Petals are generally glabrous or smooth; but, in some instances, hairs are produced on their surface.
Petals multiplied at the expense of the stamens, which are reduced in number.
Petals are attached to the axis usually by a narrow base.
According to the development of veins and the growth of cellular tissue, petals present varieties similar to those of leaves.
Rosaceous corolla (c) of the Strawberry (Fragaria vesca), composed of five petals without claws.
The calyx, petals and stamens spring from above the ovary (o) in which two chambers are shown each with a pendulous ovule; d, disc between the stamens and stigmas.
In Capparidaceae the calyx and petals occupy their usual position, but the axis is prolonged in the form of a gynophore, to which the stamens are united.
In Hellebore the petals become folded in a tubular form, resembling a horn (fig.
Petals are sometimes suppressed, and sometimes the whole corolla is absent.
If the stamens are double the sepals or petals as regards number, the flower is diplostemonous; if more than double, polystemonous.
The general name of polypetalous is given to corollas having separate petals, while monopetalous, gamopetalous or sympetalous is applied to those in which the petals are united.
In Canna, what are calledpetals are in reality metamorphosed stamens.
She bent her head and sat playing with the petals of the white carnation drooping on her breast.
Another way of making this flower is by knitting the petals in brioche stitch; but if done thus, nine stitches must be cast on the needle at first, instead of eight, and the flower finished exactly as directed.
Flower, from which the outer petals and the stigmas have been removed, leaving the inner petals (a) and stamens.
She paused beside them and her petals trembled and began to unfold.
The petals were closely enfolded, concealing whatever sort of body lay hidden beneath, and at the base was a convoluted pedestal that gave the odd impression of a ruffled, tiny skirt.
The apple trees were scattering their delicate petals on the ground, dropping them over the stone walls to the roadsides, where in the moist places of the shadows they fell on beds of snowy innocence.
Cloud-shadows drifted across the grass; the sheep moved steadily forward, with their lambs capering about them; a few more crimsonpetals were shaken from the shrine; the boy still fingered his little pipe in the shade of the elm.
Near by was a small shrine garlanded with red roses, and the grass around was strewn with crimson petals scattered by the breeze.
Gloire de Bordeaux, silvery-rose, the back of the petals rosy, very large and full.
The Duke op Devonshire is of a lilac-color, striped with white, and perfect in form; its petals overlapping with the greatest regularity.
It may be mentioned here, as treatment applicable to all seed-bearing roses, that, when it is desirable the qualities of a favorite rose should preponderate, the petals of the flower to be fertilized must be opened gently with the fingers.
John Hopper, rose, crimson centre, reverse of the petals purplish-lilac, large and full.
Alphonse Belin, clear brilliant red, the reverse of the petals whitish, large, full, and of fine form.
In cultivating Perpetual roses of all classes, the faded flowers ought immediately to be removed; for in autumn the petals do not fall off readily, but lose their color, and remain on the plant, to the injury of the forthcoming buds.
Princess Alice, bright rose, the reverse of the petals whitish, large.
La Duchesse de Morny, bright but delicate rose-color, the reverse of the petals silvery, large and full, form globular.
The petals of Stytidium fructicosum are pale yellow to begin with, and afterward become light rose-colored.
Veronica), whose tubular corolla has been turned to one side, thus combining the united petals with the irregular shape; and these are almost invariably purple or blue.
There were roses in the vase, only sin had bleached the crimson petals gray.
Every rosebud aches with a desire to unroll its petals and exhibit its scarlet secret.
Its color is an olive brown, and when the polyp is expanded its little tentacles resemble the petals of a flower.
At the slightest alarm or jar these disappear, showing themselves merely worms, which have bored into the coral, the flowerlike petals being the breathing organs.
Now the West is the door of wrath, Now 'tis a burnt-out coal; Petals fall on the orchard path; Darkness falls on the soul.
VI The snow is thawing on the hanging eaves, The buds unroll upon the basking limb, And hidden birds are practising a hymn To sing when petals fall among the leaves.
