| 单词 | stamen |
| 例句 | During recess, when she catches me examining a flower I’d never seen before up close, and I explain I’m counting the stamens, she starts calling me Virginia the Esteemed Scientist. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I was the stamen in the middle of a twirling flower. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In her hair was a stamen from a flower. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z Ms. Keen has spent a week teaching us the finer points of stamens and pistils, seedpods and flowers. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z I gently pull the stamen through the blossom and set the drop of nectar on my tongue. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Exotic crimson flowers and birds poked their pistils and stamens and bills every which way up and down her torso. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z She drew faces, places, and minute details of plants and animals—a stamen here, a paw there, the rotted out tooth of an aged goat. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z They couldn’t remember things the way everyone else could, or see the models that were in the air, you know, of chromosomes or stamens. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The lecture on pistils and stamens turns into a big Fla-ha. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Later that day, her students would tear those silky petals from their stems, counting stamens and pistils to learn botany. How a garden once lost to history is being brought back into bloom 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z One hybrid named Winter’s Fire, with red-pink semi-double blooms and yellow stamens, is now 10 feet tall but just four feet wide. Fall-blooming camellias bring down the curtain on the growing season 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z If Dorr is drawn to flowers, it’s to see the arrangement of stamens to the pistil, the shape of the calyx, and the overall size and placement of blooms. Perspective | Dead plants’ evolutionary secrets might save the planet, or at least take its pulse 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z Gold or silver was worked into morning glories and irises that have spiky studs poking out in place of stamens, and are fashioned into earrings and necklaces. Special Report: Designing for 'Alice in the Real World' 2010-03-04T13:01:00Z Some are single or semi-double with decorative stamens, others have a pompon of central petals, and others are fully double. Peony passion: A garden icon blooms anew in the age of social media 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z Both tree peonies and intersectionals tend to have enormous flowers that appear earlier than regular peonies, usually as single or semi-double forms with highly decorative central stamens. Peony passion: A garden icon blooms anew in the age of social media 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z “I take these plants apart and dissect them, and count each stamen,” he said. A Lifelike Version of Nature, but Not to Scale 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z Only up close is it clear that these perennials are all made of paper, stunningly lifelike down to each delicate pistil and stamen. A Designer Who Makes Impossibly Lifelike Flowers From Everyday Materials 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Three generations are gathered round in a tranquil circle, hunched over baskets and meticulously plucking stamens. Back to where you came from: how Vietnam drama Monsoon ignites the battle for belonging 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z The flowers are large but more delicate in their architecture, though the stamen is a confection of pollen-bearing needles. The sultry plant that will break your heart 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z Suddenly after an August or September rain, they appear--2-foot-tall stems crowned by whorls of crinkled flowers with spidery stamens that earn them their name. The South's Top Pass-Along Plants 2010-08-18T18:32:00Z These are inspired by the “mathematical design of the stamen,” a gallery note explains. Review | In the galleries: This art will really speak to you 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z Stems remain with corollas of stamens around pods of undeveloped seeds, but the flowers, so enjoyed, are finished, and it all must be swept up and thrown away. Edith Shiffert, a Poet Inspired by Nature and Her Life in Japan, Dies at 101 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z Her ivory neck and face rises like a stamen from her red satin dress, perhaps evoking the Florentine fleur-de-lis. Bronzino's Medici portraits ? review 2010-10-22T23:07:00Z Fondest memento or memory: Our class was united in our love of flowers, and we spent each day out in the field examining their petals and stamens with magnifying glasses. What a Trip: In Yosemite, appreciating John Muir at 8,000 feet Prepare the flowers by removing the stamens and spiky green sepals. The 20 best Italian recipes: part 3 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z “We’re trying to make the environmental movement more fun and diverse – it has become very dry and boring,” Sprinkle, 62, tells me, pointing to a suggestively exuberant hibiscus stamen. ‘Nature is your lover, not your mother’: meet ecosexual pioneer Annie Sprinkle 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z Likewise the Flower patterns suggest outer petals and inner stamens of one single flower, then several buds on tall stems. ArtsBeat: Clues to the Original Nutcracker 2010-12-04T12:30:00Z The image on view here shows a profusion of white blossoms, each with six papery petals and six yellow stamens bursting from a central tubular stalk. Art Review: ‘Gardening by the Book’ Celebrates Rare Botanical Volumes 2013-06-13T21:26:09Z I left the stamens and pistil neatly bundled inside and inserted matchstick-like pieces of sharp cheddar. Perspective | This popular perennial flower can be turned into a tasty summer snack 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z It is easy to see their appeal; the blossoms each consist of a simple, creamy collar of silken petals around a yellow stamen. Perspective | Yoshinos aren’t the only cherry out there. It’s worth knowing, and growing, these others. 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z Five stalk-like stamens with pink-tipped anthers extend from the flower’s green center. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Most flowers carry both stamens and carpels; however, a few species self-pollinate. Concepts of Biology 2013-04-25T00:00:00Z The hairy flower has a clear, glossy bottom and a yellow-orange tube that contains its stamens. Scientists rediscover elusive ‘fairy lantern’ plant in Japan 2023-03-04T05:00:00Z Positively charged hummingbirds pull negatively charged plant stamens toward their beaks. There’s Lightning Brewing in Every Swarm of Insects 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z The stamens are the male parts of the flower. Miller & Levine Biology 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z The androecium is composed of stamens which cluster around the carpel. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Although they vary greatly in appearance, all flowers contain the same structures: sepals, petals, pistils, and stamens. Concepts of Biology 2013-04-25T00:00:00Z Instead, the rodents brush against the scores of scarlet stamens, which carry the pollen that could then cling to the their fur coats until being transferred to another feijoa tree. Remember Pizza Rat? Meet Pollinator Rat. 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z Making it out to the beach, she guided the teenagers to some chocolate lilies — their bright-green pistils and mustard-yellow stamens peeking out from the rich brown petals — and urged the kids to take a whiff. This tree has stood here for 500 years. Will it be sold for $17,500? Each stamen consists of a stalk called a filament with an anther at its tip. Miller & Levine Biology 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z The stamen consists a long, stalk-like filament with an anther at the end. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The stamens produce the male gametes, which are pollen grains. Concepts of Biology 2013-04-25T00:00:00Z But they also differ from plants in significant ways — notably fungi reproduce via spores rather than with flowers and seeds and lack basic structures that plants have, including stamens and pistils. Flora, fauna, and … funga? The case for a third "F" 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Commonly known as moth mullein for its antenna-like stamens, this species was introduced to North America in the 1800s and lives an unassuming life in fields and meadows. One of the world’s longest-running experiments sends up sprouts 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z What is the primary difference between a stamen and a carpel? Miller & Levine Biology 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z The androecium has stamens with anthers that contain the microsporangia. