Clematis Viorna) of the Middle and Southern States having thick, leathery sepals of a purplish color.
Having only one sepal, or the calyx in one piece or composed of the sepals united into one piece; gamosepalous.
The most recent writers restrict this term to flowers having a solarity sepal, and use gamosepalous for a calyx formed by severalsepals combined into one piece.
Having tubercles or grainlike processes, as the petals or sepals of some flowers.
The metamorphosis of other floral organs into sepals or sepaloid bodies.
Lilium tigrinum, thesepals of which are blotched with black.
In the Anemone the petals are absent; the sepals take their place and are white instead of green.
The sepals of a plant generally enclose the blossom before it is opened, and they are usually green.
Among the novelties in color, we find mention of Aurora Superba; tube and sepals rich salmon, corolla large and spreading of a distinct orange scarlet highly suffused with yellow, fine habit and free bloomer.
Flower bud ovate-globose; sepals spreading during the time of the flowering.
Roughness of fruit and permanence of sepals are common to both.
The species contained in the present section are all setigerous, by which they are distinguished from the following divisions; their thickened disk and divided sepals separate them from the preceding.
Damascena by the sepals not being reflexed, and the flowers having their petals curved inwards, so as, in the double state, to give the flower the appearance of the heart of a cabbage, whence the name of the Cabbage Rose.
Sepals pinnate, and bristly, as well as the peduncles.
To my surprise it has since proved a perfect hybrid, having the sepals and the fruit of the Provence Rose, with the spiny and dwarf habit of the Scotch Rose; it bears abundance of hips, which are all abortive.
The permanent sepals are another character by which this tribe may be known from Caninæ.
Its flowers bloom from midsummer till frost, and have a striking appearance; they are very double, with a calyx of which the small, bristling sepals give the opening bud the appearance of a small chestnut.
In all of them there are no petals and in some both petals and sepals are lacking, leaving only essential organs.
The figures on page 44 show a regular flower, with five separate petals and sepals (Fig.
None of those so far mentioned have any petals to their flowers, but in the pink family or Caryophyllaceæ we find the first evidences on any considerable scale of the presence of sepalsand petals, the latter usually beautifully colored.
Sepals always present, and where no petals are found, as in marsh-marigold, colored like them.
Some of the families that have separate sepals agree in having the stamens inserted below the ovary.
Taking first those families that have neither petals nor sepals we find that most of them bear their flowers in catkins, a flower cluster familiar enough in the pussy willow.
All the others, while still without petals, do have sepals and some of these are colored so that insect visitors are likely.
The flowers, among the most gorgeous in the world, are always irregular in the sense that there is no obvious series of sepals and petals.
Somewhat farther along in the sequence are a group of families, large and important, and all having their stamens inserted around or even above the ovary, and in which the sepals are partly or wholly united.
The character of having partly united sepals and numerous stamens inserted around, or even above the ovary, give to all the flowers of the Rosaceæ and related plants a general family resemblance that is very striking.
Sepals often colored white or pink so the flowers are sometimes at least insect-pollinated.
The 5 to 7 sepalsor lobes of the calyx are white and like petals, and the petals of the corolla, 5 to 7 in number, are smaller, club shaped, and yellow at the base.
The upper sepal is frequently the showiest feature in the flower; the lower sepals are joined and arranged behind the lip, whilst the petals extend on each side and vary much in form.
There are several curious species of Trigonidium, with the sepals usually developed and arranged differently to Orchids generally.
The sepals and petals drop off early and the stamens lengthen, so that the cluster becomes very airy and delicate.
Califórnicum is similar, but with more flowers, the sepals and petals greenish-yellow, the lip pinkish.
When the petals have fallen off, the four small fruits are left inside the cup-like sepals; the flower-stalk when dry is very elastic, and if an animal touches the sepals it swings violently and shoots out one of the fruits.
The fruit also flies out of the sepals in a line of flight which is inclined at an angle of about forty-five degrees to the horizon; at this angle, as is well known, the trajectory or distance travelled will be the greatest possible.
These tubular flowers, with their four shortsepals at the ends, are in fact the cloves of commerce.
These flowers have their petals concealed in the centre of the calyx opening, but the sepals (false petals or petal-like leaves which often precede the real petals in flowers) stick out in four projections round the mouth of the calyx.
The sepals are beautifully ciliated, with glandular teeth.
Thus in the Ranunculaceae we find the conspicuous part of the flower to be the petals in Ranunculus, the sepals in Helleborus, Anemone, etc.
Behind all, I see the sepals of the calyx, peeping out between the petals, and forming a fine dark background for them, and for the longer filaments.
In a variety of the species, however, the sepals and petals are six in number.
