Leaves: Compounded of 3 to 6 pairs of oblong leaflets somewhat larger than halberd-shaped stipules at base of leaf; branched tendrils at end of it.
The leaves may be compounded of three oblong or ovate, saw-edged leaflets, or merely three-lobed, and with small stipules at their base.
Leaves: Enfolded in the bud by stipules that fall later and leave rings around gradually lengthening branch; the leaves 3 to 6 in.
Palmately divided, with from one to sixteen leaflets; stipules adnate; seldom conspicuous.
Trees or shrubs, with slender branches armed with spinescent stipules or infrastipular spines.
Seringe relates the occasional presence of two or three additionalstipules upon the leaf-stalks of Salix fragilis, and even makes a variety (Salix pendula, var.
In one instance seen by the writer every portion of the leaf of a rose was deficient, except the stipules and a small portion of the petiole.
The leaves are opposite, and furnished with stipules The flowers form a corymb in the Scarlet Verbena, and a spike in some of the other kinds, which elongates gradually as the flowers expand.
The plants belonging to this order have alternate leaves, which are generally compound, and frequently have the common petiole tumid; they have also twostipules at the base of the petiole, and frequently two others to each leaflet.
The petioles are short and thick, and there are large stipules which wither and fall off before the leaves.
The leaves of these plants either sheath the stem with the base of their petioles, or are furnished with ochreae, that is, with stipules which are joined together so as to form a kind of purse or boot.
The leaves are simple, and the stipules awl-shaped.
The leaves are furnished with very large stipules (see fig.
Lindley in the last edition of his Introduction to Botany, says, "What stipules really are is not well made out.
Nearly all the species have very narrow leaves, with prominent stipules at the base; and their flowers grow in erect or horizontal catkins with undivided scales.
Stipules small, very narrow and pointed, usually attached part way up to the leafstalk.
Its prostrate stems are of the same length as those of the Spotted Medick; and its leaves are also very similar, but the stipules are bordered with very fine teeth.
It varies from one to four feet in height; and its alternate leaves are heart-shaped or arrow-shaped, pointed, with short membranous stipules at the base of the stalk.
The stem is stout and downy, and the pinnate leaves have membranous stipules and numerous oblong leaflets which terminate abruptly in a point.
The midrib of the leaf is covered below with irritating, glandular hairs, somewhat resembling those of nettles in structure and function; and the stipules are deciduous, falling early in the season.
Its stipules are larger than those of the Dutch Clover; the pod contains only two seeds; and the flowers are usually pinkish.
The leaves have, usually, a dark-coloured patch in the centre; and the stipules are fringed at the top with fine, stiff hairs.
Simple leaf with blade, leafstalk (petiole), and two stipules at the base.
Common petioles thorny, with 4 leaf-like stipulesat the base.
Petioles very short, clasping the stem at their base, with 2 intermediatestipules ending in two awl-shaped points.
Common petiole with 2 awl-shaped stipules at the base.
Petioles longer than the leaves, with 2 stipules at the base.
Common petiole with 2 horizontalstipules at the base.
Common petiole swollen at the base, 2 stipules and 1 glandule.
Petioles long with two awl-shaped stipules at the base, and a large violet spot in the axil.
Leaflets 5-8 pairs, glabrous, ovate and elliptical, bearing a spine at the extremity, 3 stipules to each pair of leaflets.
The stipules of the leaves act as protecting scale-leaves in the winter-bud and fall when the bud opens in spring.
The stipules are between the leaf-stalks, each consisting of two lateral ones united, or rarely with the tips free.
Style with a tuft of hairs at the apex; lateral petals of the corolla adherent to the lower ones as far as the middle; stipules less than 10 mm.
Style hairy along the inner side; lateral petals of the corolla free from the lower ones or adherent only at the very base; stipules more than 8 mm.
Stipules large and leaf-like, deeply pinnatifid and nearly or quite as long as the petioles --18.
VI) occur on either side of the leaf-scar; these are scars left by the fall of a pair of small leaflets called stipules and located at the base of the leaves, and their form varies according to the form of the stipules which made them.
Stipules if present sheathing the stem; sepals three to six.
The leaves are of all sorts and shapes, usually more or less lobed and cut, but have no stipules and often their bases clasp the stem.
A large family, widely distributed, mostly herbs or low shrubs, with toothless leaves, often with stipules sheathing the swollen joints of the stem.
The stipules are large, broad and leafy, and the leaflets are usually ten in number, veined and thin in texture, one or two inches long, with tendrils.
They also discover the minute nectar-secreting glands on the stipules and leaves of certain plants.
An analogous fact with respect to the sweet excretion from the stipules of Vicia sativa has been already given.
The hive-bees never even looked at the flowers which were open at the same time; whilst two species of humble-bees neglected the stipules and visited only the flowers.
Buds flat, sheathed by the successive pairs of flat and broad stipules joined at their edges, the folded leaves bent down on the petiole so that the apex points to the base of the bud.
The leaves, which fall spontaneously at the end of each season, are alternate, petiolate, with double intra-accillary stipules at the base.
The stipules at the base of the long foot-stalk are small or altogether wanting.
They have waved margins without teeth, and the upper surface netted with veins, the under surface silvery and silky; stipules narrow lance-shaped.
There are half-heart-shaped stipulesat the base of the very short leaf-stalk.
Some sorts of peas bear colored flowers and a red mark on the stipules of their leaves.
In the garden pea the stipulesare large and foliaceous, replacing the leaflets, which are tendrils; in Robinia the stipules are spiny and persist after leaf-fall.
Part of stem and leaf of Prince's-Feather (Polygonum orientale) with the united sheathing stipules forming a sheath or ocrea.
Leaf of Lathyrus Aphaca, consisting of a pair of stipulesand a tendril.
When stipules are green and leaf-like they act as so much foliage.
When the two stipules unite and sheathe the stem above the insertion, as in Polygonum (Fig.
The stipules are spines or prickles in Locust and several other Leguminous trees and shrubs; they are tendrils in Smilax or Greenbrier.
In one European Vetch, the leaflets are wanting and the whole petiole is a tendril, while the stipules become the only foliage (Fig.
Fugacious, falling early, as the stipules of many leaves.
Most Willows show the stipules on the young luxuriant growths.
Shrubs or small trees with deciduous, alternate, simple, straight-veined leaves with large stipules that remain most of the season.
The stipules are often absent, and, even when present, they frequently fall off as soon as the leaves expand; sometimes they are conspicuous.
The stipules are always free from the leafstalk and attached to the twig at small spots just below the leafstalk.
Stipules often large, leaf-like, and more or less persistent through the summer; sometimes scale-like and dropping early.
Wood soft; both kinds of flowers in catkins in spring; with eitherstipules or stipular sears 91.
Stipules scarcely attached to the petiole, bristle-shaped, but fringed.
Stipules very narrow, connate with the petiole, almost entire, or serrate.
Stipules bristle-like, scarcely attached to the petiole, rather glossy, deciduous.
Leaves dense, usually shining; prickles placed under the stipules in pairs.
When the bud opens, and the leaf goes out into the world, the stipules stay behind.
THE LEAF A leaf has a stem, and of stipules a pair, Though the stipules are often quite small, or not there.
Sometimes they are very tiny, and some plants have no stipules at all.
The stipules are a part of the outside of the leaf-bud.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stipules" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