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The main parts of a flower are the sepals and petals, which protect the reproductive parts: the stamens and the carpels. Concepts of Biology 2013-04-25T00:00:00Z The yellow-tinged solar panels on the top were sunny stamens pushing up through white petals. Seeing 2020: A vision of Seattle’s future from 1984 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z Bees swarmed to their stamen, eager for pollen. Want to honor Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg? Show up to vote Nov. 3 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z Along with beauty, roses offer a great deal of utility around the landscape, including erosion control, salt endurance and appeal to pollinators - especially varieties whose blooms open fully to expose their stamens. New shrub rose hybrids are easy to care for, easy to love 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z Although they vary greatly in appearance, all flowers contain the same structures: sepals, petals, carpels, and stamens. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Over the course of the flower’s life, the individual stamens swing one by one into the center of the flower, where they stand tall and offer fresh pollen to insect visitors. Watch a Flower That Seems to Remember When Pollinators Will Come Calling 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z The white flowers with yellow stamens bloom in June and are about 1½ inches wide. Right up there with Ciscoe’s top trees: the Stewartia 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z Their deep-golden centers are tangled with white-tipped stamens, a flower within a flower, and their enormous, unopened buds are as delicately furled as any miniature rose. Opinion | The Call of the American Lotus 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z The real flowers, with their tiny green petals, stigmas and stamens, are best appreciated with a magnifying lens. Blaze of Glory 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z The androecium is composed of stamens which cluster around the carpel. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Those that had been visited every 15 minutes planned for that timeline, swinging in new stamens faster and more often. Watch a Flower That Seems to Remember When Pollinators Will Come Calling 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z The stamens in the center of the white blossoms are a gorgeous shade of scarlet. Right up there with Ciscoe’s top trees: the Stewartia 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z Though both genders’ flowers are fuzzy when they emerge, the males’ remain that way until their long stamens produce beautiful, bright yellow anthers. Spring Arrives on Kitten’s Paws 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z I’m also eyeing ‘Scarlet Heaven’, featuring huge, dark-red, single flowers centered with golden-yellow stamens. Good thing Itoh peonies are growing more affordable, because you’re going to want them all 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z The stamen consists a long, stalk-like filament with an anther at the end. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The second group was more lackadaisical, and its fresh stamen concentration peaked at the 45-minute mark. Watch a Flower That Seems to Remember When Pollinators Will Come Calling 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z They will last longer, often up to two weeks, if you wait to cut them until the stamens fall off. New cultivars of Lenten roses are more colorful, affordable and spectacular than ever 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z Given an open, sunny location, its bright-red flowers, centered with golden stamens, often open right on Christmas. Keep your hummingbirds happy with winter bloomers with nectar-rich flowers 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z The study also reveals that the ancestral flower’s stamens, petals and sepals – protective petal-like parts – were arranged not in spirals but concentric circles called whorls, with three petals or sepals in each. Mother of all blooms: is this what the last common ancestor of flowers looked like? 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z The stamens are made up of anthers, in which pollen grains are produced, and a supportive strand called the filament. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z While other plants may curl their leaves or catapult their seeds, many species of Loasoideae move their stamens: long, skinny filaments that are capped with pollen. Watch a Flower That Seems to Remember When Pollinators Will Come Calling 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z The rest is up to you, pistils and stamens. Review: Blondie’s ‘Pollinator’ buzzes with fun hooks, guests 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z The Orchidaceae are a family of perennial plants with one fertile stamen and three-petalled flowers that, depending on the species, can be anything from pale specks to voluptuous masses. Orchid Fever 1995-01-15T05:00:00Z The word shares a Latin root with “stamen,” the long, pollen-bearing organ that protrudes from a flower. What’s Really Behind Trump’s Obsession With Clinton’s ‘Stamina’? 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z These are found in the anther, which is at the end of the stamen—the long filament that supports the anther. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z When a bee rummages around for nectar in the flower’s center, it triggers the next stamen to come sweeping in, ready for a new bee, or the previous bee’s return. Watch a Flower That Seems to Remember When Pollinators Will Come Calling 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z “Stamina” is etymologically the plural form of “stamen,” the pollen-producing part of a flower, and its male analogue, equivalent to “balls.” Here’s How We Need to Watch the Next 2 Debates 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z A close examination of honeysuckle flowers reveals long stamens, each tipped with a powdery, pollen-covered anther. Why the Sweet Scent of Japanese Honeysuckle Signals Trouble 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z When they reproduce, the stamens release the anthers that contain the pollen to float up to the water’s surface. Ancient Aquatic Flora Was Among the First Flowering Plants 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z All over the world, the heavy heads of opium poppies are nodding gracefully in the wind — long stalks dressed in orange or white petals topped by a fright wig of stamens. A Way to Brew Morphine Raises Concerns Over Regulation 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z These plants can gymnastically wave around their stamens — the organs they use for fertilization — to maximize the distribution of their pollen. Watch a Flower That Seems to Remember When Pollinators Will Come Calling 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z The center of the tourbillion extends up 1 mm imitating the stamen of the flower. SIHH 2015 Part 4: Richard Mille, Roger Dubuis, Vacheron Constantin, Van Cleef & Arpels 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z As Malinda, my two nieces and I walked through the Tucquan Glen last weekend, broad white rhododendron blooms with pink stamens brushed our shoulders. A Pipeline Threatens Our Family Land 2014-07-12T04:00:00Z The anther is the part of the stamen where pollen is produced. Agave that will bloom only once begins to do so 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z Rather than grow petals or stamens, infected plants will produce green, leaflike structures. Observatory: Zombies in the Garden, Killing Themselves Slowly 2014-04-14T20:43:59Z Loasoideae stamens start out splayed, bunched up in groups and tucked within the flower’s petals. Watch a Flower That Seems to Remember When Pollinators Will Come Calling 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z Their main role is to cross-pollinate crops by taking the stamen of the male plant and rubbing it onto the female plant. India's child cotton pickers at risk 2014-02-23T20:05:15Z The plant grows delicate white flowers with yellow stamens and lily pads as small as one-third of an inch across. | Europe: Britain: Rare Waterlily Is Stolen 2014-01-14T02:07:07Z The stamens proactively bend in toward the bee, dusting its fuzzy coat with pollen. City Room: A Bee’s Prickly Dream 2013-07-05T23:30:20Z As the flowers burst open, the petals quickly separate and flip back, exposing the stamens. Olympians of the botanical world 2012-07-31T23:13:09Z It takes less than three minutes for a Loasoideae stamen to travel from the outside in — nimble by plant standards. Watch a Flower That Seems to Remember When Pollinators Will Come Calling 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z The stamens are very numerous, and are spirally arranged; and the carpels are variable in number, sessile or stipitate and slightly united at the base and dehisce by ventral suture. