The adventitious organs appeared as if they were developments from the thalamus -- a kind of foliaceous disc, in fact. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
In other cases no traces of ovules are visible, but the funiculi are in a foliaceous condition. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
The structure in question consisted of a stalked foliaceous cup proceeding from the inflorescence. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
These latter organs may be absent or they may themselves be the subjects of foliaceous development. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
There are cases, however, in which a part only of the pistillary structure thus becomes foliaceous. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
These foliaceous heaps lie along the bank like the slag of a furnace, showing that Nature is “in full blast” within. From Wordnik.com. [Walden] Reference
When the leaves are verticillate and numerous, and they become coherent by their margins, they form a foliaceous tube around the stem. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
A foliaceous condition of the outer portions of a flower is very generally attended by atrophy or complete suppression of the inner portions. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
The several floral parts are here, some virescent, others truly foliaceous, and each whorl is separated from its neighbour by a rather long internode. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
Occasionally in prolified flowers the parts of the corolla, like those of the calyx, become foliaceous, and in the case of proliferous pears fleshy and succulent. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
The stamens were eight or ten in number, their connectives prolonged into foliaceous or petaloid appendages, so that the filament represented the stalk of the leaf. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
Terminal flowers are more subject to it than lateral ones, and if the latter, by accident, become terminal, they seem peculiarly liable to assume a foliaceous condition. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
An increased number of ovules is generally remarked in conjunction with some other change, such as a foliaceous condition of the carpel, in which the margins are disunited. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
Is it a mass of foliaceous growth containing certain lines of reproductive matter, or is it a distinct development from the axis, in which the reproductive organs are situated?. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
I opened the stomachs of several, and found them largely distended with minced sea-weed (Ulvæ), which grows in thin foliaceous expansions of a bright green or a dull red colour. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference
Thus, talc is foliaceous whereas chrysotile (white asbestos) is fibrous. From Wordnik.com. [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference
A crushed fly was placed on the foliaceous footstalk, but produced no effect. From Wordnik.com. [Insectivorous Plants] Reference
The foliaceous appendage on the back has long been known in the young of the common Water Slater. From Wordnik.com. [Facts and Arguments for Darwin] Reference
The form of the bilobed leaf, with its foliaceous footstalk, is shown in the accompanying drawing (fig. 12). From Wordnik.com. [Insectivorous Plants] Reference
The tertiary crystallization is a frosting of small siliceous crystals upon the edges of the foliaceous crystals. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Earth~ Part 2 (historical)] Reference
So close was this resemblance, that a native Dyak maintained that the foliaceous excrescences were really moss. From Wordnik.com. [VII. Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection] Reference
These foliaceous heaps lie along the bank like the slag of a furnace, showing that Nature is "in full blast" within. From Wordnik.com. [Walden] Reference
And the trees, besides being hung with climbers, are also decked with orchids and with foliaceous lichens and mosses. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty] Reference
Cornelius Tacitus, compares, in the case of Vesuvius, to the form of a lofty and thickly-branched and foliaceous pine. From Wordnik.com. [COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1] Reference
I am very much obliged to you for telling me the results of your foliaceous tour, and I am glad you are drawing up an account for the. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference
Dicotyledon, and are not amalgamated with the primary form and with each other like the irregular curled lobes of a foliaceous Lichen. From Wordnik.com. [Facts and Arguments for Darwin] Reference
But, in general, these representations much exceed the natural size, and they are painted, and often strewed with pieces of the foliaceous. From Wordnik.com. [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16] Reference
I feel as if I were nearer to the vitals of the globe, for this sandy overflow is something such a foliaceous mass as the vitals of the animal body. From Wordnik.com. [Walden] Reference
Portion of an open foliaceous carpel of. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
&c., sometimes become foliaceous. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
18. foliaceous. From Wordnik.com. [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference
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