The flowers of the Red Currant (Ribes rubrum) are numerous, and they are produced in drooping racemes, with a little bracteole at the base of each footstalk (see a in fig.
The leaves are smooth and shining; and they are articulated; that is, they can be separated from the petiole or footstalk without lacerating them.
The petiole or footstalk of the leaf sheaths the stem, as shown at h, where the leaf is represented on a reduced scale to suit the flower.
Though in reality sessile, they appear to have each a footstalk, but this footstalk is only the long twisted ovary (c in fig.
When they sit upon a long footstalkwhich also bears the antennae.
Latreille observed one on each side of the base of the scale on the footstalk of the abdomen in ants[204].
When the footstalk of the abdomen is inserted in the upper part of the postscutellum, so as to leave a considerable space between it and the postpectus.
When it is elevated on a footstalk above the dorsolum, and forms a tabular or flat surface.
The mother insect began by kneading woody fibre into a paste, and making the footstalk of the future nest.
One end of this footstalk is attached very strongly to the branch, and to the other end is fastened the first cell.
Their forms are most eccentric, some species having the abdomen small and round and set on a long footstalk, while others have that portion of the body placed so closely against the thorax, that the short footstalk is scarcely visible.
The right-hand figure shows a very remarkable cocoon suspended by a long footstalk affixed to a ring.
Supported by a Small footstalkof preportionable length.
Situated at the base of the footstalk of each flower on the peduncle; it is long thin and begins to decline as soon as the corrolla expands.
The small firn also rises with a commonfootstalk from the radix and are from four to eight in number.
A of the length of the Common footstalk from the bottom and thence alternately pinnate; the footstalk termonating in a Simple undevided nearly entire lanceolate leafet.
Seperate footstalk of 1/2 an inch in length scattered without order on the upper portion of the peduncle.
The bladders are compressed and rounded, with the ventral surface, or that between the summit of the long delicate footstalk and valve, extremely short (fig.
Neither the blade of the leaf nor a single tentacle on the opposite side was affected; the line of separation between the two halves extending from the footstalk to the apex.
The cut end of the footstalk of a young leaf was protected with sealing-wax, and was then placed under a small bell-glass, with a large pinch of the carbonate.
The lower side, where the footstalk arises, is nearly straight, and I have called it the ventral surface.
The middle part of the upper surface of these small cells projects a little, and then contracts into a very short and narrow footstalk which bears the four arms (fig.
The leaves of this species, which was sent to me from Ireland, are much elongated, and gradually widen from the footstalk to the bluntly pointed apex.
A few tentacles spring from the base of the footstalk or petiole, and these are the longest of all, being sometimes nearly 1/4 of an inch in length.
The footstalk is not in the least sensitive; a pin may be driven through it, or it may be cut off, and no movement follows.
The angle between the blade and footstalk does not change when the lobes close.
The whole blade also generally rises or bends upwards, and thus forms a smaller angle with the footstalk than it did before.
The two segments forming the pedicels of the glands probably answer to the conical protuberance and short footstalk of the quadrifid and bifid processes.
A leafstalk; thefootstalk of a leaf, connecting the blade with the stem.
A vertical flat scale, observable on the footstalkof the genus Formica, &c.
This footstalk rises from between the posterior coxae, which appear in the Lamellicorns to ginglymate with it at its base.
One or more subrotund protuberances of thefootstalk in the genus Myrmica[1125].
Nevertheless, if the footstalk of a young leaf be rubbed with a thin twig a few times on any side, it will in the course of a few hours bend to that side; afterwards becoming straight again.
A forked twig placed so as to press lightly on the under side of a young footstalk caused it, in 12 hrs.
Ascyron) brightens the banks of streams at midsummer with large blossoms, each on a long footstalk in a few-flowered cluster.
Crawling pilferers rarely think it worthwhile to slip and slide up the smooth footstalk and risk a tumble where it curves to allow the flower to nod - the reason why this habit of growth is so popular.
The little pale yellow flowers, also growing in pairs on a footstalk from the leaf axils, have their tubular corollas strongly cleft into two lips.
This was to permit the discharge of a viscid liquid from the footstalk end; and in order to assist this discharge, the pods were several times lightly pressed between the fingers.
Having a healthy shoot of the growth of this year provided of the kind that is desired, begin at the lower end of this shoot, cut away all the leaves, leaving the footstalk of each.
Palmae, not growing to great magnitude; the leaves or fronds are plaited flabelliform, leaflets smooth at the edge, footstalk spiny, and the plant spreading.
