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1871 C. King Rep. Geol. Explor. 40th Parallel V. 382 (note) Lower flower with a delicate very narrowly linear scale..exceeding the upper palet.

1880 A. Gray Struct. Bot. v. 142 Palets,..also called Chaff, are diminutive or chaff-like bracts or bractlets on the axis (or receptacle) and among the flowers of a dense inflorescence, such as a head of Compositæ..; and the name is also given to an inner series of the Glumes of Grasses.

1885 J. M. Coulter Man. Bot. Rocky Mountain Region 409 Muhlenbergia, Schreb. Drop-seed grass. The grain is lance-oblong and drops enclosed in the palets.

1900 B. D. Jackson Gloss. Bot. Terms 179/2 Pale, Palea, the inner bract or glume in grasses, called ‘Palet’ by North American writers.

1955 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 42 207 Sprague pointed out that ‘flowering glumes’ (lemmas) and ‘palets’ (paleas) were also reduced in size, with the result that the stamens were nearly completely exposed.

1998 Plant Jrnl. 13 547 Four maize organs often regarded as fused structures (the coleoptile, prophyll, carpel and palet) are affected by the ns mutations in four distinct ways.