As in the case of other papilionaceous blossoms, bees are the visitors best adapted to fertilize the flowers.
This plant has leaves, which must have struck everyone with surprise who has noticed them, for they are quite unlike those of all common papilionaceous plants, and resemble those of a grass.
Plants with their branches much modified and temporarily converted into tendrils, but which may be again transformed into branches, as with certain Papilionaceous plants.
In some cases, as in papilionaceous flowers, the stamens cohere, having been originally separate, but in most cases each bundle is produced by the branching of a single stamen.
April to June, colour yellow; papilionaceous flowers in clusters; agree best with shade.
In his book on the fertilization of flowers, Hermann Muller distinguishes four types of papilionaceous flowers according to the way in which the pollen is applied to the bee: [Illustration: FIG.
The seeds of the papilionaceous plants which have thin cotyledons are not eatable; but those with fleshy cotyledons may be safely used as food.
Though my readers will have no difficulty in recognising most of the Leguminosae which have papilionaceous flowers, there are some genera, respecting which they may be interested to learn a few particulars.
Irregular Flowers= may be polypetalous, or nearly so, as in the papilionaceous corolla; but most of them are irregular through coalescence, which often much disguises the numerical symmetry also.
Orchids, Milkweeds, Kalmia, Iris, and papilionaceous flowers each have their own special contrivances, quite different for each.
Standard, the upper petal of a papilionaceous corolla, 92.
Keel, a projecting ridge on a surface, like the keel of a boat; the two anterior petals of a papilionaceous corolla, 92.
Carina, a keel; the two anterior petals of a papilionaceous flower, 92.
Vexillary, Vexillar, relating to the Vexillum, the standard of a papilionaceous flower, 92.
Giring landak (Crotalaria retusa) is a papilionaceous flower resembling the lupin, yellow, and tinged at the extremities with red.
Desmodium is a papilionaceousplant and closely allied to the genus Hedysarum, which has pinnate leaves with numerous pairs of leaflets.
Obviously the clovers, with their three leaflets in each leaf, stand in the midst of the great family of papilionaceous plants, the leaves of which are generally pinnate.
The pinnate leaves obviously constitute a reversion to some prototype, to some ancestor with ordinary papilionaceous leaves.
If now the clover increases its number of leaflets, this may be considered as a reversion to its nearest progenitors, the papilionaceous plants with pinnate leaves.
One of the most curious instances is the terminal flower of the raceme of the common laburnum, which loses its whole papilionaceous character and becomes as regularly quinate as a common buttercup.
The pea family, or the group of papilionaceous plants, has pinnate leaves ordinarily, which, according to our premises, must be considered as a derivative type.
Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.
The upper petal of a papilionaceous flower; the standard.
Of or pertaining to the vexillum, or upper petal ofpapilionaceous flowers.
The two lowest petals of the corolla of a papilionaceous flower, united and inclosing the stamens and pistil; a carina.
A genus of papilionaceous herbaceous plants, one species of which (G.
The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla.
Coronilla emerus is of the ordinary papilionaceous type.
Now I cannot help at once connecting this statement (and all the foregoing statements in some degree support each other, as all have been advanced without any sort of theory) with the remarkable absence of Papilionaceous plants in N.
Papilionaceous flowers are almost dead floorers to me, and I cannot experimentise, as castration alone often produces sterility.
It bears on my former belief (and Asa Gray strongly expressed opinion) that Papilionaceous flowers were fatal to my notion of there being no eternal hermaphrodites.
In irregular corollæ the filaments are usually abortive; as in those of the orchideous, labiate and papilionaceous plants.
The irregular monopetalous or tubular corollæ admit also of being referred to the papilionaceous form.
Their wings are pinnate leaves, and among the Orthoptera many occur which, as well in the form of the body as of the wings, appear as if they had been just liberated from the Papilionaceous tree.
This resemblance speaks moreover retrogressively, for the petals of the papilionaceous corolla being viewed only as a single leaf-bud.
All irregular corollæ admit of being referred to the papilionaceous form.
In the papilionaceous corollæ this originally symmetrical arrangement is most perfectly maintained.
Defn: The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla.
Pseudacacia), producing large slender racemes of white, fragrant, papilionaceous flowers, and often cultivated as an ornamental tree.
Defn: Of or pertaining to the vexillum, or upper petal of papilionaceous flowers.
Defn: The upper petal of a papilionaceous flower; the standard.
The majority of these, however, consisted of papilionaceous plants, and several beautiful varieties of Orchideae.
Masters has briefly described another leguminous plant,[862] namely, a species of clover, in which the uppermost and central flowers were regular or had lost theirpapilionaceous structure.
In a Laburnum-tree I observed that about a fourth part of the racemes produced terminal flowers which had lost their papilionaceous structure.
Almost everyone who has studied the structure of papilionaceous flowers has been convinced that they are specially adapted for cross-fertilisation, although many of the species are likewise capable of self-fertilisation.
Papilionaceous flowers, as described by various authors--for instance, by Mr. T.
So necessary are the visits of bees to papilionaceous flowers, that I have found, by experiments published elsewhere, that their fertility is greatly diminished if these visits be prevented.
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