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COMPLETUS FLOS

Volume 6 · 52 words · 1823 Edition

in Botany. A flower is said to be complete, which is provided with both the covers, viz. the calyx or flower-cup, and the petals. The term was invented by Vaillant, and is synonymous with calyculatus flos in Linnæus. Berkenhoult erroneously confounds it with the auctus and calyculatus calyx of the same author.