How To Use petalous In A Sentence
- Vascular plants found in Mt. Assiniboine park include American alpine smelowskia Smelowskia calycina, Raynold's sedge Carex raynoldsii, Cusick's Indian paintbrush Castilleja cusickii, stalked-pod locoweed Oxytropis podocarpa, sub-alpine grassland Saussurea nuda and apetalous campion Silene uralensis attenuata. Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks, Canada
- They are monopetalous, small, white, stellated in six points. The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants
- Their flowers become monopetalous, and the whole strain is designated by the name of _Papaver_ [662] _bracteatum monopetalum_. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation
- Any of various plants of the genus Thalictrum, having compound leaves and clusters of small white, yellowish, or purplish apetalous flowers.
- Advance has been along two lines, markedly in relation to insect-pollination, one of which has culminated in the hypogynous epipetalous bicarpellate forms with dorsiventral often large and loosely arranged flowers such as occur in Scrophulariaceae, and the other in the epigynous bicarpellate small-flowered families of which the Compositae represent the most elaborate type. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
- All these plants are grouped under three main divisions: apetalous, monocotyledonous, and dicotyledonous; and these main divisions are further subdivided. Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887
- One talks of the typical nature of polypetalous or monopetalous plants; another ridicules the idea, because as he wisely says, some polypetalous plants are monopetalous, and vice versa!! he objects, in fact to what constitutes the great value of a character, _its mode of variation_. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
- A more frequent change among the monopetalous orders is the duplication or triplication of the corolla, in consequence of which there appear to be a series of corollas enclosed one within the other, the lobes of which generally alternate with one another, but which sometimes are superposed. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
- = -- With reference to double flowers, it was remarked by Linné that polypetalous flowers were, as he said, multiplied, while monopetalous flowers were duplicated, or triplicated, as the case may be, [435] a statement that is true in the main, though it requires modification. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
- Following Augustin Pyranius De Candolle, botanists have applied the term cohesion to the coalescence of parts of the same organ or of members of the same whorl; for instance, to the union of the sepals in a gamosepalous calyx, or of the petals in a gamopetalous corolla. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
