The flowers occur singly in the axils of the leaves.
The leathery leaves and rugged stems are yellowish green in color and, in the axils of the leaves, are the small and insignificant flowers, which ripen about Christmas-tide into pearly white translucent berries.
The male blossom catkins are short-stalked, and stand singly in the axils of the bracts; the fruit is a black berry.
Axillary, [Illustration] in the axilsof the leaves.
The blossoms of its stamens form panicles; the female cones stand either singly in the axils of the leaves or in clusters.
The sappy stem is from three to six feet high; the egg-shaped leaves are covered with down; the brownish-red blossoms are arranged solitary in the axils of the leaves.
It still remains an open question whether the flowers are developed from the axils of tubercles of the same season or the last ones of the preceding season.
These catkins are pendulous, cylindrical, and often slender inflorescences, carrying flowers of one sex only, which spring from the axils of scaly bracts.
The flowers appear near the ends of the shoots in the axils of the leaves, and are pitcher-shaped.
The flowers are crowded in the leaf axils in great profusion, but are small and greenish white; the growth of the plant is somewhat straggling and uneven, but it has one merit--viz.
The small greenish-white flowers are borne in loose clusters, of the type known as cymes, from the axils of the leaves, and appear in May and June.
The flowers, though individually small and inconspicuous, are rather striking, from their association in cylindrical yellow catkins, about six inches long, which hang from the axils of the leaves.
Leaves about two inches across, smooth; on the lower surface the axilsof the nerves are glaucous and downy, with hairy patches between nerves.
They are in long loose racemes, which droop from the axils of the leaves in May.
Leaves larger (four inches) and rougher, downy beneath, axils of the nerves woolly.
The female catkins will be found in the axils of the leaves, and resemble buds.
July or August, when the buds destined for the following year are completely formed in the axils of the leaves, and when the bark separates freely from the wood it covers.
The edges of the leaves of Bryophyllum calycinum and of Cardamine pratensis, and the growths in the axils of the leaves of Lilium bulbiferum, as well as the fronds of certain ferns (e.
Its fronds vary from one to three inches in length, and the spores are arranged singly in the axils of the branchlets.
A number of roots grow downward from the under side of the stem, and the fruit is developed in the axils of the leaves that form the terminal cones of the fertile branches.
Its spores are arranged in clusters in the axils of the branchlets.
The pinna are dentate, and the spores are in stalked, oval conceptacles in the axils of the pinnae.
It may be known by its buff-coloured stem, with triangular or rhomboidal, jagged, silvery leaves, and clusters of sessile flowers in the axils of the leaves.
They may be distinguished by the forked branching of the slender frond, and by the position of the conceptacles in the axils of the branches, and not at the tips.
As in the other knot grasses, the flowers arise from the axils of the leaves.
Laureola, spurge laurel, a small evergreen shrub with green flowers in the leaf axils towards the ends of the branches and ovoid black very poisonous berries, is found in England in copses and on hedge-banks in stiff soils.
The flowers spring in branching spadices from the axils of the leaves, and as the trees are unisexual it is necessary in cultivation to fertilize the female flowers by artificial means.
What is known as the "hen-and-chicken" daisy has the main head surrounded by a brood of sometimes as many as ten or twelve small heads, formed in the axils of the scales of the involucre.
In the third species, Primula acaulis, this scape is lacking and the flowers are inserted singly in the axils on long slender stalks.
The scapes themselves are inserted in the axils of the basal leaves, and produce the flowers above them.
Flowers in small heads, in the axils or in terminal spikes; leaves sinuately toothed or nearly entire =Strawberry Blite, Chenopodium capitatum.
Flowers solitary in the axils of the upper foliage-leaves (4-8 dm.
Leaves mostly entire, the upper ones with smaller leaves fascicled in the axils (5-20 dm.
Flowers solitary in the axils of leaf-like bracts, or in terminal bracted racemes (1-4 dm.
Stem simple or sparingly branched; pistillate heads in the axils of the upper leaves (1-3 m.
Heads chiefly in clusters or short racemes in the axils of ordinary foliage leaves, or occasionally the upper compacted into a leafy cluster terminating the stem --134.
Principal leaves on the stem, alternate, or with smaller ones clustered in theiraxils --132.
Flowers more or less conspicuous, in obvious spikes or racemes which terminate the stems or branches, or arise from the axils of the upper leaves --18.
Inflorescence of several-flowered clusters terminating the stem and in the upper axils =Toad-flax, Comandra umbellata.
They occur in the axils of the lower leaves of the shoot of the current season.
Both the male or staminate flower and the female or pistillate flower spring from buds that are formed in the axils at the base of leaves of the previous season's growth.
Sterile flowers from the axils of the preceding year's leaves, consisting of globose clusters of stamens with spurred anthers: fertile catkins at ends of preceding year's branchlets, scales crimson.
The leaves are furnished with stipules, and the flowers spring from the axilsof the leaves.
These are aquatic herbs, the thecae or receptacles of which are always found in the axils of the leaves near the root.
