Even the nectary which is adherent to the upper surface of the pedicel in the normal flower disappears -- sometimes completely, at other tunes partially.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

Floral nectary structure and nectar chemical composition of some species from Robinson Crusoe Island (Chile).    From Wordnik.com.  [Juan Fernández Islands temperate forests] Reference

We've planted it full of natives, with a couple of small eucalypts and lots of colorful, flowering, nectary things.    From Wordnik.com.  [Distractions, distractions...] Reference

The humming-bird alone can reach the bottom of the nectary of the honeysuckle; but even here the instinct of the bee is seen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 354, January 31, 1829] Reference

The nectary-like petals, the stamens, and pistils were all present in the lateral flowers, but were completely suppressed in the middle one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

Compound nectary of 5 unilocular, many-ovuled ovaries.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference

The two blossoms are connected at the nectary of each in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America] Reference

Especially attend about the nectary exterior to the staminal tube.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference

Angraecum sesquipedale, a Madagascan orchid, with a whiplike nectary, 11 to.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference

Anthers equal in number to the teeth of the nectary and inserted between them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference

Let us suppose a flower whose nectary chances to be only six inches in length.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Studio Neighbors] Reference

Its nectary tube is five inches in length, and as slender as a knitting-needle.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Studio Neighbors] Reference

Stamens 5, inserted on the nectary, and alternating with the lobes of the latter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference

At E we see the moth with its tongue entering the nectary of a subsequent blossom.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Studio Neighbors] Reference

Smaller insects might creep into the nectary and sip without the intended fulfilment.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Studio Neighbors] Reference

The nectary implies a welcome to a tongue two inches long, and will reward none other.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Studio Neighbors] Reference

Ovary within the nectary, 5-angled, 5 apartments each containing an almost spherical seed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference

What insect has a tongue five inches long, and sufficiently slender to probe this nectary?.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Studio Neighbors] Reference

The evolution of the long nectary implies an adaptation to an insect's tongue of equal length.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Studio Neighbors] Reference

Pistillate: calyx and corolla same as staminate; nectary, 5 glandules on the base of the ovary.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference

The flowers expand, and a set of vessels pour into the cup or nectary a minute portion of honey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained] Reference

Hence even the thin nectary is essentially, I infer, tripartite; hence its tendency to bifurcation at its top.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference

Mr. Wallace (page 476) shows that both proboscis and nectary might be increased in length by means of Natural Selection.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference

The opening to the nectary is seen just below the stigmatic surface, the nectary itself being nearly two inches in length.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Studio Neighbors] Reference

The tendency towards the perpetuation of the short nectary is therefore stopped, while that of the longer nectary is insured.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Studio Neighbors] Reference

None of its pollen would be carried to other stigmas, nor would it set a seed to perpetuate by inheritance its shorter nectary.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Studio Neighbors] Reference

The insect derives an advantage from its increased haustellum, but what advantage does the plant derive from its retiring nectary?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Story of Creation as Told By Theology and By Science] Reference

The pollen-pouches approach slightly at the base, directly opposite the nectary, where the two viscid pollen-glands stand on guard.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Studio Neighbors] Reference

Toward the two little gleams of light through apertures at the end of a passage beyond the nectary hairs he at length finds his way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Flowers Worth Knowing] Reference

A nectary is found in many orders of plants and is especially common in the Orchids, but in this one case only is it more than a foot long.    From Wordnik.com.  [Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays] Reference