The lower leaves of the bayonet plants, already overshadowed by the newer ones above, were beginning to wilt and shrivel so that we could thrust our way in among the thickening stems without serious injury.
And, turning about, we saw indistinctly through a crowd of swaying stems the mooncalf's shining sides, and the long line of its back loomed out against the sky.
The long, transparent stems of the flowers broke crisply between her fingers, as she heard her name called.
Gifford was silent, and began to pick three long stems of grass and braid them together.
Portions of these, however, as well as sections of stems and fruit, may be usefully dried on small squares of thin mica, for subsequent microscopic examination, or they may be mounted on the ordinary microscope slides.
Light-brown sandy clay, with leaves and stems of plants 3 ft.
Handles for table knives and forks, tools, and other implements have been made from the thick stems of oarweeds, and fishing lines from Chorda filum.
Stems of Laminaria thrown out by the waves should also be carefully examined.
They are popularly known as tangle or oarweeds, and the stems of Laminaria saccharina and the midrib of Alaria esculenta are used as food.
Other species form a greenish or dirty cloud on the stems and leaves of other aquatic plants, and by stripping the plant between the fingers these also may be similarly detached and secured.
Yes," she said, "I often look at them, and wish I could see the low sunlight on the stems again.
You will look like a tall Hamadryad, dark and strong and noble, just issued from one of the fir-trees, when the stems are casting their afternoon shadows on the grass.
She was clamly enjoying the free air, while she looked up at the old fir-trees, and thought that those broken ends of branches were the records of past storms, which had only made the red stems soar higher.
This contributes largely to giving stiffness to the stems of growing plants, and in most of our cereals and grasses makes up a large proportion of the ashes of the burned plant.
But I kep' him from it, and told him that we could just put the stems in our mouths, and pretend to smoke enough to be polite.
Many were observed six inches in diameter; the stems of the two last plants were used by us, during our stay, for fuel.
I watched him lazily as I chewed one of those green stems on which girls tell fortunes.
The ends of her tulle collarette had been carefully disordered and a big bunch of red flowers was pinned in her bosom stems upwards.
In all moorland countries the ling is applied to many rural purposes; the larger stems are made into brooms, the shorter tied up into bundles that serve as brushes, while the long trailing shoots are woven into baskets.
Ling has been suggested as a material for paper, but the stems are hardly sufficiently fibrous for that purpose.
Silica is present in the stems of certain plants, such as wheat, many grasses, to which the shining appearance of the stems is due, &c.
A mixture of white arsenic and the powdered stems of Orobanche virginiana (Linn.
A plant in which the stems are woody, and which usually divide near the ground into numerous branches and twigs, e.
A perennial, the stems of which are persistent throughout the whole of its life, e.
A perennial the stems of which die down to the ground every year, e.
A plant, the stems of which remain soft or succulent, e.
An American nostrum, composed of the powderedstems of the Orobanche Virginiana (Linn.
The inmost circle of the mound was carpeted with dry gray reindeer moss, and before me, in the centre of the circle, drooped on slender stems seven rose-red moccasin flowers.
In the midst of the marsh were rows of the fruit-stems of the sensitive fern, which is the first to blacken before the frost.
Suddenly he noted a movement in the grass, and as he watched, a tawny little meadow mouse climbed up the grass-stems and popped into the hole in the side, to find out what this inquisitive race of giants had been doing to his house.
The stalk and flower-stems looked like green candelabra, while the unopened blossoms showed sharp edges like beech-nuts.
Ploughing through slush, the black rhododendron stems twisted around us like wet rubber, and the hollow green leaves funneled ice-water down our backs and into our ears.
At present, tree planters are more fastidious, and object to these irregularities in the stems of their trees.
The most successful treatment is to scrape off the loose bark, and to apply to the stems of the trees alkaline or lime washes.
This is not desirable when the bushes are liable to have the stems destroyed by the currant borer.
The perfect insect may be seen running up and down the stems of our trees, in June and July.
Wrapping the stems with strips of rags or with ropes of hay, was formerly the method practiced by those who wished to save their young trees; the process is tedious and troublesome.
Plants are differently affected; some wither and cease to grow, their leaves and stems become sickly, and die from exhaustion.
Harris' classification, the Zeuzerians, a group of moths which, like AEgerians among the Sphinges, pierce the roots and stems of trees.
The trees are inclined at an angle, generally leaning towards the south, so as to have the stemsshaded by their own branches.
Here we kindled our fire, in a tall poplar forest, where stems two feet thick nearly formed a circle.
We observed that the stems of the poplars, to the height of five feet, or fifteen feet above the present level of the river, had the bark rubbed off by the ice.
When the stems were withered, the farmer put additional earth on the potatoes in the beds where they grew, in which condition they remained till towards Christmas, when they were dug out and stored.
Its clasp takes in the frail flower bending from slender stems and the stars in their courses.
Many of these stems were twenty feet high, with sharp, strong tops, so that even as they stood they made formidable spears.
Of such stems he observed at least seventeen at ten different levels.
They remind the geologist of the prostrate position of large stems of Sigillaria and Lepidodendron, converted into coal in ancient Carboniferous rocks.
The underclays beneath the seam of coal were full of stems and rootlets of Stigmaria, and the sight of these confirmed him in the opinion that the coal was formed of the remains of plants which had grown upon the spot.
Their stems are thin and wiry, and their small white flowers, globular in shape, make the azure blossoms of the flax all the lovelier by contrast.
In a moment he had tangled his legs among thick-growing, ropey stems of water-lilies, and frightened and confused at finding himself a prisoner, went down again under the green surface.
Once fairly perched in the tuft of the tree among the stems of the enormous leaves, where he looked scarcely larger than a monkey, he quickly supplied us with as many cocoa-nuts as we could put to present use.
For lack of more interesting occupation, I began to count the stems of the grove-tree.
Their craft is simply three or four stems of the giant bamboo turned up at the forward end; on this the naked fisherman stands and propels himself by means of a slender pole.
The thick, dead stems and branching tops of last year's plants are seen by the thousands, sturdily holding their ground among the rank young shoots of the new growth.
Twelve stems go to a bunch always, and the aim is to arrange the flowers so that they shall present a compact lozenge shape, crisp and tight.
Varieties are never mixed when tied, the bunches are passed on to another department, where the uneven stems are sliced off, and the flowers set in water to await packing.
Dorothy, and as they did so the royal lady leaned toward them and the stems snapped and separated from her feet.
You will notice they are all attached to the plants by the soles of their feet, and when they are quite ripe they are easily separated from the stems and at once attain the powers of motion and speech.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stems" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