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z To preserve the colour of flowers pledgets of cotton wool, which prevent bruising, should be introduced between them, as also, if the stamens are thick and succulent, as in Digitalis, between these and the corolla. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z The cactus’s flower is shaped like an open bowl, with dozens of pollen-tipped stamens. City Room: A Bee’s Prickly Dream 2013-07-05T23:30:20Z Ovary inferior; stamens borne upon the corolla, alternate with its lobes. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile; as, an abortive organ, stamen, ovule, etc. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z Barren flower, a flower which has only stamens without a pistil, or which as neither stamens nor pistils. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z Both showed plentiful yellow stamens in the centres, and had exquisite rich dark leaves. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z In the simplest instances the pollen of one flower fertilizes the ovules of another on the same plant, owing to the stamens arriving at maturity in any one flower earlier or later than the pistils. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z Sepals and petals imbricated, the stamens alternate with the petals. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Produced by the conversion of the stamens into petals, as double flowers, like the garden ranunculus. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z Tensions often arise in the plant, and do work expressed as movements—e.g. the springing of elastic Balsam fruits, stamens of Parietaria, etc. Disease in Plants 2012-03-01T03:00:22Z Around this splendid crowned seed-vessel are rows of stamens and purple anthers of richest hue. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z T. aquilegifolium, 2 ft., purplish from the conspicuous stamens, the leaves glaucous, is a good border plant; and T. minus has foliage somewhat resembling that of the Maidenhair fern. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z Ovary superior; stamens as many as the corolla-lobes and opposite them. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z A support or column on which stamens are raised. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z One by one the stamens and also the stigma have been devoured for food, until the mere vestiges of them now remain. Eye Spy Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things 2012-02-24T03:00:23.760Z The stamens of the flower—waxlike with red tips—make mock illuminating matches. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z A plant easily known by its trusses of yellow-coloured and clammy blossoms with long protruding stamens. Our Flowering Shrubs and how to know them 2012-02-18T03:00:16.030Z Anomalous Cruciferæ, 61 Sepals and petals 5; stamens 5 or 10. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Having the filaments of the stamens divided into two parts. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z Pistils and stamens in flowers are modified petals, or rather petals are modified stamens, the "doubling" of flowers representing the being thus accomplished, while the petals again are mere changed leaves. Eye Spy Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things 2012-02-24T03:00:23.760Z These learned men believe that all flowers were at first yellow, being perhaps only developed stamens; then some became white, others red; while the purple and blue were the latest and highest forms. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z The name Pentstemon is from two Greek words, signifying five and stamen. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Ovary partly inferior, the calyx coherent to its lower half, 2-celled; styles 2; stamens many. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z A terminal combining form: Having a stamen or stamens; staminate; as, monandrous, with one stamen; polyandrous, with many stamens. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z In the water-lily you will find it difficult to determine just where the stamen ends and the petals begin, so gradual is the blending. Eye Spy Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things 2012-02-24T03:00:23.760Z Male calyx is trifid, the corolla three-petalled, with five stamens; the female calyx is quinquefid, the corolla divided into three segments, and furnished with three stamens. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:13.500Z Bractlets, sepals, petals, and stamens six, standing in front of one another. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Column of stamens long, bearing anthers for much of its length. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Having the number of floral organs unequal, as four petals and six stamens. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z Take this little collection, which I have here presented, of stamens and petals selected at random from common blossoms. Eye Spy Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things 2012-02-24T03:00:23.760Z The flowers are white with green stamens, and emit a pleasing fragrance; while the berries, round, black, and small, partake of the flavour of all the different spices, from whence their name, allspice. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:13.500Z The false lupine very closely resembles the true lupines, but may be distinguished from them by the stamens, which are all distinct, instead of being united into a sheath. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Calyx with a very short and roundish tube; its lobes equalling the 5 oblong sessile acute petals, longer than the stamens. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Having unequal stamens; having stamens different in number from the petals. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z With no stamens to bequeath pollen, and no stigma to welcome other pollen, what need to open? Eye Spy Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things 2012-02-24T03:00:23.760Z The leaves are ovate, and of a dusky green; the flowers consist of five segments, produced in a circular form, with numerous stamens surrounding an ovary of an oblong form. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:13.500Z They are especially characterized by the structure of the stamens, which rise out of a tiny cup. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Petals small, short-clawed, notched at the end, wrapped around the short stamens, or sometimes none. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Congenitally united with an organ of another kind, as calyx with ovary, or stamens with petals. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z This is the spadix bearing the naked flowers, which are perfect, consisting of a four-angled style and four awl-shaped stamens. New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers 2012-02-05T03:00:10Z The flowers are green, and consist of six segments, the male flowers having six stamens, and the female three styles. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:13.500Z The numerous stamens give these blossoms a feathery appearance, and the leaves often group themselves characteristically in four ranks upon the stems. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Calyx tube short; its lobes, petals, and the stamens 3–5. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z That part of the stamen containing the pollen, or fertilizing dust, which, when mature, is emitted for the impregnation of the ovary. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z The flowers are unisexual, and strikingly epigynous, the perianth and stamens being attached to a bell-shaped prolongation of the receptacle above the ovary. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z The pistil of the flower is rather long, and is surrounded by six stamens. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:13.500Z The central stamen in each group has a two-celled anther, while its neighbor on either hand has but a one-celled anther. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Petals free from the diadelphous stamens; standard ovate or roundish, its claw often remote from the others; wings obovate or oblong; keel incurved. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Spring beauties open warily at daybreak to show stamens of deep rose. Minstrel Weather 2012-01-24T03:00:25.640Z There are five stamens in the male flowers; the anthers open towards the outside, are one-celled, with the pollen-sacs generally curved and variously united. