Though the leaf-sheath surrounds the internode like a tube, it is not a closed tube.
At first growth in length takes place throughout its length in the internode and when it gets older this elongation ceases.
But, however, the lower portion of the internode close to the node and which is enclosed by the leaf-sheath retains its power of growth for a considerable time.
Same, older, with plumule developed into internode and pair of leaves.
This upper internode is left partly to protect the upper bud, but principally to facilitate tying.
In all cases a full internode has been left above the top bud.
The cion is made with about two and one-half inches of internode below the bud and one-half inch above, a sharp knife being the best tool for making the cuts.
A filament was fixed to the third internode from the summit on one plant, and to the fourth internode of another.
Tropaeolum majus: heliotropic movement and circumnutation of an old internode towards a lateral light, traced on a horizontal glass from 8 A.
It may here be added that a filament was affixed transversely to the summit of the second internode above the cotyledons of a little plant 3 ½ inches in height; and its movements were traced on a horizontal glass.
In this particular instance the fifth internode (including the hypocotyl) was the first which plainly circumnutated and twined round a stick.
Just before the assumption of the imago, the direction of the lobes of the brain becomes horizontal, the second and third ganglions unite, and the internode between the third and fourth is shortened[129].
Of these, in the caterpillar of the goat-moth there are ten, the first issuing from the bifurcation of the internode between the fourth and fifth ganglions, and the remainder from the succeeding ones.
It is made of an internode of a variety of bamboo[30] about 1.
I have seen an additional internode attached to the end yarn beam in a vertical position, with a view to increasing the resonance.
The joints of the bamboo are cut off and the circumference of the resulting internode is measured accurately with a piece of abaká or other fiber.
In the absence of the coconut ladle, he employs the bottom of a bamboo internode to which has been left attached a strip that serves as a handle.
When the Manóbo maiden is especially desirous of calling attention to her assiduity and perseverance, she has an extra internode placed in an upright position against the yarn beam just described.
It consists of an internode of bamboo with one partition wall removed.
The lime is invariably kept in a small internode [20] of bamboo.
The bamboo guitar is made of aninternode of one of the larger varieties of bamboo.
Engelmann[517] figures a case wherein the calyx of Anagallis phoenicea was separated by a rather long internode from the corolla, and a like illustration in Torilis Anthriscus.
An upper internode made three revolutions, following the sun, at an average rate of 1 hr.
There is, however, in many cases this unimportant difference, that the curving tendril is separated from the curving internode by a rigid petiole.
After the twenty-first revolution, the penultimate internode was 2.
I have thought it worth while to annex a tracing of the course pursued by the upper internode (the movement of the tendril being neglected) of a young plant from 8.
To ascertain more precisely what amount of movement each internode underwent, I kept a potted plant, during the night and day, in a well-warmed room to which I was confined by illness.
An upper internodemade four revolutions, following the sun, at an average rate of 1 hr.
A line painted along the convex surface of a revolving internode becomes first lateral, then concave, then lateral and ultimately again convex.
When a petiole of this species clasps a stick, it draws the base of the internode against it; and then the internode itself bends towards the stick, which is caught between the stem and the petiole as by a pair of pincers.
At the twenty-seventh revolution the lower and still moving internode was 8.
With all, if in full health, two internodes revolved; so that by the time the lower one ceased to revolve, the one above was in full action, with a terminal internode just commencing to move.
But the movement of each separate internode is so independent of the others, that cutting off an upper one does not affect the revolutions of a lower one.
An internode bearing immature tendrils made two revolutions, each in 3 hrs.
The older parts of a phyton grow little, and when the internode has attained a certain length, variable for different stems and different conditions, it does not elongate at all.
From a long and thrifty young internode of grapevine cut a piece that shall measure exactly one hundred units, for instance, millimeters.
These grow both from above and below, meeting in the middle of the internode and completely hiding the long axial cell.
A section across the internode shows the large axial cell (y) surrounded by the regularly arranged cells of the covering or cortex (Fig.
Of these characters length of internode was carried by the Bush, and the procumbent habit by the original Cupid parent.
Branchlets of one or more internodes, each internode in three parts--a length without leaves, a length bearing leaves and a node of buds.
The staminate flower--its constant basal position on the internode and its compact clusters.
In species able to adapt themselves to great changes, the length of the internode may vary from 50 cm.
The leaf in its most erect position still makes a considerable angle with the internode of the stem above it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "internode" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
