Rhizomes and stolons break up stiff soils; and every engineer and forester knows how useful certain grasses are in keeping the surface-soil from being washed down by heavy rains on steep hill-sides or embankments.
A glaucous shore plant with long creeping stolons (sand-binder).
The offsets are not produced close to the ground, consequently have no rootlets; neither, from their hairy character, can they resist rot from moisture so well when planted as if they were bald, like the stolons of other species.
On account of the underground stolons this grass cannot be eradicated easily.
This may be seen in the underground stolons of Panicum repens and in the ordinary aerial branches of Arundo Donax.
The presence of the remains of old leaves, underground stolons and rhizomes is also evidence showing the perennial character of the plant.
This is a tall perennial grass freely branching from the base and with stout stolons covered with shining sheaths.
The grass Cynodon dactylon develops several underground stolonswhich are covered with white scale leaves and whose terminal buds are hard and sharp so that they may be able to make their way through the soil.
Grasses in which stolons and prostrate branches occur have, in addition to the usual radiating crown of roots at the base, aerial roots growing out of the upper nodes of the branches and fixing them to the soil.
It is a tall, robust, perennial grass with rhizomes producing numerous creeping stolons densely covered with scaly-sheaths.
Underground stems such as stolons and rhizomes occur in some grasses.
But in perennials in addition to erect branches, creeping branches, stolons and rhizomes may occur.
The clump was fought with fire and dynamite, with the fans preventing the broken stolons from rooting themselves again.
The men in the balloons could see by the way the feet were raised that the inquisitive stolons were more and more entangling themselves in the webbing.
She laid the stolons on an enamelsurfaced table and busied herself with some apparatus.
Over the walk, interwoven stolons had been felted down into a ragged mat, repellent alike to foot and eye.
These plants indicate the affected grass may propagate its abnormal condition only through the extension of the already changed stolons or rhizomes.
The next day new stolons emerged from the mass, but now for the first time excitement seized us up in our bobbing post of observation.
The stiff, interwoven stolons caught; oil was applied unstintedly; the crackling and roaring and snapping could be heard by those well beyond the perimeter of the Grass and the terrific heat forced the temporary abandonment of the work.
Miss Francis, who had followed us down was busy collecting some of the stolons which were still floating lazily downward.
As the movement of the scythe swept the guillotined grass backward, the trailing stolons entangled themselves with the uncut stand, pulling the sheaves out of place and making the stacks ragged and inadequate looking.
Stolons from the basal rosette of leaves leafy throughout and ascending at the tip --82.
Receptaculites, Inner Surface of Outer Wall with the Stolons remaining on its Surface.
A plant which had been long cultivated in my kitchen garden, had spread by stolons so as to form a large bed or clump.
The crossed plants flowered first, and produced exactly twice as many flower-stems; and they afterwards increased by stolons to such an extent as almost to overwhelm the self-fertilised plants.
With Origanum vulgare, however, a cross between flowers on plants propagated by stolons from the same stock certainly increased slightly their fertility.
Root propagating bystolons tuberiferous at the extremity.
Pennaria another hydroid, which was lying on the bottom of an aquarium and which formed stolons at both ends a and b.
Its stolons attach themselves to solid bodies, and the stems appear on the side of the stolon exactly opposite the point or area of contact with the solid body.
This was done for the sake of observing how the growing stolons would pass through them.
We see from these three cases that stolons or runners circumnutate in a very complex manner.
It was shown in the last chapter that the stolons or runners of certain plants circumnutate largely, and that this movement apparently aids them in finding a passage between the crowded stems of adjoining plants.
Four stolons still attached to the plant were laid on damp sand in the back of a room, with their tips facing the north-east windows.
That the stolons are thus aided in passing over obstacles and in winding between the stems of the surrounding plants, the observations above given render almost certain.
Several stolons were laid on a flat surface of damp sand, in the same manner as with those of the strawberry.
Stolons consist of much elongated, flexible branches, which run along the surface of the ground and form roots at a distance from the parent-plant.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stolons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
