This is the name given to the form which has the twigs, petioles, peduncles and often the midrib and veins of the leaves beneath covered more or less with short erect, reddish, glandular hairs.
June or July, when the leaves are almost mature; bracts of the peduncles very variable, generally about 8-10 cm.
Leaves irregularly lobed, harsh or rarely velvety or smooth to the touch beneath; peduncles of fruit shorter than the petioles.
Leaves sinuate dentate, sometimes lobed near the base, velvety to the touch beneath; peduncles of fruit longer than the petioles.
I cannot, however, find any proof that the true clove tree, with peduncles and aromatic buds, has been found in a wild state.
A main peduncle was secured to a stick in an upright position, and one of the upright sub-peduncles which had been observed circumnutating whilst the flower was expanded, continued to do so for at least 24 h.
The several species of Oxalis probably profit in the following manner by their sub-peduncles first bending downwards and then upwards.
Considering the great length and thinness of the peduncles and the lightness of the pods, we may conclude that they would not be able to excavate saucer-like depressions in sand or sawdust, or bury themselves in moss, etc.
Vaucher* says that when the plant is so placed that the heads cannot soon reach the ground, the peduncles grow to the extraordinary length of from 6 to 9 inches.
It will also be seen in the next chapter that the sub-peduncles of the separate flowers of [page 225] Trifolium repens circumnutate in a complicated course during several days.
As soon as the pods begin to swell, the pedunclesincrease much in length and slowly curve downwards, but the short, upper, hooked part straightens itself.
Most of the above flowers were never fertilised owing to the exclusion of bees; they consequently withered very slowly, and the movements of the sub-peduncles were in like manner much retarded.
The peduncles grow from the axils of the leaves, and they are branched and many-flowered.
The species of the genus Drosera are remarkable for the curious manner in which the leaves and peduncles are coiled up when they first appear, and in which they slowly unroll themselves as they grow.
There are five stigmas, quite distinct from each other, and appearing just above the ovary, without any style; and the peduncles are simple and one-flowered.
This fact led me to examine the other plants after they had flowered and were dug up; and I found that the flower-peduncles of all sprung from an extremely short common scape, of which no trace can be found in the pure primrose.
He states that thepeduncles of the cleistogamic flowers curve downwards and bury the ovaries beneath the soil.
Hooker and Thomson state that some of the Indian species of Campanula produce two kinds of flowers; the smaller ones being borne on longer peduncles with differently formed sepals, and producing a more globose ovary.
Scaly; thickened and knotty below, and bearing on their summits few or many clustered, one-flowered peduncles of about the same length.
Peduncles usually exceeding the leaves; with a single leaflet below the flower.
The spikes are solitary, axillary and terminal and 1/4 to 1 inch, the peduncles of the spikes are often confluent in a leafy spathiform panicle; the rachis is fragile with short joints deeply excavate on one side.
The flowers are very frail looking, about an inch broad, borne on long, slender peduncles from the root.
The second are cleistogamous ones (fertilized in the bud) on short curving peduncles from the root.
The flowers, rising on slender peduncles from the axils of the leaves, are rather large and bright yellow; the two lateral petals are heavily bearded and the lower one is handsomely veined with purple.
The showy flowers, growing on slender pedunclesfrom the ends of the branches, are 2 to 3 inches across.
The regular whorled leaves and graceful bending peduncles supporting the hanging "bells" make a conventional design that often appeals to the artistic eye.
The flowers are white, few in number, on short peduncles in an open raceme and have six petals.
The large funnel-shaped blossoms grow singly on slender pedunclesfrom the axils of the leaves.
In July and August it bears one to five nodding flowers on long, erect peduncles above the topmost whorl of leaves.
Most of the Violets, during the summer, have apetalous or cleistogamous flowers on short peduncles from the root; these never open, but are fertilized in the bud.
They grow in few-flowered umbels at the end of the stem on slender peduncles from the axils of some of the leaves.
The lilac-white flowers are clustered onpeduncles from the axils of the leaves.
The flowers are in terminal clusters of one to twelve blossoms, nodding on long peduncles from the summit of tall leafy stems.
The flowers hang in loose clusters on long peduncles from the axils of the leaves.
The flowers grow on slender peduncles from the angles of the upper leaves; they have four large, rounded, magenta petals, each with a short, sharp point at the tip.
Slightly pubescent or glabrous; inflorescence loose, on peduncles much longer than the leaves =Bush Clover, Lespedeza violacea.
Flower-clusters, or many of them, on peduncles longer than the leaves --61.
Stem very short, almost below the surface of the ground, with long erect peduncles =Cancer-root, Orobanche uniflora.
