CALYX

(Lat.), n. m. Ka(ka3)'li2x(lu8x). Gen., cal'ycis. Gr., KaAvf. Fr., calice. Ger., Kelch, Blumenkelch (1st def.). It.,cah'ce. Sp., caliz. 1. The outermost of the whorls of leaflets forming a flower. It is composed of one or more series of metamorphosed leaves (sepals), either united into a tube (monosepalous c., gamosepalous c.) or separate (polysepalous c., dialyse pal ous c.). When the corolla is present, the c. usually differs from it in color and texture, being more or le green and herbaceous, sometimes membranaceous or scarious. In apetalous plants the c. is frequently colored and of a delicate texture, like a corolla. In relation to the ovary, the c. is either inferior (hypogynous), half-inferior (perigynous), or superior (epigynous): in shape it is regular or irregular; and in duration it is either caducous (falling in the beginning of anthesis), deciduous (falling at the completion of anthesis), or persistent (remaining attached to the fruit), in which latter case it is sometimes accrescent (increasing in size after the anthesis is completed). 2. In certain Fungi, the receptacle. 3. In renal anatomy, see CALIX. 4. See OVISAC. [B, 19. 28; L, 221.] C. communis. Fr., calice commun. Of Linnaeus, the involucre of the flower-head in composite plants, which, however, is bracteate and not calycine in character. [B, 121.] Calyces renales. See CALICES of the kidney (under CALIX). Calyces voinitorii. See CALICES vomit or i i (under CALIX). [s. 38]