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z The male blossoms have five petals and fifteen stamens; the females have no petals but a large oblong ovary bearing three bifid styles. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z Sepals, petals, and stamens numerous in many series, their cohering bases coating the one-celled ovary and forming a cup above it. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Petals 5, lanceolate, much longer than the calyx, and longer than the 5 stamens. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z She clasps the book of her Rule in one hand, and in the other holds a lily with small diamonds shining on the stamens. The Story of Assisi 2012-01-14T03:00:18.710Z The members of this genus are shrubs or small trees having alternate, exstipulate leaves, and flowers with three small sepals, six petals arranged in a double row and numerous stamens. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z The four inner stamens are longer than the two outer; and the stamens are hence collectively described as tetradynamous. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z Petals.—Twelve to eighteen; small; about equaling the stamens, and resembling them. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z It differs in several respects from the character of the order given above; the stamens being 15, the styles united into one, and the seeds all at the base of the pod. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Fertile stamen, enveloping the style which projects above it. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z The stamens are shorter than the cup, the anthers oblong and converging; the ovary is globose, and has three furrows; the seeds are roundish and black. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z The petals are generally white or yellow, more rarely lilac or some other colour, and between the bases of the stamens are honey-glands. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z It also has three stamens and three staminodia; but the latter are deeply cleft and exceed the anthers. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Herbs or woody plants, climbing by tendrils, with perfect flowers, 5 monadelphous stamens, and a stalked 1-celled ovary free from the calyx, with 3 or 4 parietal placentæ, and as many club-shaped styles. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z L. Alluding to the golden stamens of the rose. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z By keeping the lower part spread open with the needles, you will see that a number of delicate yellow threads grow from the sides of the corolla and are connected with the yellow stamen rod. Through a Microscope Something of the Science Together with many Curious Observations Indoor and Out and Directions for a Home-made Microscope. 2011-12-29T03:00:20.733Z Zamia, except that the ends of the stamens are flat, while the apices of the carpels are peltate. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z It resembles the above in foliage, color of blossoms, and the long stamens; but the form of the flowers is that of the Nemophila. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Corolla bell-shaped, regularly 4–5-lobed, with as many short stamens inserted into its throat. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The yellow stamens are compared to his teeth. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z These threads are another part of the stamens. Through a Microscope Something of the Science Together with many Curious Observations Indoor and Out and Directions for a Home-made Microscope. 2011-12-29T03:00:20.733Z The axis of the flower is a shoot bearing leaves in the form of stamens. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z Upper lip lilac or white; lower of three lobes; the middle folded into a keeled sac containing the stamens and style; the two lateral rose-purple. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Shrubs; stamens on the base of the petals. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z A is a petal, B is a stamen, C is a side view of the flower, showing three petals and a stem, D is a leaf, and E a bud and stem. Text Books of Art Education, Book IV (of 7) 2011-11-29T03:00:14.593Z Around the pistil come the stamens in each case. Through a Microscope Something of the Science Together with many Curious Observations Indoor and Out and Directions for a Home-made Microscope. 2011-12-29T03:00:20.733Z Similarly in the sporophylls of some cycads the bundles are endarch near the base and mesarch near the distal end of the stamen or carpel. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z Its stems are taller and more slender; its flower-heads are less than an inch across, and composed of very small light-blue flowers, with feathery, exserted stamens. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Ovary and pod 1-celled, With a free central placenta; stamens 2. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The bees dipped deep into the sweet honey-cups, carrying the pollen from the stamens of one flower to the fluffy pistil-heads of others. The Sun's Babies 2011-11-21T03:00:12.963Z And inside this rough calyx the fair white column of her neck rose out of its surrounding frillery like the stamen of a flower from its nest of petals. Maid of the Mist 2011-11-21T03:00:11.937Z A, Male flower; B, C, single stamens; D, female flower. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z The generic name comes from two Greek words, signifying hair and stamen, and was bestowed on account of the capillary filaments. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Spurs nearly straight; stamens and styles longer than the ovate sepals.—Rocks, common. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Outside the stamens he made a row of petals, small and closely folded now, but soon to grow big and wide. The Sun's Babies 2011-11-21T03:00:12.963Z Varieties differ in protrusion of pistil beyond the stamen column. The Tomato 2011-11-20T03:00:13.470Z An interesting case has been figured by Masters, in which scales of a cone of Cupressus Lawsoniana bear ovules on the upper surface and stamens on the lower face. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z The common name also refers to the long, curling blue stamens. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Petals, or rather transformed stamens, 1–8, small, on claws, 2-horned at the apex. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z They were very beautiful; four red velvety petals spread widely out on each side; in the middle there were six pale yellow stamens and a fluffy double pistil-head. The Sun's Babies 2011-11-21T03:00:12.963Z The ovary or little tomato is above the calyx but, as it grows, it carries corolla and stamens outward until they, with stigma and style, drop off. The Tomato 2011-11-20T03:00:13.470Z The spikelets are sometimes unisexual, and there are often six stamens. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z Calyx.—Half an inch long; garnet; the five oblong lobes somewhat longer than the tube, but hardly longer than the stamens, which surpass the five white petals with inrolled edges. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Sepals, petals, and stamens 6, alternating in threes, the two latter short. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Round the pistil he put the orange-coloured stamens with their long narrow sacks on their heads, ready to be filled with pollen. The Sun's Babies 2011-11-21T03:00:12.963Z Male flowers are bell-shaped, in long-stalked drooping heads; calyx five to seven cleft, containing numerous stamens. The Nut Culturist A Treatise on Propogation, Planting, and Cultivation of Nut Bearing Trees and Shrubs Adapted to the Climate of the United States 2011-11-12T03:00:31.793Z Linnæus constructed a system of botanical classification, upon the basis of the number of stamens in a flower. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z Sepals, petals, and stamens indefinite, passing into each other; all coalescent below into the cuplike calyx-tube, on whose inner surface are borne the numerous carpels. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Petals and stamens usually 8; anthers opening by uplifted valves. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z In spring the clustered fringes among the opening leaves are the green and gold stamen flowers. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z The white or rosy petals form a cup which surrounds the numerous stamens and the five styles. Forest Trees of Illinois How to Know Them 2011-10-08T02:00:23.997Z No creature without a long proboscis or bill could penetrate the chevaux-de-frise of stamens, and to reach the honey the hummingbirds had to probe to their eyes. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z It varies greatly in the size and hairiness of its leaves, in the form of its flowers, which are broadly or narrowly funnel-form, and in the exsertion of the stamens and style. