All unknown to them, they carry pollen on their furry bodies from flower to flower, and thus enable the pistils to set seed.
The stamens are many; the pistils five in the centre of the flower.
Inside it are the five cells of the core, and each has its seeds already forming, if the five pistils have each caught a grain of pollen for each of the embryo seeds its chamber of the core contained.
From pollen flowers the busy insects carry the golden dust to the forked pistils that set seeds.
Those with the forked pistils remain and grow into smooth fruits towards the end of summer.
Frequently, they are out and the scales dropped in February; but the yellow stamens and the long-tongued pistils do not rise above the grey fur until March, at least.
The stamens andpistils are organs of fructification, it being essential for the fertilization of the flowers that the pollen should come into contact with the stigma.
It must be remarked that, in the flowers of some plants, stamens alone are present, while others contain pistils only, although most flowers contain both organs.
He made the stamina and pistils the basis of his arrangement, which he was induced to do from the consideration of their great importance, as the parts most essential to fructification.
The orders or subdivisions of the classes are founded on the number of the pistils in the first thirteen.
The third (3) has pistils in abundance, but is destitute of stamens, and hence, will not bear alone.
PAGE Pistils numerous but cohering over each other in a solid mass on an elongated receptacle.
Pistils 3, spindle-shaped, tipped with a radiate many-cleft stigma.
Pistils 1--4; the slender style arising from near the base; achenes included in the tube of the persistent calyx.
Pistils 2--5, separate, but their styles conniving or slightly united.
We come on home to breakfast, I totin' de box wid de pistils befo' me on the roan.
Carpels orpistils consisting of a closed cavity containing the ovules and becoming the fruit.
Defn: A Linnæan class of plants, whose stamens and pistils are in distinct flowers in the same plant.
Defn: Hermaphrodite, or having both stamens and pistilsin every flower.
They are mostly perennial herbs having the stamens and pistils united in a single column, and normally three petals and three sepals, all adherent to the ovary.
Defn: Having a pistil or pistils; -- usually said of flowers having pistils but no stamens.
Defn: A Linnæan order of plants having threepistils or styles.
Linnæus, founded mainly on difference in number and position of the stamens and pistils of plants.
Defn: Having three pistilsor styles; of or pertaining to the Trigynia.
Defn: Having pistils and no stamens; pistillate; or, in cryptogamous plants, capable of receiving fertilization.
Hermaphrodite, or having both stamens and pistils in every flower.
A Linnæan class of plants, whose stamens and pistilsare in distinct flowers in the same plant.
No other than that sepals, petals, anthers and pistils are but leaves in disguise, and that we have detected nature returning to the form from which ages ago she began to transmute the parts of flowers in all their teeming diversity.
We come on home to breakfast, I totin’ de box wid de pistils befo’ me on de roan.
Stamens and pistils may even occur in separate plants, and some blossoms have no sepals or petals at all.
Other plants bear their stamens and pistils in separate blossoms.
Wide fly the little doors, back falls the blue hood, and the golden heart of stamens and pistils is ready with a welcome.
In early days, before stamens and pistils are ready for open air and wandering insects or pattering showers, you may find a dark blue bud in the meadow.
There's the first flower I came to; now let's see you find your pistils and stamens and thingamies.
The plants comprised in this division are called monopetalous, as they have their petals joined together, so as to form a cup for the stamens and pistils quite distinct from the calyx; and the stamens are attached to the corolla.
The different species of vines differ from each other chiefly in their leaves; but in the American grapes the calyx is sometimes entire, and sometimes the stamens and pistils are in different flowers.
The conversion of the stamens intopistils is in a large measure dependent upon the conditions of the soil.
In our next lecture we shall deal with a curious phenomenon in poppies, consisting in the change of the stamens into pistils and giving rise to a bright crown of secondary capsules around the central one.
Double tuberous begonias are ordinarily absolutely sterile throughout the summer, but towards autumn the new flowers become less and less altered, producing some normal stamens and pistils among the majority of metamorphosed organs.
As soon as the pistils have been impregnated, the fruits begin to set.
On each spike of blossoms the lower flowerets open first; and so, if you pick a half-blown spike, you will see that all the stamens are ripe below, and all the pistils above.
After thepistils have faded, the stamens ripen, and hang out at the end of long waving filaments, so as to discharge all their pollen with effect.
Each plantain blossom has both stamens and pistils, but the pistils come to maturity first, and are fertilised by pollen blown to them from some neighbouring spike.
His grandmother had told him, when he was quite a little fellow and was about to begin his school life, that every flower in the Garden of Paradise was a delicious cake, and that the pistils were full of wine.
Illustration: His grandmother had told him, when he was quite a little fellow and was about to begin his school life, that every flower in the Garden of Paradise was a delicious cake, and that the pistils were full of wine.
Giovannino; the ground of which has been retouched, or rather spoiled.
Better known than these is the name of Caligarino, in other words the little shoe-maker, a title derived from his first profession.
They are rarely met with in cabinets, though I saw one in Genoa, a Veronica, in possession of the Brignole family.
Biagio; as well as in the ceiling and in a chapel of S.
Girolamo, which decorates the Certosa, a copy from the original by Agostino.
He would have shone a distinguished ornament of the art, had not his career been thus untimely cut short by envy.
Agostino was timid, and extremely select, backward in resolve, difficult to please himself, and was never aware of a difficulty that he did not encounter, and attempt to vanquish it.
The young artists of Genoa, thus enriched in the course of a few years by fresh examples, entered on a new career, and adopted a more vigorous and grander style than they had before practised.
Pasinelli himself ceased to exist, on the opening of the new century, leaving the entire credit of the preceptorship in the hands of Cignani.
Besides his other works, that city has to boast the rich cupola of S.
He must be seen where he painted alone; and he shines no where more than in Genoa, nor beyond a period of twelve years, within which space Soprani circumscribes his best time.
His inequality is well known, but not owing to any maxim of his art.
The approach of the anthers in many flowers to the stigmas, and of the pistils of some flowers to the anthers, must be ascribed to the passion of love, and hence belongs to sensation, not to irritation.
That is to say, flowers possessing both stamens, or male organs, andpistils or female organs.
Why should the sepals, petals, stamens, and pistils in any individual flower, though fitted for such widely different purposes, be all constructed on the same pattern?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pistils" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