Then when the day was over, When petals fell fresh with the falling dew, Stepped from the dusk a radiant newcomer, Fled by the waters of the sleeping river, Swift to the arms of your impatient lover, Gladly you came.
Happy art thou, O Man, happily free, Who wilt never see A thousand ages shed their life and light As petals fall at eventide.
O heart of clay, O lips of dust, O blue-shadowed wisteria vine; Youth falls away As petals must Beneath the drooping leaves in the day's decline.
Not long since I saw one with a double flower; the petals of each were complete and distinct, the two flowers being set back to back on the top of the stalk.
Everyone who has gathered the beautiful scarlet poppies must have noticed the perfect Maltese cross formed inside the broad petals by the black markings.
Could we go back throughout history intelligently, no doubt we should find that it came always with the hour when the flower of civilization had blown to its full, and when its petals were but slackly held together.
The flowers have a double row of from fifteen to twenty petals and often have two pistils, especially on the older trees.
It was perhaps the first time in their lives that they had ever noticed flowers, but here they could not help it, for the clusters of lilac blossoms brushed off their caps and the petals of cherry-blossoms rained down over them.
The tall stalks looked down with mild seriousness on those sensitive beauties, who discontentedly shut their white petals and yellow stamens in a hard, leather-like sheath as soon as the sun ceased to show itself.
Their petals were of the tiniest, but from among them pushed up a little brush of stamens, whose pollen-filled heads trembled on white filaments.
The claws of the petals or of the divisions of the calyx of many flowers are furnished in a similar manner with muscles, which are exerted to open or close the corol and calyx of the flower as in tragopogon, anemone.
In April's glad shower Flash petals and leaves, Less bright than the flower Round thy heart that weaves!
Fold a piece of olive-green tissue paper in the same way as the white paper for the petals was folded, but once more, and cut it like Fig.
If he guesses correctly the petal belongs to him, and at the end of the game the player having the most petals has won.
Next fold the paper in the same way as for the petals described in the Daisy Game in this chapter.
The two lower petals will be cut in the same way but larger.
Slip the smaller pair of petalson the stem, then the larger pair (with a little paste between), so that the smaller pair will set directly across the larger.
Notice that there are only four petals (if it is a single poppy), the two smaller ones setting across the larger pair below.
Catch one of the poppy petals as it floats off from the flower, blown by a summer breeze.
Bend one end of the wire into a tiny ring and run the other end down through the centre of the yellow circles, then through the middle of the white circle with the petals on its edge, putting a touch of paste between the centre and the petals.
You may have noticed that the petals of the real ones look almost exactly like silky, crinkled paper.
After it is unfolded you may have to cut some of the petals up nearer to the centre.
Next cut some slips of paper just large enough to be pasted on the underside of the petals and write on each a number and a conundrum from the following list: 1.
There were a few days of inevitable sadness a little later when its million petals fell and made a delicate carpet of snow on the ground.
The petals fell upon Carnaby's face, upon his hair and shoulders; he was a white figure as he toiled.
A little gust of wind shook the tree; some petals came drifting down upon them, like white moths, like flakes of summer snow, a warning that the brief hour of perfection would soon be past .
A few white petals from the blossoming plum tree, scattered by the breeze, fell upon her black bonnet and shoulders.
It waved at the end of a long stalk; its petals were of a flame-like red; its form was unlike anything known, resembling somewhat a censer, from which issued golden stamens.
Illustration] Blue butterflies danced before me, mingling and dispersing like floating flower-petals in the air.
It was so much wiser than I, for when the sky was yet without a cloud, softly it clasped its little red petals together, folding its golden heart in safety from the shower that was sure to come!
The queen kissed Max, and her lips were cool and soft on his brow as the petals of the lotus blossom.
Above her and the sleeping baby leaned a tall bright angel, in garments soft and white like snow, with folded wings like the petals of some great white lily.
The crimson petals lay thick upon her face and hair.
They rocked lightly in the wind, and a shower of crimson petals fell.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "petals" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