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Shrubs with watery juice, usually climbing by tendrils, with small regular flowers, a minute or truncated calyx, its limb mostly obsolete, and the stamens as many as the valvate petals and opposite them! The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The protecting hairs and pigments disappear, and the green leafage takes its place, brightened by the yellow tassels of the stamen flowers, and the growing season is on. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z The flowers are rather small, arranged in flat-topped clusters, white in color, with about a dozen pink stamens. Forest Trees of Illinois How to Know Them 2011-10-08T02:00:23.997Z Many flowers were unrecognizable save by their fragrance and naked stamens, advertised neither by color nor form of blossom. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z These flowers with four hairy sepals and four stamens with distinct filaments. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Corolla spreading, white spotted with purple and yellow, of 5 petals; stamens declined; leaflets 7.—Commonly planted. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Each flower of the pyramid has its throat-dashes of yellow and red, and the curving yellow stamens are thrust far out of the dainty ruffled border of the corolla. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z They have about 20 cream-colored, densely hairy stamens. Forest Trees of Illinois How to Know Them 2011-10-08T02:00:23.997Z Her skin was as purely pale as the petals of her guardian flowers, and the yellow gold of their stamens was the colour of her hair. The Fairies and the Christmas Child 2011-09-29T02:00:12.583Z Exserted, projecting beyond an envelop; as stamens from a corolla. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Plants with opposite 3–7-ribbed leaves, and definite stamens, the anthers opening by pores at the apex; otherwise much as in the Onagraceæ.—All tropical, except the genus 1. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Each flower of each cluster has a calyx with scalloped edges, and a fringe of four to nine stamens hanging far out and surrounding the central solitary ovary. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z The petals vary from 3 to 5, the stamens are 3 to 10 and the ovary is wooly and one-celled. Forest Trees of Illinois How to Know Them 2011-10-08T02:00:23.997Z There are other characters which support those already pointed out, such as the absence of the glandules, and the declination of the stamens; but the features already described offer the most ready and obvious distinctions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" 2011-09-26T02:00:25.313Z Monœcious, with stamens and pistils in separate blossoms on the same plant. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Petals 4, convolute in the bud, oblique, inserted along with the 8 stamens on the summit of the calyx-tube. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Speedily, the stamens shrivel and pale green pendants, which are the seeds, cluster upon the twigs. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z They are small yellow-green in color with 5 petals and 10 stamens. Forest Trees of Illinois How to Know Them 2011-10-08T02:00:23.997Z By this arrangement self-pollination is prevented and cross-pollination ensured by the visits of bees which come for the honey secreted by the glands at the base of the inner stamens. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" 2011-09-26T02:00:25.313Z Pistillate, having a pistil or pistils, and no stamens. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Apparently the more developed form of the southern A. latifolium, L., which, as limited by Koehne, has apetalous flowers, with included stamens and short style. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The bud of the tulip tree is smaller, but it holds a single blossom, and petals, stamens, and pistil are easily recognizable. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z The staminate flowers of the black willow have 3 to 5 stamens each, while the white willow has flowers with 2 stamens. Forest Trees of Illinois How to Know Them 2011-10-08T02:00:23.997Z The leaves are for the most part palmately-lobed, and the flowers are regular, consisting of five sepals, five imbricating petals, alternating with five glandules at their base, ten stamens and a beaked ovary. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" 2011-09-26T02:00:25.313Z The stamen consists of two parts—the filament and the anther. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Flowers large, purple, in a long raceme; calyx-limb deeply parted; petals entire; stamens and style successively deflexed; stigma of 4 long lobes. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Ten stamens stand about the free central pistil, and the anther of each is hid in a pocket of the corolla—the slender filament bent backward. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z Their flowers have only 2 stamens each and their leaves are silky, bright green above and glaucous beneath. Forest Trees of Illinois How to Know Them 2011-10-08T02:00:23.997Z I managed to stammer forth gallant phrases in broken French, and explained to the little charmer the Linn�an system, in which flowers are classified according to their stamens. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z The filament is the stalk of the stamen. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Flowers in the axils of chaffy scales or glumes arranged in spikes or spikelets, without evident perianth; stamens 1–3; ovary 1-celled, 1-seeded; seed albuminous. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z But when the sun shines, they open out, and lie well back from the stamens so that insects may be lured to take the pollen from one flower to another. Beautiful Bulbous Plants For the Open Air 2011-09-10T02:00:24.197Z Here and there this cushion was studded with white stars edged with a line of gold, and from the heart of each grew a bunch of purple stamens without a pistil. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z The flowers have a persistent 4- to 5-lobed calyx and a 4- to 5-lobed tubular corolla; the stamens are equal in number to the lobes of the corolla. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 2011-09-02T02:00:20.450Z It was bestowed upon this genus because the fifth stamen is present, though sterile. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Receptacle somewhat produced between the petals and stamens, and bearing a gland behind the stipitate ovary. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z They should therefore be picked either early in the morning or late in the evening, when the petals are closed in over the stamens and ovary in the centre. Beautiful Bulbous Plants For the Open Air 2011-09-10T02:00:24.197Z The stamens of the flowers are caught in little pockets, and as the insect alights on these they are loosened and fly upward, shaking the pollen on to the body of the insect. Woodcraft or, How a Patrol Leader Made Good 2011-08-24T02:00:22.913Z These eggs hatch into minute slug-like larvae which feed upon the buds, commonly burrowing through the calyx lobes and devouring the undeveloped stamens and pistils inside. Butterflies Worth Knowing 2011-08-10T02:00:15.887Z The tips of the calyx-lobes are usually red, and the wee stamens are pink. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Annual or nearly so; lower leaves on hairy petioles, petals shorter than the calyx, 2-parted, stamens 3–10.—Everywhere in damp grounds. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z "Yes, I believe that's what they call it here, and he doesn't know the petals of a flower from the stamens," muttered Devarges. Gabriel Conroy 2011-06-08T02:00:19.217Z Corolla cut open showing the four stamens; rather more than half nat. size. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z In regard to the Eleventh Dog-post-day I remark, to be sure, that Nature has created plants with all variety of numbers of stamens, only none with eleven, and seldom also men with eleven fingers. Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography 2011-05-11T02:00:19.453Z The anemone is always a solitary flower with many stamens, and its petals are of a more delicate texture. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Root perennial; leaves all sessile; petals longer than the calyx, deeply 2-cleft; stamens 10.—Shaded rocks, Penn. to Ind., and southward. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Double-flowering, the development, often by cultivation, of the stamens and pistils of flowers into petals, by which the beauty of the flower is enhanced and its reproductive powers sacrificed. