For more than half the year, from October to May, it is comparatively a verdureless and flowerless land, dark with furze and grey with rocks and heather, splashed with brown-red of dead bracken.
Even here, in a district comparatively flowerless for many months, as I have said, there are flowers to be seen if looked for pretty well all the year round.
In all plants, both the flowerless ones and those producing flowers, the process is carried to a perfection almost unbelievable in its intricacy and in provisions against its failure.
In the case of these nonvascular flowerless plants there are certain modes of growth that, in some forms at least, are always associated with this scavenger-like food habit.
Yet in a surprisingly large number of plants new individuals, both of flowering and flowerless plants, are regularly produced without such a union and where sexuality has nothing to do with the increase.
While most fungi, particularly those familiar ones like mushrooms and puffballs, are inhabitants of the land, the remaining group of nonvascular flowerless plants are nearly all water plants.
These may be divided into sexual, which includes both that in flowering plants with their visible mating and in flowerless plants with invisible mating, and asexual, literally without sex.
Its stem is thin but hard, and much branched, the numerous flowerless branches usually forming a dense tuft close to the ground.
On the small flowerless branches the leaves are very crowded and overlapping; but on the taller, flowering stems they are more scattered and placed alternately.
Its spreading offsets give rise to globular tufts of flowerless shoots, and to thick, succulent, flowering stems that grow to a foot or more in height.
The day was overclouded, and no clearness of atmosphere relieved the aspect of the shabby chapel, with its black railing, and locked gates, and dank flowerless grass inside.
The spore cases or conceptacles of flowerless plants, as of ferns, mosses, algae, etc.
Soft snows that hard winds harden Till each flake bite Fill all the flowerless garden Whose flowers took flight Long since when summer ceased, And men rose up from feast, And warm west wind grew east, and warm day night.
The vegetable kingdom is divided into two great provinces, allotted respectively to the flowering and the flowerless tribes.
Those fine clouds, not nearly so visible as a film of candle smoke, are composed of innumerable spores, and such are the representatives of seeds in every member of the great section of the flowerless plants.
In the flowerless section, on the contrary, there are none of these visibly separate agencies in reproduction, and what are usually termed the seeds do not show any parts representative of the developed product.
In the true seeds, which belong to flowering plants alone, are contained the rudiments of a stem, leaves, and root, but in the spores of the flowerless plants nothing of the kind is found.
Ferns, then, are flowerless plants which bear their spores in cases growing upon the back or margin of the leaves.
So also the English synonymous name of Flowerless Plants is both good and convenient: for they have not flowers in the proper sense.
Flowerless stems terminated by a large round 7--9-lobed leaf, peltate in the middle like an umbrella.
The jubilant cry from the flowering thorn to the flowerless willow, "smite, smite, smite.
A trampled flower-bed, flowerless at this season, and a few broken window-panes, were all the evidence that the rioters had passed.
Flowerless willow no more but every run a late-shed perfect bloom.
A class of flowerless plants including all those that have no defined axis, stem, or leaves; as Lichens, Seaweeds, and Fungi.
But the determination of these palms being doubtful, we have as yet in the coal no positive proofs either of the existence of the most perfect, or of the most simple forms of flowering or flowerless vegetation.
The earliest traces of vegetation belong to the Thallogens, flowerless plants of the class Algæ (Fig.
They resembled both mosses and lycopods, which are flowerless cryptogamic plants of a low organisation.
A term formerly applied to any mosslike flowerless plant, with a distinct stem, and often with leaves, but without any vascular system.
A class of flowerless plants, embracing ferns, horsetails, club mosses, quillworts, and other like plants.
The macrosporangium or case for the larger kind of spores in heterosporous flowerless plants.
Of or pertaining to the lower side or surface of a creeping moss or other low flowerless plant.
The series or division of flowerless plants, or those never having true stamens and pistils, but propagated by spores of various kinds.
One of the minute grains in flowerless plants, which are analogous to seeds, as serving to reproduce the species.
Flowerless in the ordinary, not the botanical sense.
For the sake of those who love ferns, lycopods, and other cryptogamic or flowerless plants, a few words may be said here.
Palms are plenty; forms akin to our pines and firs abound, and the old flowerless group of ferns begins to shrink in size, and no longer spreads its feathery foliage over all the land as before.
Plants are divided into two great groups, the Cryptogams or Flowerless Plants and the Phanerogams or Flowering Plants.
The above are all the principal divisions of the flowerless plants, and we have now to note the general characteristics of the Phanerogams.
The divisions of flowerless plants are too hard a study for little folks, but the plants are all very interesting, and we can gather them, and see how they grow.
Very much the same, and it belongs to the flowerless class, too, along with the mosses and lichens and ferns and mushrooms.
But it is too hard a study for a little boy, and it is enough to learn now that they do all belong to the big flowerless or Crip-tog-a-mous class.
Not even all to the same division of flowerless plants.
Thus the vegetation of the Palæozoic period consisted principally of the lowly-organised groups of the Cryptogamous or Flowerless plants.
Hooker inclined to the belief that the Sigillariae may have been cryptogamous, though more highly developed than any flowerless plants now living.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flowerless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
