From above it was entirely hidden by branchlets of latest growth, and the hand could not have been inserted without at first cutting several vines, overlying it in different directions.
The branchlets are a rich reddish-brown, and are marked with tiny orange-colored dots.
On the branchlets it is a dark purplish-brown, later becoming brownish-gray.
The bark of arborvitae is light brown, tinged with red on the branchlets; it is thin, and cracks into ridges with stringy, rough edges; the branchlets are very smooth.
The branchlets are green, slightly tinged with red; covered with short hairs when first appearing, becoming grayish and shiny during their first winter, eventually turning ashen gray or brown.
On the branches it becomes much thinner, and lighter in color, the branchlets being unfissured and glabrous in the second year, although fuzzy at first.
Frond erect, flat; branches in a forking manner; ultimate branches fine and short, and with branchlets on the tips.
Fronds bristle-like, dividing regularly; covered with whorls of branchlets set close to the stems, each whorl overlapping the previous one, giving the plant a spongy appearance.
Branches and branchlets placed on one side of arched main stems; secondary branches curved in opposite direction and bearing branchlets, also divided on one side only; color dark brown.
Producing a cluster ofbranchlets from a larger branch; -- said of corals.
Our last genus of the Ceramiaceae is the large and typical one Ceramium, which contains about a dozen British species in which the frond is threadlike, jointed, branched or forked repeatedly, with the tips of the branchlets usually curled.
Tetraspores in distorted branchlets or in receptacles.
Hookeri, with opaque stem and branches, and spreading branchlets that are themselves branched, and bear spreading plumules at their tips; and C.
It is pinnately branched, and all the branches and branchlets taper towards both ends.
Its branches are rather long, and bear a few simple branchlets towards their extremities.
The branches are regularly arranged, and the comb-like branchlets bear the tetraspores on the tips of the plumules.
Its stem is thick, proceeding from a discoid root, and is clothed with hair-like filaments; and the branches bear short, slender branchlets that give them a feathery appearance.
The branches have rigid, hookedbranchlets arranged in such a manner as to give a combed appearance.
These are pinnately branched, and the club-shaped branchlets taper below.
Allied to this is Gelidium corneum, with flattened, horny fronds, repeatedly pinnate, with the smallest branchlets obtuse and narrower at the base.
It may always be known by the comb-like branchlets growing only on one side of each branch.
Both branches and branchlets are fringed with slender cilia, in which the spores are embedded.
Cassytha, but thicker, longer, and with the branchlets in compact clusters on the ends of the long, arching branches.
This has smallerbranchlets than the type plant (E.
A distinct and beautiful plant, of dwarf, creeping habit, forming a tuft of shortbranchlets springing from the main procumbent stems, none of which exceed 6 in.
As in the majority of Cactuses, the stems of Epiphyllum become woody and almost cylindrical with age, the axes of the branchlets swell out, and the edges either disappear or remain attached, like a pair of wings.
On uninodal branchlets they form an apical group consisting of a terminal bud with a whorl of subterminal buds about its base.
On multinodal branchlets the inner nodes bear lateral buds which may be latent.
Growth of wood and fruit emanating from the nodes; buds, branchlets and cones, therefore, in verticillate association.
Branchlets of one or more internodes, each internode in three parts--a length without leaves, a length bearing leaves and a node of buds.
Such a condition may be recognized on the branchlets of the present, and of the previous year (fig.
The difference between them, however, is most obvious on long branchlets with wide intervals between the leaf-fascicles.
Spikelets sessile and jointed on the very short densely crowded branchlets of a tall, narrow raceme like panicle, deciduous, acute, much compressed, imbricate and secund 7.
The lowest whorl consists of five to ten branches and in others they vary from three to eight; the branchlets are spreading and drooping bearing from two to seven spikelets.
Branchlets are 1/2 to 3 inches, capillary, angular and further dividing.
This tree has also the peculiar habit of sending out little branchlets full of leaves along the stem from the root upward, and this has a very pretty effect, like that of some elm trees.
These branchlets look like parts of a large compound, flat leaf.
The branchlets are very small, light and slender, and are set irregularly on the sides of the small branches; so that they form a flat surface.
The willows cast their branchlets in snow and wind, and these, falling in pleasant places propagate their kind; and thus the river sides and the lake shores become willow-crowned.
They are borne in the axils of the leaves in the same manner as the branchlets and are not conspicuous unless one is close to the tree.
The arrangement of the leaves and the gracefulness of the drooping branchlets are most pleasing.
But one of the little branchlets fell sick and died, or a bug nipped off its end, or it starved to death; and its memory is preserved by the little stick standing up at 3.
The metallic starlings have again built on a favourite tree--not massive and tough, but a slim though tall Moreton Bay ash, the branchlets of which are not notoriously brittle.
Presently the cracking of branchlets and a rumble of discontented phrases told of someone blundering along through the mangroves.
Eventually a thin brown snake was seen doubled up and apparently sound asleep among the branchlets The gun was called for, and two others hastened to the scene, each of whom distinctly saw the snake.
One was in the form of an eagle's nest, and not nearly so large as that in which some eaglets are reared, made by interlacing branchlets of white mangrove until the mass was sufficient to support his weight.
A fossil plant from the coal formations of Europe and America, now regarded as the branchlets and foliage of calamites.
A similar deformity sometimes occurs in an Indian species of Artabotrys; in these specimens the branchlets are contracted in length, and bear numerous closely packed scaly leaves, densely hairy, and much smaller than ordinary.
Some of the species on windy outjutting rocks become very picturesque, almost as much so as old oaks, the foliage becoming dense and the branchletstufted in heavy plume-shaped horizontal masses.
The arrangement of the leaves is crowded and panicled on the recent shoots, which are twice and thrice branched; from the shortness and twisted shape of the leaf stalks, the branchlets have a compressed appearance.
The wood is very pithy, square, with sharp corners, and having the appearance almost as if winged; the younger branchlets are dark bronze green.
The trees are typical Morellos, round-headed, with slender, drooping branches and branchlets and very dark green foliage.
Capillitium of very slender, colorless threads, simple or forking a time or two, and connected by short branchlets at the extremities.
Capillitium of slender brown or blackish threads, which immediately branch and anastomose, forming a dense interior network of large irregular meshes, the ultimate branchlets of which support a superficial network of small polygonal meshes.
Very minute scattered branchlets usually connect the superficial network with the wall of the sporangium.
The peculiar characteristic of this genus is the short free hooked and pointed branchlets of the capillitium.
The claim of this genus to be distinguished from Lamproderma must rest upon the fact that the branchlets of the capillitium do not anastomose and form a network.
An evergreen tree, bearing clusters of brilliant crimson flowers at the extremities of the shoots; in this it differs from Callistemon, whose flowers encircle the branchlets some distance below the extremities.
A handsome shrub with glaucous leaves, the branchlets terminated by bright-yellow poppy-like flowers.
Within the plant is a peat made of rotting leaves and branches, which holds water like a sponge, and into which the final branchlets send roots.
A flower cluster in which the end of the stem is terminated by a flower from the base of which side branchlets similarly tipped with flowers arise (cyme).
From the multitude of their branchlets these down feathers resemble minute shrubs; when, however, these branchlets are wet and sticking to each other, they take up but very little room; as they dry they become disentangled and separated.
Sometimes two or more branchlets spring from the same point.
The branches and branchlets of varieties are very characteristic.
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