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z The writer is inclined to believe that these nuclei are correlative to those species having free stamens. The Philippine Agricultural Review Vol. VIII, First Quarter, 1915 No. 1 2011-04-13T02:00:12.527Z In this dust the tassels were dipped continually—powdered over with it, finer than the yellow pollen you may have seen on the stamens of a lily. Violet: A Fairy Story 2011-04-07T02:00:17.290Z Petals.—Five; inserted with ten of the stamens on the calyx; broadly spatulate. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Hairy; leaves 3–5-cleft and incised; stamens 15–20; fruit hispid at the top.—Low grounds, Va. and southward. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z In Capparidaceae the calyx and petals occupy their usual position, but the axis is prolonged in the form of a gynophore, to which the stamens are united. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z The nearly always free stamens in a plant belonging to the same general group as the lemon is of interest. The Philippine Agricultural Review Vol. VIII, First Quarter, 1915 No. 1 2011-04-13T02:00:12.527Z A, branch bearing male cones, reduced; B, single male cone, enlarged; C, single stamen, enlarged. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z Staminate Flowers.—Five to twenty in racemes; their stamens two and a half, with short connate filaments and somewhat horizontal anthers. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Sepals, minute pistils, and lobes of the ovary 3, stamens 6. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z One of the stamens has been deprived of its spur, the other shows its spur c. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z This variety is less vigorous than the colo-colo and also differs from the plant in having narrower wing margins and 21 to 28 stamens and 9 to 11 locules. The Philippine Agricultural Review Vol. VIII, First Quarter, 1915 No. 1 2011-04-13T02:00:12.527Z The flowers are regular and symmetrical, having five sepals, tapering to a point and hairy on the margin, five petals which speedily fall, ten stamens, and a pistil bearing five distinct styles. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z Petals.—Five; minute; on the sinuses of the calyx; each clasping a stamen. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Sheath of the monadelphous stamens cleft on the upper side; 5 of the anthers smaller and roundish. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Sometimes the stamens in the early state of the flower project beyond the petals, and in the progress of growth become included, as in Geranium striatum. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z The principal difference in this variety from the colo-colo and lombog is in the number of stamens, here 36 to 41. The Philippine Agricultural Review Vol. VIII, First Quarter, 1915 No. 1 2011-04-13T02:00:12.527Z In the large tropical genus Croton a pentamerous calyx and corolla are generally present, the stamens are often very numerous, and the female flower has three carpels. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z Summit of the peduncle enlarging into a cup-shaped torus or disk, upon the upper inner surface of which are borne the calyx, corolla, and stamens. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Sheath of the monadelphous stamens entire; anthers alternately oblong and roundish. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z In some flowers, as Jatropha Curcas, in which the stamens are not developed, their place is occupied by glandular bodies forming the disk. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z What we've managed to document is that the whole flower is made - the sepals, petals, stamens and carpels - and at that stage there's no sign of the corona. Daffodil trumpets are 'new organ' 2011-02-28T20:20:59Z The most reduced type of flower is that described in Euphorbia, where the male consists of one stamen separated from its pedicel by a joint, and the female of a naked tricarpellary pistil. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z The bright-green, top-shaped ovary stands up in the midst of the slender stamens, whose yellow anthers show brilliantly against the dark maroon of the petals. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Keel of the corolla, with the included stamens and style, spirally coiled. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The pistil or gynoecium occupies the centre or apex of the flower, and is surrounded by the stamens and floral envelopes when these are present. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z The petals with the stamens are situated on the outer edge of a honey-secreting disk. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z As the stamens and pistil are borne by different flowers, cross-fertilization is necessary. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z Their enormous blossoms are crowned by the soft radiance of the long stamens, "like the lashes of light that trim the stars." The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Keel of the corolla with the included stamens and style elongated, strongly incurved, not spirally coiled. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The outermost series of the essential organs, collectively termed the androecium, is composed of the microsporophylls known as the staminal leaves or stamens. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z The flowers are small, hermaphrodite, numerous, in purplish-brown tufts, and each with a fringed basal bract; the bell-shaped calyx is often four-toothed and surrounds four free stamens; the pistil bears two spreading hairy styles. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z I found three stamens to each scale, with a style among the upper ones, which was divided half way down into three lobes. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 2010-12-31T03:00:11.350Z When the flowers first open, the stamens lie flat upon the petals; but they gradually rise up, forming a large tuft in the center of the flower. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Small marsh annuals, with opposite leaves, membranous stipules, minute axillary flowers, few stamens, and pod 2–5-celled. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The dots represent a whorl of stamens which has disappeared. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z The inflorescence is a very simple one, consisting of one or two male flowers each comprising a single stamen, and a female flower comprising a flask-shaped pistil. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z Some of the spikes consisted only of stamens. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 2010-12-31T03:00:11.350Z The stamens of these flowers are especially pretty and interesting if examined with a glass. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Calyx-lobes and petals indefinite, imbricated, the numerous stamens on the tube. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The calyx and corolla consist of five parts, the stamens are ten in two rows, while the pistil has only two parts developed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z The well-known flower consists of a five-lobed calyx, five white petals, and from fifteen to twenty stamens round the single carpel. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z The five stamens also proceed from the calyx. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 2010-12-31T03:00:11.350Z By a careful dissection, the stamen-column is found to be double, its outer part bearing five bunches of stamens. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Flowers perfect; inner perianth of three yellow petals; perfect stamens and plumose sterile filaments each 3; pod 1-celled, many-seeded on 3 parietal placentæ. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Thus, a symmetrical flower may have five sepals, five petals, five stamens and five carpels, or the number of any of these parts may be ten, twenty or some multiple of five. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z The flowers are produced near the ends of last year's shoots, those with stamens being borne singly or in clusters of two or three. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z The outer feelers, which look like the stamens of a flower, are sometimes snow-white, sometimes of a reddish flesh-colour, and crisped. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 2010-12-31T03:00:11.350Z Sepals, petals, and stamens four to nine; usually five. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Vegetables bearing proper flowers, that is, having stamens and pistils, and producing seeds, which contain an embryo. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z And finally, we find flowers consisting of a single stamen with a bract. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z Some contain both stamens and pistil, but others are either stamenate or pistillate. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z Pistils cohering in a cylindrical form, longer than the stamens, and about half as long as the petals. