perianth

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• _ Longitudinal section of the summit of a shoot bearing a nearly mature sporogonium, sg, still enclosed in the calyptra; ar ', archegonia which have remained unfertilized; st, stem; b, leaf; p, perianth. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
• Around these reproductive organs is the perianth, usually consisting of an outer whorl of sepals and an inner whorl of petals.
• The yellowish-green to white perianth of male and hermaphrodite flowers is tubular.
• By the leaf, perianth and bulb as explant and divided them 5 ages degree, studied of hyacinth difference explants and theirs ages on bulb induce in vitro.
• In the scilla there is no corona, neither a tube, but the petal-like sepals or divisions of the perianth are entire, going to the base of the flower. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
• Staminate flowers in long, drooping catkins, provided with three or more stamens and occasionally with an irregular-lobed perianth adnate to the bractlet and a rudimentary ovary. The Pecan and its Culture
• Flowers of Nigella have a conspicuous perianth, differentiated into an outer whorl of five white, petaloid sepals and an inner whorl of eight, stalked nectaries.
• B, The "perianth" with the small perichaetial leaves below it. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
• A flower is hypogynous if the perianth and androecium are inserted around the base of the gynoecium.
• (_Convallaria maialis_) seems also to be particularly subject to an increase in the number of parts of which its perianth consists, the augmentation being due partly to repetition or pleiotaxy, partly to the substitution of petaloid segments for stamens and pistils. [ Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants