Crown of 5 free membranaceous leaflets, which are truncate or obscurely lobed at the apex, where they bear a pair of flexuousawns united at base.
This is a slender perennial marsh-grass with stems rooting in the mud and with flexuous floating branches, sending up erect or ascending, weak and slender leafy branches, 2 to 4 feet high.
These have slender, thickly-spined, and flexuous stems, which twine about the taller trees from one to the other, and grow to an incredible length.
This is a very pretty little star tulip, with graceful, flexuous stems and erect flowers, whose spreading petals are covered with hairs.
A single, long, grasslike leaf precedes the flexuous stem, with its quaintly arched and delicately fringed blossoms.
Few; linear-lanceolate; the radical one or two much larger than those of the flexuous or erect stem.
The curled and flexuous threads are interesting microscopic objects.
The flexuous reticulated rugæ present an appearance similar to that of the hymenium of a Merulius.
In fact, inferior cells are produced from the flexuous filaments which creep about its surface, cover and surround it on all sides, while joining themselves to each other.
Afterwards the spore emits, from any point whatever of its surface, a thin, straight or flexuous tube, which attains a length of from two to ten times the diameter of the spore.
N] The same authors have also figured the curious pentagonal conidia springing fromflexuous threads accompanying Sphæria felina, Fckl.
If, however, a tendril be very slack, the whole length almost simultaneously becomes at first flexuous and then spiral.
In this plant I once observed a main branch after it had caught a stick become spirally flexuous in 7 hrs.
They consisted in about equal proportions of gnarled and flexuous forms, the former being the men, the latter the women, who wore tilt bonnets covered with nankeen, which hung in a curtain upon their shoulders.
The face was young in the groundwork, old in the finish; the general contours were flexuous and childlike, but the finer lineaments had begun to be sharp and thin.
These consist in the head and whole body being lowered and thrown into flexuous movements, with the tail extended and wagged from side to side.
The form here considered is remarkable for its delicacy; extremely thin, perhaps one layer only of overlying elongate flexuous sporangia(?
Stipe and columella smooth and black, tapering upward and reaching the apex of the sporangium, the columella bent and flexuous or spirally twisted, about as long as the stipe.
Capillitium of slender, flexuous brown threads forming a dense network of rather small meshes.
Capillitium of slender flexuous tawny-brown threads; these branch repeatedly, forming an intricate network of small irregular meshes, ending in very short free extremities.
Capillitium of very slender flexuous tawny-brown threads; these branch repeatedly, forming an intricate network of small irregular meshes, ending in very short free extremities.
Capillitium of slender flexuous brown threads, which branch repeatedly, forming a dense intricate network of small meshes, ending in very short free extremities.
Stipe and columella black and shining, the stipe very short, the columella reaching nearly or quite to the apex of the sporangium, often flexuous above.
Sporangia cylindric, bent or flexuous and more or less inclined, growing close together on a conspicuous purplish-brown hypothallus.
Her flexuous and stealthy figure became an integral part of the scene.
His thought had been unsuspended; he was becoming ill with thinking; eaten out with thinking, withered by thinking; scourged out of all his former pulsating, flexuous domesticity.
This morning the eye returns involuntarily to the girl in the pink cotton jacket, she being the most flexuous and finely-drawn figure of them all.
Only Henchard did not conform to these flexuous changes; he remained stately and vertical, silently thinking.