The organs of reproduction are formed in the axils of the branches, and consist of transparent globules, and hard, spiral nuculas, which appear to be formed of twisted leaves, the points of which often form a kind of crest.
The flowers spring from the axils of the leaves, and grow close to the stem without any footstalk; and the leaf-bud for the ensuing shoot grows beside the flower-bud.
The male catkins are sometimes at the end of the shoots, but generally they spring from the axils of the leaves.
They have creeping stems, and grow two or three feet high; the erect stems being clothed with imbricated leaves, in the axils of which these are produced.
The peduncles grow from the axils of the leaves, and they are branched and many-flowered.
In the Citron these wings are wanting entirely, and instead of them there are spines in the axils of the leaves; there are generally forty stamens, and the rind of the fruit is very thick.
A curious feature of this plant is to be found in the long threadlike branchlets produced in the axils of the leaves.
Though borne in the axils of the opposite leaves, the pretty blossoms, by a twist of their pedicels, stand side by side in pairs, in a very sociable way.
Bright blue; sessile; two or three together in the axils of the leaves or terminal; of ray-flowers only.
Its small, white, bilabiate flowers are crowded in the axils of the upper leaves so densely as to appear like whorls.
Clustered in the axils of the leaves; or in an interrupted naked spike.
Seeds are sometimes used, so are the tubers which form in the axils by the leaves.
Cuttings taken from the axils of the large leaves during early summer push freely, so that they will have plenty of roots before winter sets in.
Sometimes small bulblets form in the axils of the leaves, and these are used in the same manner as bulbels.
In the axils of the mammae are tufts of white wool.
Here it will form young buds in the axils of the withered tubercles, and on the edges of the persistent parts of the tubercles themselves.
Flowers medium in size, developed near the top of the stem from the woolly axils of the tubercles; colour bright rose.
The flowers are produced in theaxils of the tubercles from all parts of the stem, a large tuft of stems being thickly studded with circles of tawny yellow petals, which are only about ½ in.
It is from these notches that the large, showy flowers are developed, just as in plants the flowers of which are borne from the axils of the leaves.
Its purple flowers appear from July to October, disposed partly in small heads in the axils of the upper leaves, and partly in slender, flexible spikes which form a panicle more or less branching.
The flowers are of a lilac colour, and emit an agreeable perfume: they are produced in large bunches which issue from the axils of the leaves.
The small, white, solitary flowers are borne in the axils of the leaves during April and May.
Distinguished by the egg-shaped leaves and three-parted spines at the axils of the leaves.
From theaxils of the leaves spring the elongated spikes of pale blue flowers.
The flowers, which are borne in the axils of the leaves, are yellowish in colour, but inconspicuous, and appear in early spring.
In the centre, or in the axils of the scales, the newly-forming bulbs can be seen, in onions that are sprouting.
The buds are terminal, and axillary, from the axils of the leaves of the preceding year, usually from those at the ends of the branchlets.
The flower-buds are larger than the leaf-buds and are in the axils of the lower leaves of the preceding year.
The leaf-buds are terminal, or in the axils of the upper leaves of the preceding year; the flower buds are axillary.
Let the pupils repeat the experiment of cutting off the top of a seedling Pea, if it is not already clear in their minds, and find buds in the leaf-axils of other plants.
The leaves are reduced to little scales (eyelids), in the axils of which come the buds (eyes).
Buds can be forced in the same way to grow from the axils of the lower scales, and even from those of the cotyledons, and the lesson may be again impressed that organs are capable of undergoing great modifications.
If they are still in doubt as to the cause of these marks, show them some house-plant with well-developed buds in the axils of the leaves, and ask them to compare the position of these buds with their branches.
They also produce buds in the axils of these scales, showing the scales to be leaves; whereas real roots bear neither leaves nor axillary buds.
Buds will be developed in the axils of the nearest leaves, and it will be shown that each is a compound leaf with two appendages at its base, called stipules, and with a tendril at its apex.
If any of these can be shown to the pupils, remind them of the experiment where the top of a seedling Pea was cut off and buds forced to develop in the axils of the lower scales.
The spore capsules are present in the axils of the uppermost leaves of the branches, and these are kidney-shaped.
Some of the upright stems are barren, but a certain proportion bear the spore capsules in the axils of the small leaves.
Secondary leaves, the permanent foliage of Pines, are borne on dwarf-shoots in the axils of primary leaves.
Buds compounded of minute buds in the axils of bud-scales, becoming the bracts of the spring-shoot.
Not until May do the rusty yellow winter buds of the white ash swell and throw out on separate trees their staminate and pistillate flower clusters from the axils of last year's foliage.
Plum-like purple fruits succeed the small white fragrant flowers, borne in clusters in the axils of the leaves.
The little yellow figs that snuggle in the axils of the leaves turn purple, sweet, and juicy as they ripen.
In spring the slender branchlets of this little tree are covered with opposite, pointed leaves, two to five inches long, and in theiraxils are borne purplish flowers, with four spreading recurving petals.
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