From the center of the cup make a pistil in Green, 781.
The black thorns and white petals became an angry ship-wrecking ring of ax-headed rocks, furious with surf; and the delicate pistil assumed the stature of the Nelson Column.
As the sky brightened behind it, he saw, rising upright, like the single slim pistil of those rough white petals, the faint shaft of the light-house itself.
The little cob, which corresponds to the pistil in other plants, is covered with small and undeveloped kernels, and to each kernel one of the strands of so-called silk is attached.
Examine flowers of different ages and trace the change from the minute pistil to the pod.
When on the moist, sticky top of the pistil, these little pollen-grains soon begin to grow, sending a delicate tube down to the bottom of the pistil to the ovary.
That part of the pistil which connects the ovary with the stigma.
A long pistil increases danger of damage from heat and drying out.
Varieties differ in protrusion of pistil beyond the stamen column.
To damage to floral parts as the blasting of the pistil by heat and drouth.
In other cases the anthers are ripe before the pistilis ready to receive the pollen: these are proterandrous.
In one large group (Apetalae) the pistil and stamens are not surrounded by petals, e.
This pistilhas five styles and five stigmas," he went on.
Some flowers have stamens that wither before the pistil is ready for the pollen.
While in the blossom's center Doth the sturdy pistil grow, With stigma and with style that lead To seed-cups just below.
The filament is the stem, the anther is its cap, and the pollen is the dust which falls on the pistil and helps to make the seed.
The pistil and the calyx of a flower are the parts that last longest, but the stamens and the corolla are just as useful in their way.
In the pear and quince it is the calyx, like the apple; in the raspberry each little part is a separate pistil with one seed, as I believe I showed you once, last summer.
It is the pollen falling from the anthers upon the single green stem or pistil in the center of the flower that produces the seed.
Of course, it was soft then, and thepistil below was soft, too.
The pistil is connected with the ovaries, the stamens furnish the pollen that must come in contact with the pistil; in other words, it must be impregnated by this dust from the stamens, or no fruit will be produced.
In the spurges, as in the other members of the order, the flowers are very simple, being often reduced to a single stamen or pistil (Fig.
In either case the spores germinate when placed upon this receptive part (stigma) of the pistil, and send their tubes down through the tissues of the pistil until they reach the ovules, which are fertilized much as in the gymnosperms.
The upper part of the pistil is variously modified, having either little papillæ which hold the pollen spores, or are viscid.
The pistil merely opens up a bit and down travels the powder into the seed vessel to help form seed.
He carefully took some pollen from the beautiful pansy and then rubbed it gently over the pistil of the big pansy.
Now, when this pollen powder falls on the pistil it does not explode.
The pistil is that part of the flower which ends in the seed vessel.
Gently pull the pistil a bit forward, gently place the pollen on with the scalpel and you have performed the operation entirely with the proper instruments.
Some flowers have both pistils and stamen, while others have just the pistil and one has to hunt for another plant having the stamen.
They remain in good condition for two days; on the third day the stamens wilt and drop down, but the pistil remains erect till the fourth day.
On the first day of opening the pistil is not so long as the stamens by ¾ in.
And this capsule had been the oblong, three-sided ovary, which formed the body of the pistil in some beautiful Tulip.
This great legume or pod had been the bottom of the pistil of a papilionaceous flower, crowned by a tiny stigma, lodged in a sheath formed by the united stamens, and surrounded by a corolla of refulgent scarlet petals.
The result of the curvature is that the pistil is much more easily bent than would be the case if the style were straight.
Calyx of four sepals; corolla of 4 petals in form of a cross; 6 stamens; 1 compound pistil with a 2-lobed style.
At first they are male; that is, the pistil is as yet undeveloped and the four stamens are mature, ready to shed pollen on any insect alighting on the lip.
As the pistil within the ring of stamens develops and rises through their midst, two little hair brushes on its tip sweep the pollen from their anthers as a rounded brush would remove the soot from a lamp chimney.
Usually a bee, simply by alighting on the wings of a blossom belonging to the pea family, releases the stamens and pistil from the keel; not so here.
Later, when the stamens are past maturity, the pistil elongates itself and is ready for the reception of pollen brought from younger flowers.
From the fact that a blossom has a lip in the center of the lower half of its corolla, that an insect must use as its landing place, comes the necessity for the pistil to occupy a central position.
The pistil of the lily, however, is not a single structure.
These units are called carpels, and the pistil of the lily is made up of three carpels.
In some flowers there is but a single carpel, as in peas and beans, whose pods have developed from a pistil consisting of a single carpel, as is indicated by the single lengthwise set of seeds.
It is evident, therefore, that a pistil may consist of one carpel or several carpels, and that in the latter case the carpels may be more or less completely united.
The most essential region of the pistil is the ovary, for it contains the ovules.
In other flowers the stamens may be lacking, and as the pistil is the only essential part present such flowers are said to be pistillate.
Stigma, (plural stigmas and stigmata,) the summit or top of the pistil of a flower.
Style, or Stile, the part of the pistil between the germ and the stigma.
That part of a pistil which has no epidermis, and is fitted to receive the pollen.
When composed of one carpel a pistil is simple; when composed of several, it is compound.
Having a pistil or pistils; -- usually said of flowers having pistils but no stamens.
The condition of certain species of plants, in which the stamens and pistil do not mature simultaneously, so that these plants can never fertilize themselves.
The part of a pistil or fruit to which the ovules or seeds are attached.
That part of the pistil which contains the seed, and in most flowering plants develops into the fruit.
Having stamens and pistil in the same head, or, in mosses, having antheridia and archegonia on the same receptacle.
The pedicel raising the pistilor ovary above the stamens, as in the passion flower.
The elongated part of a pistil between the ovary and the stigma.
If the operation has been successful, the pistil will soon begin to wither; if not perfect, the pistil will continue fresh and full for some days.
Yet the pistil of each cabbage-flower is surrounded not only by its own six stamens, but by those of the many other flowers on the same plant.
There must sometimes be a physical impossibility in the male element reaching the ovule, as would be the case with a plant having a pistil too long for the pollen-tubes to reach the ovarium.
Thus in plants, the office of the pistil is to allow the pollen-tubes to reach the ovules protected in the ovarium at its base.
The pollen grains are seen adhering to the surface of the stigma, and the tube is pushing its way down the pistil to the germen.
These valves are seen in the figure, and the pistil is exhibited in section, to show the ovules in the cavity of the germen.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pistil" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: corona; flower; petal; pistil; receptacle; stamen; stigma; style
