The upper leaves are smaller, more ovate in form, and less densely wooly on the undersides.
The magenta-pink petals and sepals are united to form a hood; the lip, curving abruptly downward, is broadly ovate and white; each flower has a short spur and is bracted.
It is a more attractive plant, having two broad basal leaves and larger flowers with a broad ovate lip.
The long-stemmed ovate leaves have a wavy-lobed edge.
In all the seven, the materials of the two sides are wound round the twigs, between which they are suspended like a cradle, and the shape is an ovate cup, about the size of half a hen's egg split longitudinally.
It was in a calicarpa tree and between two of its long ovate leaves, the terminal halves of which were sewn together by the edges, so as to form a purse in which the real nest was placed.
It was ovate and slightly pyriform, of a faded bluish-green ground thickly spotted all over with very light umber-brown, over larger spots of bluish-grey.
Cases of this kind, wherein the flowers of a pea and of the foxglove were replaced by collections of small ovate green scales packed one over the other till they resembled the strobile of a hop, have been already alluded to.
Cardamine pratensis: "On the lower part of the corymb were several seed vessels on pedicels changed from their usual linear to an ovate elliptical figure, so as to resemble a silicula.
The eggs are ovate conical, broadly flattened at the base and slightly truncated at the top, with many longitudinal ribs and transverse cross-ridges (see Fig.
The egg is ovate conical, and is well represented in Fig.
The egg is ovate conical, ribbed perpendicularly with many raised cross-lines between the ridges.
It has light blue flowers in ovate spikes, about the size of large pine cones.
The large elongatedovate leaves are beautifully striped with green and dark purple, and called Zebra plant.
The latter has the largest foliage, which is ovate and accuminate; berry-bearing.
It has large pendulous branches of blue (leguminose) flowers, blooming from May to August; pinnated leaves with nine ovate downy leaflets; grows freely.
Turk's cap, named from having anovate conate crown upon the top, from which proceed the small red flowers.
The foliage is ovate lanceolate, deeply serrated, and opposite.
The ovary is stalked, silky, and ovatein form; the stigmas are undivided, and nearly sessile.
Cones of an oblong, ovate shape, erect, full one inch in length, and of a brownish colour when ripe.
The blade is an ovate piece of slate about 5 inches long, and is let into a handle made of several pieces of wood, extending along nearly half the circumference, and secured together by resin.
I have engraved a typical example of the ovate form in my own collection as Fig.
The ovate type seems to predominate, but the pointed forms are not scarce.
In the Christy Collection is an ovate implement, 4 1∕4 inches long, in form like Fig.
I have another implement of chert, but of ovate form, found at Boscombe, as well as some good pointed implements of flint.
I have, however, one of ovate form from Holywell Row, near Eriswell, and another, not unlike Fig.
I have pointed, oval, andovate specimens, as much as 8 and 8 1∕2 inches in length.
Ovate implement of intermediate form between the tongue-shaped and sharp-rimmed.
The outer surface is decorated by four curious monkey-like creatures, sculptured in low relief, separated from each other by ovate spaces inclosed in double parallel lines and filled with cross-hatching.
The face of the monkey is carefully molded in high relief to form the handle of the lid, while between his hands he grasps an ovate object identical with those on the vase.
Each has on the upper surface of the brim a small ovate piece of mother-of-pearl, firmly cemented to the stone.
The former is a giant water weed with dark green ovate leaves and light stems.
It shows small ovate leaves that are green on the upper side and pink on the under.
The cone is 31/2 inches in length and 3 in circumpherence, of an ovate figure being thickest in the middle and tapering and terminating in two obtuse points.
The root of the rush used by the natives is a sollid bulb about one inch in length and usually as thick as a man's thumb, of an ovate form depressed on two or more sides, covered with a thin smothe black rind.
It may be a particular variety, or they may become more ovate as they increase in size, The sternal shields (in specimens preserved in brine) are pale yellow, with black edges.
Mr. Gould brought two large specimens of this species, which are much more ovate and convex than Dr.
The eggs vary in shape from subpyriform to ovate pyriform, are slightly glossy and are very fragile.
