quaternate leaves. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
More than 1,000 were quaternate or quinate, the ternate leaves being still in the majority. From Wordnik.com. [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference
Nearly all the individuals produced at least some quaternate leaves, and thereby showed the variety to be quite pure. From Wordnik.com. [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference
I have often seen isolated plants with quaternate leaves, but only rarely have I observed individuals with more than one such leaf. From Wordnik.com. [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference
In the flowering period I selected four plants with the largest number of quaternate and quinate leaves and destroyed all the others. From Wordnik.com. [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference
Isolated quaternate leaves are of but little interest, while the occurrence of many on the same individual indicates a distinct variety. From Wordnik.com. [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference
With buttercups and brambles and many others there is only an increase above the typical five; quaternate flowers are wanting or at least are very rare. From Wordnik.com. [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference
The common laburnum has a variety which often produces quaternate and quinate leaves, and in strawberries I have also seen instances of this abnormality. From Wordnik.com. [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference
I had the good fortune to find two plants of clover, bearing one quinate and several quaternate leaves, on an excursion in the neighborhood of Loosdrecht in Holland. From Wordnik.com. [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference
For brevity's sake all these cleft and ternate, double cleft and quaternate cotyledons and even the higher grades are combined under one common name and indicated as tricotyls. From Wordnik.com. [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference
This number in one summer amounted to 46 quaternate and 16 quinate leaves, and it was evident that I had secured an instance of the rare "five-leaved" race which I am about to describe. From Wordnik.com. [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference
I found some stray quaternate leaves of this plant some years ago, and tried to win from them, through culture and selection, a race that would be as rich in these anomalies as the red clover. From Wordnik.com. [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference
But when plants with two or more quaternate leaves on the same individual are chosen it indicates that it belongs to a definite race, which under suitable conditions may prove to become very rich in the anomalies in question. From Wordnik.com. [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference
Often all these deviations may be seen among the seedlings of one lot, and then it is obvious that together they constitute a scale of cleavages, the ternate and quaternate whorls being only cases where the cleaving has reached its greatest development. From Wordnik.com. [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference
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