The antheridia are usually globular and long-stalked. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
Fruiting in autumn, sterile part long-stalked, triangular. From Wordnik.com. [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference
They are submersed aquatics, or a few of them with long-stalked, floating leaves. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference
FRUIT: A long-stalked capsule splitting to release small rough, greyish black seeds. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
FLOWERS: Of varying colours, borne on long-stalked erect inflorescences arising from the leaf axils. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
The plants are perennial herbs with pinnate leaves and small flowers arranged in dense long-stalked heads. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
He chose instead a sheaf of lilies, long-stalked and heavily scented, and despatched them in the care of a picturesque. From Wordnik.com. [The Hippodrome] Reference
Choose tender, quick-grown mint, leafy, not long-stalked and coarse, wash it very clean, taking care not to bruise it in the least, and lay in a clean cloth upon ice. From Wordnik.com. [Dishes & Beverages of the Old South] Reference
These are placed, six together, in the interior of long-stalked, ovate, mucronate, smooth, deep brown follicles, of a tough papery texture, and lined with a thin fur of stellate hairs. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia] Reference
Tannia plants can reach a height of about 2 m and have a short erect stem and large, long-stalked sagittate or hastate leaves, which differ from those of Colocasia in that the leaf stalk joins the blade at the margin between the lobes. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 31] Reference
Conifer, more especially as it is destitute of resin; nevertheless, to that group it belongs, being closely allied to the Yew, but distinguishable by its long-stalked, fan-shaped leaves, with numerous radiating veins, as in an Adiantum. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882] Reference
The long-stalked sporangia bristle in all directions from the cap. From Wordnik.com. [Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.] Reference
In one hand she carried a long-stalked red rose, dripping with dew, in the other the post-bag. From Wordnik.com. [Anna the Adventuress] Reference
Mieris; or a long-stalked wineglass, transparent and full of shifting reflection, or a bit of bread and cheese, or an over-ripe peach with. From Wordnik.com. [The Marble Faun - Volume 2 The Romance of Monte Beni] Reference
An ancient wineglass (Miss Ingersol's), long-stalked, with a small, cup-like bowl, round which is wreathed a branch of grape-vine, with a rich cluster of grapes, and leaves spread out. From Wordnik.com. [Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1] Reference
Lilies of the valley grew beside it, breathing scent into the shadowed air; while on the outer or garden side of the path, the grass was purple with long-stalked violets, or pink with the sharp heads of the cyclamen. From Wordnik.com. [Eleanor] Reference
They had found anemones in abundance, houstonias by the handful, some columbines, a few long-stalked violets, and a quantity of white everlasting flowers, and had filled up their basket with the delicate spray of shrubs and trees. From Wordnik.com. [The Blithedale Romance] Reference
A very familiar vine, clammy, pubescent and musk-scented; large leaves, long-stalked flowers, white petals, greenish veiny fruit usually club-shaped or enlarged at the apex, the hard rind used for vessels, dippers, and so forth. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
Sitting in the January sunshine on the side of this Fiesole hill, overlooking the opposite quarries (a few long-stalked daisies at my feet in the gravel, still soft from the night's frost), my thoughts took the colour and breath of the place. From Wordnik.com. [Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life] Reference
A great, loose bunch of long-stalked violets in his hand; and he was, of course, Lucilla's partner at the heavenly dance, Captain Finch. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
The antheridia are long-stalked. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
(long-stalked cranesbill), Scutellaria Galericulata (skull-cap). From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
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