These areovate pyriform in shape and have a slight gloss.
The eggs vary in shape from ovate (rarely) to ovate pyriform and they are usually much elongated.
They are usually ovate pyriform in shape with a tendency to become subpyriform.
The eggs areovate pyriform in shape, with a slight gloss.
They are about ovate pyriform in shape and slightly glossy.
They vary in shape from ovate to roundedovate and have a moderate gloss.
The shapes vary fromovate pyriform to ovate and there is a slight gloss.
The eggs are ovate or ovate pyriform in shape, with a slight gloss.
The four eggs in this set are ovate pyriform in shape and have hardly any gloss.
The four eggs usually laid by the white-rumped sandpiper are ovatepyriform in shape; all that I have seen are uniform in shape and have characteristic colors and markings.
They are about ovate in shape and have a slight gloss.
It is about the diameter of a goose-quill, is covered with minute ovate scales, roots copiously from beneath and along the sides, and produces fronds from the right and left sides alternately.
They are from a few inches to about a foot in length, and vary in outline from ovate to oblong-lanceolate.
In a frond nine inches long there are about thirty primary pinnae on each side, and in one of the middle pinnae about ten oblong-ovate obtuse pinnately-incised pinnules on each side.
The two general bud shapes were globose-ovate and narrowly elliptical.
Its clusters of long, greenish-yellow flowers hang gracefully from the ends of the slender branches, and the ovate leaves are rather long-stalked.
It is a larger plant, sometimes a foot tall, with ovateto lanceolate leaves.
Ovate to oblong-lanceolate; three to six inches long; dark green; roughish.
Ovate or oblong; three- to five-nerved at base; narrowed into a short petiole.
Leaves ovate rather than lanceolate, sometimes truncate or even cordate at base.
Defn: A genus of ctenophores having an ovate body and two long plumose tentacles.
Defn: Having an ovate form, but with a subulate tip or extremity.
American grass (Glyceria Canadensis) with an ample panicle of rather largeovate spikelets, each one composed of imbricated parts and slightly resembling the rattle of the rattlesnake.
Defn: The plant which yields pepper, an East Indian woody climber (Piper nigrum), with ovate leaves and apetalous flowers in spikes opposite the leaves.
Defn: Inversely ovate; ovate with the narrow end downward; as, an obovate leaf.
Its branches form a close, full head, thickly covered with ovate or lanceolate evergreen leaves.
Defn: Having an ovate form, but narrowed at the end into a slender point.
Defn: An Australian myrtaceous tree (Eugenia Smithii), having smoothovate leaves, and panicles of small white flowers.
One of several grasses of the genus Briza, having slender-stalked and pendulous ovate spikelets, which quake and rattle in the wind.
It had not yet flowered, but I afterwards found the blossoms, which were yellow, with a large, flat calyx, in five ovate segments.
The petal is bell-shaped, white tipped with purple, divided half way down into five semi-ovate segments.
There were also affixed to some plantsovate white bodies of a silky texture, apparently formed of innumerable silky threads.
Their scales ovate and almost leafy, green, pointed, three-cleft, with three pair of purplish pistils.
Petal one, erect, gradually dilated upwards, divided almost down to the base into fiveovate segments, purple, deciduous.
The lower leaves of the preceding year, of an ovate form, still remained under water quite fresh, bearing ripe seeds in their axillae.
The legitimate wampum is only of shells, and was of aboriginal manufacture; being small long tubes with anovate surface, or sometimes simply cylindrical; and handsomely polished: but imitations of glass or porcelain seem now the most common.
This species has an ovate body three to four inches in height and about half as broad.
A species of about the same size as the last, but more ovate or ventricose in form.
When at rest the body isovate and somewhat pentagonal.
The shells of the /Nassidae/ have a short, ovate aperture, with a short anterior canal.
The smooth leaves are borne on short stems and are about 5 inches long and 2 to 3 inches wide, ovate or ovate oblong, acute at the apex, and the margins entire.
They are ovate or lanceolate, 2 to 3 inches long, narrowed at the base, smooth and toothed.
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