Vaughn Pierce (1877)
This healing process, by which the involucrum is formed, cannot be completed while the dead portion remains. ❋ Ray Vaughn Pierce (1877)
This clinging quality arises from the bracts of the involucrum being long and stiff, and with hooked tips which attach themselves to every passing object. ❋ Henry Nicholson Ellacombe (1868)
There is a tall upright bush, bearing large yellow trumpet-shaped flowers, springing from the extremities of the branches; the involucrum forms a boat-shaped cup that encircles the flowers from which they seem to spring, something after the manner of the scarlet trumpet - honeysuckle. ❋ Catharine Parr Strickland Traill (1850)
"Is the involucrum open? but then one may see and already distinguish ----" ❋ Alexandre Dumas P��re (1836)
