Hypogynous flowers become perigynous by adhesion, or by lack of separation; perigynous ones become hypogynous by an early detachment from the receptacle that bears them, or by the arrested development of an ordinarily cup-like receptacle.
Dunal observed a flower of Cistus vaginatus in which some of the stamens were replaced by an hypogynous disc.
But the hypogynous poppies, pinks, and St. John's worts have abundance of seed and rather scanty foliage; while the epigynous dogwoods and honeysuckles have few seeds and abundant foliage.
The plants with hypogynous flowers should, as a rule, have less seed and more vigorous and abundant foliage than those at the other extreme with epigynous flowers.
This is the case only in the hypogynous Polypetalæ.
Stamens hypogynous or at the base of the distinct segments of the deciduous perianth (persistent in n.
Sepals and petals each 3 or sometimes 4, hypogynous and persistent.
Herbs or shrubs, with opposite entire dotted leaves and no stipules, regular hypogynous flowers, the petals mostly oblique and convolute in the bud, and many or few stamens commonly collected in 3 or more clusters or bundles.
Of the Polypetalae, series 1, Thalamiflorae, is characterized by hypogynouspetals and stamens, and contains 34 orders distributed in 6 larger groups or cohorts.
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