Supported by a stipe; elevated on a stipe, as the fronds of most ferns, or the pod of certaincruciferous plants.
It is in the spring and early summer chiefly that the ravages of these insects occasion perplexity, for they awaken from their winter torpor active and hungry, and have a ready appetite for almost any cruciferous plant.
Other cruciferous plants are less seriously damaged by the pest than are Turnips and Cabbages; but it is evident that if diseased Charlock is near Turnips, the latter are very likely to fall a prey to the disease.
In common with other fast-growing plants of the cruciferous order, Turnips must have lime in some form, and in many gardens it will occasionally be necessary to give a dressing of lime in addition to the ordinary manure.
The only tree which continues is Phulahi or Rairoo; Convolvulus spinosus very common, a very curious Chenopodioid, Reseda with Cruciferous qualities.
Turnips and barley are cultivated here, and in these fields may be found a Cruciferous annual, and probably a small species of Lamium.
The features of the country are the same, together with the vegetation, the only novelty being a genuine Statice and a Cruciferous plant, which I observed at Mookhloor, and a Composita, Echinops spinis radiantibus continued.
The only novelty was Bardana in flower, and it proves to be a cruciferous plant of large size.
The Horse Radish of our gardens is a cultivated cruciferous plant of which the fresh root is eaten, when scraped, as a condiment to correct the richness of our national roast beef.
The nitrogen of this and other cruciferous plants serves to make them emit offensive stinks when they lie out of doors and rot.
By natural order they are cruciferous plants; and all contain much nitrogen, or vegetable albumen, with a considerable quantity of sulphur; hence they tend strongly to putrefaction, and when decomposed their odour is very offensive.
The common garden Radish (Raphanus sativus) is a Cruciferous plant, and a cultivated variety of the Horse Radish.
It is a Cruciferous plant, made familiar by the diminutive pouches, or flattened pods at the end of its branching stems.
Pereira has shown us that it contains sulphur (a known preventive of rheumatism) as freely as do the cruciferous plants, Mustard, and the Cresses.
It is the only British species belonging to the Cruciferous order of plants, and flourishes best on the walls of old buildings, flowering nearly all the summer, though scantily supplied with moisture.
The Turnip (Brassica Rapa) belongs to the Cruciferous Cabbage tribe, being often found growing in waste places, though not truly wild.
One of the roost useful, but not best known, of the Cruciferous wild plants which are specifics against Scrofula is our English Scurvy Grass.
The species which causes the potato murrain, although liable to attack the tomato, and other species of Solanaceæ, does not extend its ravages beyond that natural order, whilst Peronospora parasitica confines itself to cruciferous plants.
The whole plant has not only the taste, but the properties, of cruciferous plants; and even the caterpillars of the cabbage-butterflies feed upon it.
I next learned to know the Cruciferous and Umbelliferous plants; and thus I acquired a general knowledge of three extensive orders with very little trouble to myself.
This acridity, however, is never so great as to be injurious; and Cruciferous plants, particularly if their texture be succulent and watery, may always be eaten with perfect safety.
The Cruciferous plants form so natural an order, that when one of them has been described the others may be easily recognised.
Its caterpillar lives near the regions of perpetual snow, on smallcruciferous plants.
Dwarf close-growing evergreen cruciferous plants, adapted for rockwork and the front part of the flower border, and of the easiest culture.
Besides these rare cases there are quite a number of cruciferous species on record, which have been observed to bear bracts.
This little annual cruciferousplant is common in the fields of many parts of the United States, though originally introduced from Europe.
Bracts are reduced leaves, but the spikes of the cruciferous plants are generally devoid of them.
Charlock is a most persistent cruciferous weed, but if sprayed when young with the solution named it is killed, the corn plants being uninjured.
He has a cruciferous nimbus, and is blessing with the right hand, whilst with the left He holds an open book inscribed "EGO SVM LVX VERA.
The beggar is Christ with cruciferous nimbus, On the left hand is S.
The maggot of the Cabbage-fly eats its way into the roots of cruciferous plants, that of the Mangel-fly works out a broad blister between the two skins of a leaf, into which the newly-hatched larva crawls directly from the egg.
The caterpillar feeds on Sisymbrium, Arabis, Cardamine, and other cruciferous plants.
The caterpillar feeds upon cruciferous plants, like many of its congeners.
The three plants which were observed were a little Arenaria or Stellaria, and two Cruciferous plants, one of which only was in fruit.
These lay eggs upon various cruciferous plants which hatch into greenish caterpillars that eat the leaves and soon mature so far as their caterpillar stage is concerned.
In the case of some species the whole yearly cycle has been adapted to correspond to the yearly history of the cruciferousfood plant.
It is now, however, so rare that it seems to feed chiefly upon wild cruciferous plants and is more likely to be found along the borders of open woods than in gardens and fields.
The caterpillars feed upon cruciferous plants and when full grown are about an inch and a half long, of a general yellow color, more or less striped with purple lines.
Like its allies the larvae feed upon various cruciferous plants, the hedge mustard being one of these and the adults visit the flowers of the same family.
You once told me that Cruciferous flowers were anomalous in alternation of parts, and had given rise to some theory of dedoublement.
It is really curious to know what conceited people there are in the world (people, for instance, after looking at one Cruciferous flower, explain their homologies).
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cruciferous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