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 2010-12-31T03:00:11.350Z These diaphanous little flowers, with their long stamens resting on the lower side of the perianth, are like diminutive azaleas. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Raceme ovate; petals rhombic-spatulate, much shorter than the stamens; pedicels slender; berries cherry-red, or sometimes white, oval.—Rich woods, common, especially northward. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z There is thus traced a degradation, as it is called, from a flower with three stamens and three divisions of the calyx, to one with a single bract and a single stamen. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z The male flowers are about three-quarters of an inch long, and consist of two or three series of overlapping scales, enclosing the yellow stamens. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z Pistils two, in the same flower with the stamens, reflexed. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 2010-12-31T03:00:11.350Z Its scarlet stamens, purple-pink petals, and often deeper purple sepals make an odd combination of color. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Sepals and petals numerous in several rows, passing gradually into each other, and with the indefinitely numerous stamens hypogynous and deciduous. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z In unisexual flowers it is not uncommon to find vestiges of the undeveloped stamens in the form of filiform bodies or scales. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z The catkins, which appear in March and April, are cylindrical; those of the male trees may be as much as four inches long, each flower containing from six to ten stamens with purple anthers. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z The same with stamens, but an abortive fruit. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 2010-12-31T03:00:11.350Z Staminodia.—Three; broad; short; white; on the throat of the perianth, alternating with the stamens. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Petals adnate to the ovary, large; the stamens on its summit. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z In double flowers transformations of the stamens and pistils take place, so that they appear as petals. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z The ovary, with its two awl-shaped styles, is surrounded by four or five stamens with purple anthers. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z The petals, stamens and pistils are all concealed within the calyx. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 2010-12-31T03:00:11.350Z But a careful counting of sepals, petals, and stamens will reveal their separate identity. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Floating leaves linear-oblong or -obovate, often with a basal notch; flowers 6–8´´ broad, white with yellow spots at base; stamens 6.—Ponds, The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z In Canna, what are called petals are in reality metamorphosed stamens. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z The stamens are normally five in each flower, but they vary up to twelve. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z Spergula marina with spatulate petals, ten stamens, and three very short pistils. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 2010-12-31T03:00:11.350Z The exceedingly long stamens and style give these blossoms an elegant, airy look. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Petals numerous, in many rows, the innermost gradually passing into stamens, imbricately inserted all over the ovary. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z In Scrophularia the fifth stamen appears as a scale-like body; in other Scrophulariaceae, as in Pentstemon, it assumes the form of a filament, with hairs at its apex in place of an anther. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z Separated from the catkin, the males will each be seen to consist of a calyx of five greenish scales, enclosing a large number of stamens. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z Now let us suppose that, in some variety of an inconspicuous flower, similar nectar was produced in the neighbourhood of the petals and stamens. Charles Darwin 2010-12-24T03:00:33.847Z Corolla.—Club-shaped, bent downward above the calyx and oblique to it; one inch long; the two upper lobes united and containing the stamens; the three lower mere teeth. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Leaves oblanceolate or nearly lanceolate; petals and stamens commonly 3; seeds more slender, covering the axis.—Ponds, The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Thus in Cucurbita the stamens are originally five in number, but subsequently some cohere, so that three stamens only are seen in the mature flower. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z Individually regarded, the flowers will be found to consist of five sepals, five petals, an oval ovary with a style ending in a five-toothed stigma, and surrounded by a large number of stamens. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z They are on stalks called stamens and they release the pollen. Sneeze be gone 2010-05-24T14:22:00Z The fifth stamen looks like a very cunning little golden hearth-brush. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Petals and stamens numerous, on a thick hypogynous receptacle or inserted upon the ovary. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Adhesion is well seen in the gynostemium of orchids, where the stamens and stigmas adhere. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z There are no petals, but attached to the sides of the calyx there are ten stamens. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z They are naked, that is without sepals or petals, and generally imperfect, wanting either stamens or pistil. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" Fertile, capable of producing fruit; as a pistillate flower; applied also to a pollen-bearing stamen. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Petals none, or in n. 1 resembling abortive stamens. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Thus in the horse-chestnut there is an interposition of two stamens, and thus seven stamens are formed in the flower, which is asymmetrical. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z The male flowers offer another distinguishing mark in their stamens being three in number. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z The details of the structure of the flower show a wide variation; the flowers are often extremely simple, sometimes as in Arum, reduced to a single stamen or pistil. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" Inferior, said of the ovary when the calyx, corolla, or stamens are borne upon its summit or sides. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Carpels numerous in a head, with long hairy styles which in fruit form feathery tails, as in Clematis; flower large, usually with some minute or indistinct gland-like abortive stamens answering to petals. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Longitudinal section of flower; v, bracteole on the peduncle; l, sepals; ls, appendage of sepal; c, petals; cs, spur of the lower petals; fs, glandular appendage of the lower stamens; a, anthers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z The stigma matures in advance of the stamens, so that it has usually been fertilized by bee-borne pollen from another Sloe before its own anthers have disclosed their pollen. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z In the next three classes, the stamens exceed ten in number, but differ from each other in certain circumstances. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History Sterile, barren; incapable of producing seed; a sterile stamen is one not producing pollen. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z The typical imperfectly developed annual form, with only 4 stamens and rather strict pods, occurs very rarely. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Flowers become double by the multiplication of the parts of the corolline whorl; this arises in general from a metamorphosis of the stamens. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z The flowering of the Alder is very similar to that of the Birch, but the male catkins have red scales, and each flower four stamens. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z In the next class, the stamens are united by their anthers. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History Unisexual, of one sex; said of flowers having stamens only, or pistils only. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z R. Lùtea, L. Leaves irregularly pinnately parted or bipinnatifid; sepals and petals 6, stamens 15–20.—Nantucket, The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Other modifications of some part of the flower, especially of the corolla and stamens, are produced either by degeneration or outgrowth, or by chorisis, or deduplication. