The flowers are greenish-yellow, and not particularly pretty or attractive.
The tall spires of the scarlet bugler are such familiar sights along southern roadsides and sandy washes that people almost forget the enthusiastic admiration their bright beauty first elicited.
Thus on a whorl from Troy, crooked rays, turned towards the right, alternate with straight and undulating rays, all of which proceed from the same disc (Fig.
The central boss, as in a, is derived from the spire of the conch shell, and the encircling knobs from the nodulated rim of the outer whorl of the shell.
In this arrangement, the leaves of each whorl stand over the spaces of the whorljust below.
There is no satisfactory explanation of this break in the regular alternation of successive whorls; the outer whorl of stamens arises in course of development before the inner, so that there is no question of subsequent displacement.
In Erodium the members of the outer whorl are reduced to scale-like structures (staminodes), and in Pelargonium from two to seven only are fertile.
A node is a branch-whorl which has continued to adhere to the stalk.
The flower necessarily stands in a whorl-shaped manner, because it is the end of the branch; it is the terminal whorl of the plant.
The pistil is thus a leaf-whorl like the corolla, and one which is subject to the same fatalities, only with this difference, that its leaves are wont to open first after it has withered, and consequently through physical forces.
Although we regard the corolla as a whorl of leaves, namely, as several leaf-buds approximated, a yet clearer insight into its numbers and positional relations is attained, by viewing it only as the lobes of a single leaf.
The winds violent Trees falling in every derection, whorl winds, with gusts of rain Hail & Thunder, this kind of weather lasted all day, Certainly one of the worst days that ever was!
By and by, the tiny shell increased, and the outerwhorl lengthened, putting on a long-oval figure.
A small whorl of red grit, and a water-worn pebble that may have been used as a net weight or sinkstone (a).
That bright little whorl of life all at once looked white, refused his food with the pallid pitiful smile of an octogenarian and, in a twinkling it seemed, his cheeks were burning, his eyes glittered dryly and his lips were parched.
That humming bird, whorlof triumphant aspiration that it is--aspiration of insect to become bird--seems in a manner to embody my life story.
Two objects of pietra ollare (a small spindle-whorl and a dish turned on the wheel) and a bronze buckle were found among the disturbed beds on the surface.
One thin spindle-whorl 2 inches in diameter had a few punctured dots on its surface, intended as an ornamentation.
A small perforated stone, like a whorl or distaff weight.
One spindle-whorl of stone and three of clay (=Fig.
The outer whorl of leaves, under the protection of which the real flower is brought to maturity.
The innerwhorl of leaves, forming the flower itself.
A white blossom from six inches to a foot across is bound to attract attention and admiration when set off by a whorlof lustrous evergreen leaves.
In autumn, after the season's growth is finished, each twig ends in a single bud, with a whorl of five buds around it.
The starry magnolia blooms in March or April, covering itself with star-shaped white flowers made of strap-like petals that form a flat whorl instead of a cup.
The umbrella tree has an umbrella-like whorl of leaves surrounding the flower whose white cup stands above three recurving white sepals.
The foliage is almost fern-like in delicacy and it spreads in a whorl below the flower clusters in spring and the scarlet berry clusters in autumn.
The last whorl is swelling, and the aperture very wide.
I have already noticed the varices of the preceding genera; in Triton they never form longitudinal ranges, but are alternate, few, and nearly solitary on each whorl of the spire; these varices are generally smooth and without spines.
Thus, in figure 80 the rocks exposed in the park occupy only about the left-hand third of the topwhorl of the spiral.
It is a pale brownish or yellowish shell, usually without nodules; and on the edge of eachwhorl nearest to the spire is a groove, as shown in the plate.
The long spines would interfere with the growth of this Murex if it had not the power of dissolving them as the outside of one whorl becomes the inside of the next.
So the children came home with the whorl and scalp attached, and the father was satisfied.
Then she went out on the house top and shook out the whorl for all the people to see.
The girls all ran into a room and on down into a lower room, and the Huckovi girl followed them and caught the chief's daughter and cut off a whorl of her hair and also cut her throat.
They sat, as it were, transfigured, in a nebulous whorl or glory of yellow light.
It seems to me that all parts alternate beautifully by fours, on the hypothesis that two short stamens of outer whorl are aborted (615/1.
The inner whorl of anther ducts are oftenest aborted.
The carriage contains a series of steel spindles, marked 3, 3, which receive rapid rotation from a long tin drum F, by means of a series of cords passing round the pulley or whorl of each spindle.
To each of them a small wooden or cast-iron whorl g^{2} is made fast.
To the bobbin another two-grooved pulley or whorl q is made fast by means of a pin r, which passes through it; by removing this pin, the bobbin can be instantly taken off the spindle.
The vertical guide pulley at bottom n, served to lead the driving band descending from the top of the frame round the horizontal whorl or pulley upon the under end of the lantern.
Impression of Leaf Whorl of Equisetites from the Mesozoic Rocks, showing the narrow toothed form of the leaves.
Ionic and Corinthian capitals: a kind of spiral shell, chiefly tropical: whorl of a spiral shell.
It is interesting to note that in each whorl the branches are equal to the number of leaves and are alternate to them.
As a rule each whorl has thirty or forty branches apiece.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "whorl" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