The chief features of the order are jointed, herbaceous stems, opposite leaves, and regular white or red flowers with four or five sepals and petals, eight or ten stamens, and a capsular fruit opening at the top with teeth.
The flowers are mostly small and white, with fivesepals (when present), five petals, and five stamens.
In such flowers we count the sepals by the small notches on top.
In other flowers the sepals have grown together so they appear to be only one sepal.
In a polysepalous calyx the number of the parts is indicated by Greek numerals prefixed; thus, a calyx which has three sepals is trisepalous; one with five sepals is pentasepalous.
There are two sepals which fall off before the petals expand.
In such cases the tube varies in length, and the parts in their union follow the reverse order of what occurs in the calyx, where two sepals are united in the lower lip and three in the upper.
In a gamosepalous calyx the sepalsare united in various ways, sometimes very slightly, and their number is marked by the divisions at the apex.
When the stamens are not equal in number to the sepals or petals, the flower is anisostemonous.
If the stamens are double the sepals or petals as regards number, the flower is diplostemonous; if more than double, polystemonous.
Fruit of Rosa alba, consisting of the fleshy hollowed axis s', the persistent sepals s, and the carpels fr.
In Pelargonium the spur from one of the sepals is adherent to the flower-stalk.
The sepals occasionally are of different forms and sizes.
The part formed by the union of the sepalsis called the tube of the calyx; the portion where the sepals are free is the limb.
When there is only one whorl the stamens are usually equal in number to the sepalsor petals, and are arranged opposite to the former, and alternate with the latter.
F, we have a lotus with curling sepals on pots from Cyprus; no one can dispute that these are really lotuses.
The calyx has only four coarse sepals which are dark green in colour, and which entirely encase the bud until it begins to open.
For this again there are any number of Egyptian originals in which the trefoil indicates a lotus flower; in this case all the petals have been eliminated and only the sepals persist.
The curling sepalsbecome more spiral in Rhodian (Fig.
A flower, however, could live without sepals or petals and still do the work for which it exists.
Certain outer parts of the flower, the sepals (s) and receptacle, become the fleshy part of the fruit, while the ovary becomes the core.
In six out of thirty of the closed flowers in an Indian violet (name unknown, for the plants have never produced with me perfect flowers), the sepals are reduced from the normal number of five to three.
Calyx double, composed of 5 narrow sepals externally, and 5 colored sepals internally alternating with the outer ones.
Calyx of 12 sepals arranged in 3 whorls, the inner ones broad and petaloid.
Calyx inferior, funnelform, with 4-5 sepals as long as the corolla.
Calyx double; the outer sepals 8-9 in number, awl-shaped; the inner ones are larger and separate unequally when the flower expands.
Male flowers consist of a perianth without corolla, the sepals arranged by threes in two or three whorls.
This bud looks as though some worm had eaten off its end; but we soon see that its blunt appearance is due to the fact that the long prongs of the sepals are neatly folded in upon themselves, like the jointed leg of an insect.
The flowers are larger, thesepals being an inch long, and covered with a silky pubescence, which makes them like soft cream-colored velvet.
The petals are bright rose-pink, while the sepals are of a red pink.
The long, twisted sepals and petals and the oval sac give these blossoms the aspect of some floral daddy-long-legs or some weird brownie of the wood.
These flowers with four hairy sepalsand four stamens with distinct filaments.
Sepals and petals about equal; two lines long; obtuse.
Brownish; eighteen to thirty lines long; the two lowersepals united nearly to the apex.
The sepals are veined with deeper lilac and blotched with orange.
Without sepals and petals, sunk in a conical spike; six to eighteen lines long; a small white bract under each flower.
Its scarlet stamens, purple-pink petals, and often deeper purple sepals make an odd combination of color.
The faded sepals crown the long seed-vessel, like the flame of the conventional torch seen in old pictures.
The threesepals flare outward, the petals form the cup.
A single apple blossom has its five flaring petals inside of five green sepals that are the bud's green overcoat.
As the pointed buds push upward, the protecting scales grow rapidly larger, and the outer ones turn back like the sepals of an iris.
It had honey-secreting glands on its young leaves and on the sepals of the flower buds.
I found many plants so protected; the glands being specially developed on the young leaves, and on the sepals of the flowers.
In the popular sense there are no flowers, for there are neither sepals nor petals, each set of sexual organs being protected merely by a scale.
In its floral arrangements the Lime differs from the trees previously mentioned in that it has distinct sepals and petals, an abundance of honey, and strong, sweet fragrance as of Honeysuckle.
The sepals of the female flower vary in number, from four to twelve, and enclose a rounded ovary with three styles, which are ripe and protruded before the males open.
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