Pyx idant her a (pik"sidanthera)

[NL. (F. A. Michaux, 1803), so called in allusion to the lid-like opening of the anthers; short bell-shaped tube and five flat roundish lobes, five stamens fixed in the notches between the lobes, no staminodes, a three-celled ovary with many ovules, and globose anther-cells which are transversely two-valved and awn pointed at the base. The only species, P. barbulata, is a dwarf and trailing shrubby evergreen, found in sands under pines from New Jersey southward to North Carolina; it is eagerly sought as a highly ornamental early spring-flowering plant, being covered with a profusion of small starry blo oms. It is known as the pine - barren beauty, and flowering mo (which see, under mo 1 ), and also, locally, by contraction of its generic name, as pyxie. It bears crowded awl-shaped dark-green leaves covering the short erect branches, or alternate on the longer creeping ones, and somewhat hairy or bearded near the base, whence the specific name. pyxidate (pik'si-dāt), a. [ cellinidæ. Greek Pyxis of red-figured pottery, 4th century B. C. Pyxinei, Pyxineæ (pik-sin'ē-i, -ē), n. pl. [NL., L. pyxis , πυξίς , a box, + -in- + -ei , -eæ.] A natural order of lichens, comprising those known in the arctic regions as tripe de roc he. The order is characterized by a horizontal foliaceous thal lus, mostly fixed by the center, and an orbicular disk, with the exciple distinct from the thallus, and at first closed. pyxis (pik's is), n.; pl. pyxides (-si-dēz). [L., also puxis, IMG:content-1397.jpg:[graphic] Pyxis a rach no idea. known species, Pyxis a rach no idea, of Madagascar and Mauritius. Its shell is yellow, with broad black bands radiating from the center of the dorsal shields.-8. [ cap.] [NL.] In en tom., a genus of coleopterous insects. Dejean, 1834.-9. In bot.: (a) A seed-ve el, commonly a capsule, with a circumsci ile dehiscence, the top falling away like a lid, as in the common purslane and plantain, and in the fruit known as monkey-pots. See Lecythis, and cut under circumsci ile. (b) The theca of mo es. Also pyxidium. - Pyxis Nautic a, a southern constellation introduced by Lacaille, representing a ship's compa or binnacle. It seems no longer to be in use. pyx-kerchief (piks'kėr"chif), n. Same as pyx cloth.