Interestingly, the "lobed" configuration has been observed -- and videotaped -- elsewhere. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-11-01] Reference
The leaves vary much in size, and are lobed and finely curled. From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
A low-growing shrub with silvery-green three-lobed leaves and milky sap. From Wordnik.com. [Concordance A Terran Empire concordance] Reference
The Stabler has many one-lobed nuts which increase the number of halves recovered. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting Guelph, Ontario, September 3, 4, 5, 1947] Reference
Then he drew a picture of thesedeeply lobed leaves and told me their scientific names. From Wordnik.com. [The 24-hour Date] Reference
The acute bractlets are three-lobed, halberd-shaped, sparingly cut-toothed on one side. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884] Reference
This variety, if unmixed, may be known by its bright-green, deeply lobed, and curled leaves. From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
Occasionally we meet a genus, like Eryngium or Hydrocotyle, with leaves merely toothed or lobed. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891] Reference
The feet are armed with hoofs; in some whole or rounded, in others obscurely lobed or sub-divided. From Wordnik.com. [Domestic Pleasures, or, the Happy Fire-side] Reference
In thalloid forms fimbriate or lobed margins or outgrowths from the surface lead to the same result. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
A tall kind, with leaves of handsome shape (heart-shaped and lobed) and greener than most varieties. From Wordnik.com. [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference
The leaflets, moreover, are fantastically shaped, being again lobed, also toothed and bent in various ways. From Wordnik.com. [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference
The leaves expand towards their extremities into a spatulate form, the edges being regularly lobed and curled. From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
The twisted column with oak leaves and the five lobed arch are both characteristic of English work of this period. From Wordnik.com. [Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving] Reference
The leaves are large -- about 1ft. long and 9in. wide -- have a stout mid-rib, are pinnate, and most curiously lobed. From Wordnik.com. [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference
They seldom exceed 1in. in diameter, and are of various forms, as heart-shaped, sagittate, oval, tri-lobed, and so on. From Wordnik.com. [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference
The edges of the leaves may be perfectly smooth ( "entire"), or they may be variously lobed, notched, or wavy in many ways. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference
Those varieties which have the margin crenated or lobed seem most liable to assume this abnormal supra-soriferous condition. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
The protonema forms a flat, lobed, thalloid structure attached to the soil by rhizoids, and the plants arise from marginal cells. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
In the round, four or five-lobed seed vessels are black kidney-shaped seeds, which retain their vitality two years or even longer. From Wordnik.com. [Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses] Reference
Exterior leaves seven or eight inches long, deeply lobed; the lobes divided in the same manner as those of the Common Green Curled. From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
The leaves are herb-like, and, as the common name implies, like the leaves of the dandelion, similar in size, but more cut or lobed. From Wordnik.com. [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference
Leaves sixteen to eighteen inches in length, very dark green, deeply lobed, or lyrate, and hairy, or hispid, on the nerves and borders. From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
The six lobed dish was a very usual form; it had a depressed centre, with six indented scallops, and the edge flat like a dinner plate. From Wordnik.com. [Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance] Reference
But logic dictates she is the robed figure in the middle of the stage under a three-lobed headdress, best summed up as papal via tribal. From Wordnik.com. [Fever Ray; Zola Jesus] Reference
A very dwarf species, not more than 3in. or 4in. high; the foliage a clear bright green, nearly kidney-shaped, lobed, and roundly toothed. From Wordnik.com. [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference
This genus may be readily recognized by the form of the cap, which is lobed and irregularly waved and drooping, often attached to the stem. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners] Reference
Each flower tends to have two yellowish green stigmatic lobes but three-lobed stigmas may be found and one case of a 4-lobed stigma was observed. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953] Reference
The feet, however, are very different, for, instead of the toes being furnished with a lobed membrane, they have a continuous narrow one down each. From Wordnik.com. [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference
The stamens are here analogues not of a simple entire leaf, but of a lobed, digitate, or compound leaf, each subdivision bearing its separate anther. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
The radical leaves are hairy and rough, and are usually lobed, or lyrate; but, in some of the sorts, nearly spatulate, with the borders almost entire. From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
Physopoda: bladder-footed: = Thysanoptera; q.v. Phytophaga: plant-eaters: beetles in which the 4th and 5th tarsal joints are anchylosed and the 3d is lobed. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Vilmorin mentions two varieties; one having entire leaves, the other with lyrate or lobed leaves; giving preference, however, to the one with entire leaves. From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
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