Chaffy Scales

Some articles on chaffy scales:

Glossary Of Botanical Terms - P
... Chaffy scales on the receptacles of many Asteraceae ... Chaffy scales on the stipe of many ferns ... paleate bearing paleae or chaffy scales, as in description of the receptacle of a capitulum of a plant in the Asteraceae ...

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    “Love once
    Tipped the scales but now is shadowed, invisible,
    Though mysteriously present, around somewhere.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

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