The six sepals, petals, and stamens are all opposite, that is, with a petal in front of each sepal and a stamen in front of each petal.
In a pentamerous flower one sepal may be superior, as in the calyx of Rosaceae and Labiatae; or it may be inferior, as in the calyx of Leguminosae (fig.
The horn-like nectaries under the galeate sepal of aconite (fig.
Defn: The blade of a leaf; the broad, expanded portion of a petal or sepal of a flower.
The hood-formed upper sepal or petal of some flowers, as of the monkshood or the snapdragon.
This cup looks as if it was only in two pieces; but, as in the Common Whin, it is really made up of five sepals, and you can often see five little teeth at the mouth which show where each sepal begins.
Round the mouth of the cup are five sharp teeth, and you can see, much more clearly than in the Common Whin or in the Broom, where each separate sepal begins.
The Dog Violet has five green sepals with very sharp points, and the lower part of eachsepal is slightly swollen.
In the case of peloric aconites[234] the lateral and sometimes the inferior coloured sepals assume the hooded form usually peculiar to the upper sepal only, the number of the petals or nectaries being correspondingly increased.
The position of the spur in a line with the posterior sepal has led many botanists to consider it as a process of that sepal, but the fact of its being situated within the insertion of the petals is conclusive as to its receptacular origin.
The dislocation of the affected sepal from its fellows is a very frequent occurrence; in cases of this kind the detached sepal is placed below the others, thus approximating, in position as well as in function, to the bracts.
Moreover, the anteposed sepal is exactly like the other, has a good midrib and an entire point.
In Cattleya violacea the writer has met with a flower in which the uppermost sepal was entirely wanting, while two of the lateral petals were fused together.
Kirschleger, however, has recorded the existence of a cirrhose sepal in Cucurbita Pepo.
In one flower of the last-named species the perianth consisted of one sepal only, and one lip-like petal placed opposite to it.
Its dorsal sepal measures three inches in length, its "tail," five inches, with an enormous lip between.
A notable variety--very large, blush-white, with one enormous chocolate blot and two or three small spots on sepal and petal.
Imschootiana is huge even above its fellows, for a flower may be nine inches across; the colour of sepal and petal mauve, with a crimson-purple lip of splendour beyond conception.
Measures is best of all--a famous variety--white of sepal and petal.
White of sepal and petal, with the vast magenta-crimson lip of Hardyana.
The yellow ground colour shows itself only in a few narrow streaks upon sepal and petal, and in the base of the lip.
White or palest rose of sepal and petal, the latter marked with purplish lines at the base.
Rosy white of sepal and petal, bordered with yellow and barred with chestnut; lip pale yellow, much deeper at the base, with chestnut spots in the centre.
Its extraordinary colour is best described as madder-brown, but here we have a variety of which the ends of the sepal and petal are yellowish.
Large, very broad ofsepal and petal, pale yellow, blotched and spotted with brown.
Among the rare Cypripeds in this collection, I have noted several of which the dorsal sepal bore a cap, elaborate as eccentric in shape.
Upper sepal and toothed petals erect; the lip of deepest shade, 1/2 in.
Fertile flowers spiked-clustered, 1-bracted; the calyx of a single sepal enlarging at the base and folded round the ovary.
Named from the shape of the larger sepal of the fertile flower in the original species, which partly covers the achene, like the pileus, or felt cap, of the Romans.
Calyx of a single delicate sepal on the inner side.
A hooded or helmet-shaped portion of a perianth, as the upper sepal of Aconitum, and the upper lip of some bilabiate corollas.
Upper sepal hooded, covering the two long-clawed small petals.
Flowers dioecious; the sterile racemed or panicled; the fertile in clusters or catkins, the calyx of one sepal embracing the ovary.
For simplification of diagram, vertical position of sepalis not always shown in the figure.
Figure to the left represents one electric contact made with sepal of Nymphaea, and the other, with the flower-stalk by means of the probe; the included galvanometer is represented by a circle.
While the sepal is held vertical, the stalk is displaced through +90 deg.
The hood-formed upper sepalor petal of some flowers, as of the monkshood or the snapdragon.
The blade of a leaf; the broad, expanded portion of a petal or sepal of a flower.
In Pelargonium the flower is zygomorphic with a spurred posterior sepal and the petals differing in size or shape.
Galea, a helmet-shaped body, as the upper sepal of the Monkshood, 87.
Produced, extended or projecting; the uppersepal of a Larkspur is produced above into a spur, 87.
Helmet, the upper sepal of Monkshood is so called.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sepal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: blade; bract; flag; frond; leaf; leaflet; needle; petal; pile; spear; spire