Leaves chiefly basal, the racemes on long leafless peduncles (4-8 dm.
Flower-clusters sessile, or on peduncles shorter than the subtending leaves --59.
Villous-pubescent; inflorescence dense; some peduncles shorter than the leaves =Bush Clover, Lespedeza nuttallii.
It is generally found in low grounds, along water courses or ditches, and while quite generally distributed, it is sparing of its favors, as the long pedunclesthat terminate the stems or simple branches, support but a single flower.
They are arranged in clusters on the ends of the peduncles or flower stems and are from an inch to an inch and a half in length.
Spikelets altogether as in Panicum proper, and awnless, but with the short peduncles bearing below the joint of the spikelet solitary or clustered bristles resembling awns (but not forming an involucre).
Perennial upright herbs, with thick and deep roots; peduncles terminal or lateral and between the usually opposite petioles, bearing simple many-flowered umbels, in summer.
In the other case the force was applied to the peduncles themselves, to ascertain whether it was possible to wrench them and the ridge away from the face, when the consequence was, that the skull was completely riven asunder.
The degree of branching of the inflorescence may be noticed, as this deformity is far more common in plants whose peduncles are branched than in those which have either a solitary flower or an unbranched flower-stalk.
This remark, and the fact of the flower-peduncles being decidedly flexuous, led me carefully to examine them.
For instance, I have found them embracing thin withered blades of grass, the soft young leaves of a maple, and the flower-peduncles of the quaking-grass or Briza.
The tendrils and the flower-peduncles rise close side by side; and my son, William E.
I have twice seen sub-peduncles which bore from thirty to forty flower- buds, and which had become considerably elongated and were completely wound round sticks, exactly like true tendrils.
We may suspect that, owing to the principle of correlation, the power of movement has been transferred to the flower-peduncles from the young internodes, and sensitiveness from the young petioles.
In the nine vigorous plants observed by me, it is certain that neither the slight spontaneous movements nor the slight sensitiveness of the flower-peduncles aided the plants in climbing.
Loops of thread suspended on the peduncles produced no effect; loops of string, however, weighing 0.
With respect to irritability, {21} I rubbed two youngpeduncles (1.
The flower-peduncles of the Maurandia semperflorens revolve spontaneously and are sensitive to a touch, yet are not used for climbing.
The adhesion of the peduncles to the stem accounts for the extra-axillary position of flowers, as in many Solanaceae.
The floral axis sometimes appears as if formed by several peduncles united together, constituting a fasciated axis, as in the cockscomb, in which the flowers form a peculiar crest at the apex of the flattened peduncles.
Other glands, having the same general appearance, are found on the flower-peduncles and calyx.
The glands on the flower-peduncles seem to have no such power.
The inferior peduncles are the corpora restiformia, previously described, and consist of both sensory and motor filaments.
The peduncles of the cerebellum, the means by which it communicates with the other portions of the brain, are divided into three pairs, designated as the superior, middle and inferior.
Lateral peduncles jointed, and, as well as the calyx, pilose, and almost hispid.
The flowers are rather small, yellow, generally with four petals, on slender peduncles arising from the axils of the leaves or from the forks of the stem.
The long peduncles each bear an oval head of crowded flowers of a dark purple colour.
The long axillarypeduncles each bear a one-sided raceme of from six to ten yellow flowers, which are followed by rather large, smooth pods.
The flowers are pale blue, appearing from June to August, and are generally solitary or in pairs, on peduncles which are about as long as the leaves.
The peduncles vary from two to eight inches in length; and the florets of the head, which are all yellow, are surrounded by an inner whorl of narrow, erect bracts, and outer bracts which either overlap or are turned back on the stalk.
The little flowers are solitary in the axils of the leaves, on long, slender peduncles that are always curved backwards as the fruits ripen.
The beautiful, rich scarlet flowers are about three inches in diameter, often with a black patch at the base of each petal, and are solitary on long peduncles that are covered with hairs.
The flower-heads are solitary, on peduncles from three to eight inches long, and of a bright yellow colour.
They are arranged in umbels of from three to ten, with long peduncles and short pedicels.
Its flowers are a little smaller, with two opposite petals larger than the other two; and the hairs of the peduncles lie close against the surface.
Frequently two or three specimens have their pedunclesimbedded in one common ball, of which there is a fine specimen in the College of Surgeons (Pl.
Several individuals had their peduncles imbedded in the same ball, "which floated like a cork on the water.
Specimens are attached to various horny corallines, and occasionally to the peduncles of each other.
Where several are crowded in a group, their peduncles often become twisted and their positions irregular, with their orifices facing in any direction.
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