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CALYCISTE

Volume 6 · 53 words · 1860 Edition

the name given by Linnaeus to those botanists who have arranged all vegetables from the different species, structure, &c. of the calyx or flower-cup. The only systems of this kind are the Character Plantarum Novus, by Magdolinus, published in 1720; and Linnaeus's Methodus Calycinae, published in his Classes Plantarum, at Leyden, in 1738.