Perigynia

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Perigynium \Per`i*gyn"i*um\, n.; pl. {Perigynia}. [NL. See
     {Perigynous}.] (Bot.)
     Some unusual appendage about the pistil, as the bottle-shaped
     body in the sedges, and the bristles or scales in some other
     genera of the Sedge family, or {Cyperace[ae]}.
     [1913 Webster]