A little way above the florets the club enlarges abruptly, forming a projecting ledge that effectually closes the avenue of escape for many a guileless victim.
Gray) Thistle family Flower-heads - Composite of tubularflorets only, about 1/2 in.
Pistillate florets cover it for only about one-fourth its length.
Meantime the lower, younger florets having matured their stigmas, some pollen may fall directly on them from the older flowers above.
From the latter, as he flies away, he will carry fresh pollen to the outer row of florets on another umbel, and so on - at least this is the usual and highly advantageous method.
The flower of the wild carrot is white; it is made up of numerous small separate florets on an umbel, and in the centre of these tiny florets is a deep crimson one.
Without its white floretsit would not be seen at all.
In the so-called double flowers of the Compositæ, the corollas of the central florets are greatly modified, and the modifications are likewise inherited.
This is clearly proved by certain well-preserved specimens.
There is a deep furrow all around the head, perhaps for fastening on a hood.
This made a very stiff and powerful bow, capable of sending an arrow with great force.
With some flowers conspicuousness is gained at the expense even of the reproductive organs, as with the ray-florets of many Compositae, the exterior flowers of Hydrangea, and the terminal flowers of the Feather-hyacinth or Muscari.
The flowers on this one self-fertilised plant were again self-fertilised under a net, not with pollen from the same floret, but from other florets on the same head.
She plucked the florets in haste, and flung them away one by one.
Linnet plucked a yellow ragwort and pulled out the ray-florets one by one as she answered, “I shan’t have the chance.
The tone of its yellow is richer, yet mellower, and its fluffy little ray-florets have a Japanesque charm in their flowing looseness.
Everyone is familiar with the difference between the ray and central florets of, for instance, the daisy, and this difference is often accompanied with the partial or complete abortion of the reproductive organs.
Robert Brown has strongly insisted on the fact that the position of the rudimentary florets is of the highest importance in the classification of the Grasses.
He also shows that there is a close relation between the size of the corolla in the ray- florets and the degree of abortion in their reproductive organs.
Belhomme has shown that the ray-florets are more poisonous than the disc-florets in the ratio of about three to two.
They protruded two very large much-branched panicles; but the florets never opened, though these included fully developed stigmas, and stamens supported on long filaments with large anthers that dehisced properly.
We may therefore believe that the ray-florets are useful in protecting the flowers from being gnawed by insects.
If these florets had opened for a short time unperceived by me and had then closed again, the empty anthers would have been left dangling outside.
Most flowers wither soon after being fertilised, but Hildebrand states that the ray-florets of the Compositae last for a long time, until all those on the disc are impregnated; and this clearly shows the use of the former.
It is familiar to every one that the ray-florets of the Compositae often differ remarkably from the others; and so it is with the outer flowers of many Umbelliferae, some Cruciferae and a few other families.
A branch of inflorescence; the zigzag axis on which the florets are arranged in the spikelets of grasses.
Having in a capitulum large ray floretswhich are unlike the disk florets, as in the aster, daisy, etc.
A radiating part of a flower or plant; the marginal florets of a compound flower, as an aster or a sunflower; one of the pedicels of an umbel or other circular flower cluster; radius.
Having the marginal florets enlarged and radiating but not ligulate, as in the capitula or heads of the cornflower.
Every one knows the {145} difference in the ray and central florets of, for instance, the daisy, and this difference is often accompanied with the abortion of parts of the flower.
Robert Brown has strongly insisted on the fact that the rudimentary florets are of the highest importance in the classification of the Grasses.
These frauds may be detected by the inferiority of the colour, and by soaking the leaves in water, when the stigmas of the Crocus sativus may be readily distinguished from the florets of safflower and the petals of marigolds.
The central or tubular florets of the disc are alone employed, and when ground, furnish the powder of commerce.
The floretsof Carthamus tinctorius, a plant cultivated in Spain, Egypt, and the Levant.
I may add, as bearing on this subject, that, with Asters, seeds taken from the florets of the circumference have been found to yield the greatest number of double flowers.
The florets in many kinds are exceedingly pretty, from the way in which they are tipped and shaded; notably, a new variety that was sent me under the name of Dresden China.
The florets of the disk are chocolate colour, whence issue twirled filamentary forms, which impart to the centre of flower the appearance of being netted with a golden thread.
This is the double crimson or pink Daisy, having its florets piped or quilled (see Fig.
The flowers are larger and the ray florets more deeply cut; it is also bolder in the foliage, and the stems grow nearly as strong as willows.
A variety occurs in which the purple florets of the ray are absent.
Brome grasses generally are known by their loose panicles of flowers, lanceolate and compressed spikelets, and awned florets enclosed in unequal glumes; and B.
In these the florets are in panicles and are not awned.
The florets of the ray form a single row, and the fruit has a hairy pappus.
This immobility means that the florets of the camomile serve them only as a place of ambush, even as later the Anthophora's body will serve them solely as a vehicle to convey them to the Bee's cell.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "florets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
