An interesting case of a monotropic dimorphous substance is found in phosphorus, which occurs in two crystalline forms; white phosphorus belonging to the regular system, and red phosphorus belonging to the hexagonal system.
Each crystalline form has its own melting point, the dimorphous forms of iodine monochloride melting at 13.
Another class of dimorphous substances is, however, met with as, for instance, in the case of the well-known compounds iodine monochloride and benzophenone.
But they are always relatively rare, and any lot of plants conveys the idea of a dimorphous race, the small twisted stems contrasting strongly with the tall straight ones.
Manifestly the dimorphous cases are to be considered as the younger ones, partly because they are obvious exceptions to the common rule, and [642] partly because the division of labor is indicative of a higher degree of evolution.
But they owe this quality entirely to their dimorphous character.
Here I might refer to the observations concerning the invisible dimorphous state of the flowers of the normal toad-flax.
Granting these conclusions, monstrosities on the one side, and dimorphous wild species on the other, constitute the most striking examples of the inheritance of latent characters.
Several species produce small peculiar flowers, precociously fertilized in the bud and particularly fruitful; and the ordinary flowers are often dimorphous or even trimorphous in the relative length of the stamens and styles.
Flowers perfect, but often dimorphous (as in Mitchella and Houstonia).
Flowers axillary or whorled, rarely irregular, perfect, sometimesdimorphous or even trimorphous, those on different plants with filaments and style reciprocally longer and shorter.
Herbs, with thickish and commonly red roots and sessile leaves; flowers solitary and as if axillary, or spiked and leafy-bracted, sometimes dimorphous as to insertion of stamens and length of style.
Flowers appearing in early spring, exhaling a rich spicy fragrance, dimorphousas to style and stamens and subdioecious.
Defn: Isomorphism between the two forms severally of two dimorphous substances.
Defn: Having the stigma visible at the throad of a gamopetalous corolla, while the stamens are concealed in the tube; -- said of dimorphous flowers.
Isomorphism between the two forms severally of two dimorphous substances.
Having the stigma visible at the throad of a gamopetalous corolla, while the stamens are concealed in the tube; -- said of dimorphous flowers.
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