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z The males consist of four petals, enclosing a rudimentary ovary, from beneath which spring four stamens. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z Monœcia: Flowers bearing stamens only, and flowers bearing pistils only, occurring on the same plant; as in the oak. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History The flowers resemble the white poppy, having snowy petals and violet-coloured stamens; and the fruit, which is large and of an oblong shape, is said to taste like gingerbread, with a pleasant acid flavour. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis Petals when present without claws, mostly imbricated, and with the stamens inserted at the base of the sessile ovary, or into a little disk. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z In other cases, as in Samolus, the scales are alternate with the petals, and may represent altered stamens. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z In all the other Willows mentioned the stamens, whatever their number, all have the filaments distinct from each other. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z A botanist is arisen in the North, who has founded a new method on the stamens and pistils, whose name is Linnæus. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History Ericace�, or heaths, remarkable for the beauty and fragrance of their flowers, and distinguished from the rhododendrons chiefly by the flowers having five stamens instead of ten. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis Petals 5, rarely 6, inserted on the calyx with the 7–20 stamens, fugacious. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The stamens arise from the thalamus or torus within the petals, with which they generally alternate, forming one or more whorls, which collectively constitute the androecium. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z In this species alone the filaments of the two stamens are more or less united. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z Tetradynamia: six stamens, of which two are shorter; as in cabbage and wallflower. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History The corolla is bell- or funnel-shaped; stamens are numerous; the fruit is a dry unjointed pod. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide G. mólle, L. Like the last; more pubescent; flowers dark purple; stamens 10; carpels transversely wrinkled, seed slightly striate.—Occasionally spontaneous. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z As the seed develops from the ovule which has been fertilized by the pollen, the essential structures for seed-production are two, viz. the pollen-bearer or stamen and the ovule-bearer or carpel. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z The pistil is a greenish yellow pear-shaped body, and the stamens are very dark purple. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z Monadelphia: stamens united by their filaments into a single body or set; as in mallows. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History The female bores and lays an egg in the unopened bud, and the maggot feeds on the stamens and pistil. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" Several species produce small peculiar flowers, precociously fertilized in the bud and particularly fruitful; and the ordinary flowers are often dimorphous or even trimorphous in the relative length of the stamens and styles. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z When the stamens are not equal in number to the sepals or petals, the flower is anisostemonous. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z They are about a quarter of an inch across, have narrow sepals and narrower petals, eight stamens, and a two-lobed flattened ovary, that develops into the pair of broad-winged "keys," or samaras. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z Polyadelphia: stamens united into three or more bundles; as in hypericum and cistus. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History The higher group have flowers, with their stamens and pistils, which produce seeds, while the lower group are without flowers and bear spores, which are much simpler bodies than seeds. The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer There are numberless varieties, some of them with 10 stamens. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The function of the stamen is the development and distribution of the pollen. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z They are of cylindric form, crimson in colour, and each stamen bears from two to six anther-cells. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z Polygamia: Flowers bearing stamens and pistils, flowers bearing stamens only, and flowers bearing pistils only, all on the same individual, or on different individuals of the same species; as in the ash and pellitory. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History Parts of same, two of each kind, separated and displayed; the torus or receptacle in the centre; a, a sepal; b, a petal; c, a stamen; d, a pistil. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools Distinguished from the Ericaceæ chiefly by the insertion of the stamens upon the corolla. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z In some cases, as in papilionaceous flowers, the stamens cohere, having been originally separate, but in most cases each bundle is produced by the branching of a single stamen. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z Single male flower separated, with a perianth in 2 segments and a single stamen. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" In Gynandria, the orders are determined by the number of the stamens. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History Linn�us gave to this lower grade of plants the name of Cryptogamia, thereby indicating that their organs answering to stamens and pistils, if they had any, were recondite and unknown. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools Sterile stamens 5, petal-like, alternate with the lobes of the corolla. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z When there are three stamens in a bundle we may conceive the lateral ones as of a stipulary nature. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z They are well known in cultivation as greenhouse shrubs; the flower owes its beauty to the numerous long thread-like stamens which far exceed the small petals. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" Icosandria: twenty or more stamens, inserted upon the inner side of the calyx; as in the rose and apple. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History Anther, the essential part of the stamen, which contains the pollen, 14, 80, 101. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools Corolla hypogynous when the calyx is free; the stamens adherent to its base. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z In Lauraceae there are perfect stamens, each having at the base of the filament two abortive stamens or staminodes, which may be analogous to stipules. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z Nehemiah Grew seems to have been the first to describe, in a paper on the Anatomy of Plants, read before the Royal Society in November 1676, the functions of the stamens and pistils. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" Polyandria: twenty or more stamens, inserted upon the receptacle or point of union of all the parts of the flower; as in the crowfoot and anemone. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History Imperfect flowers, wanting either stamens or pistils, 85. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools Stamens 4, declined, with the anther-cells transverse and confluent into one; the fifth stamen a scale-like rudiment at the summit of the tube of the corolla. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Stamens occasionally become sterile by the degeneration or non-development of the anthers, when they are known as staminodia, or rudimentary stamens. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z The system of Linnaeus was founded on characters derived from the stamens and pistils, the so-called sexual organs of the flower, and hence it is often called the sexual system. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" The relative length of the stamens determines the next two classes. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History Tetradynamous, where a flower has six stamens, two shorter than the four, 101. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools Fertile stamens 2, and often 2 sterile filaments without anthers. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z In Scrophularia the fifth stamen appears in the form of a scale; and in many Pentstemons it is reduced to a filament with hairs or a shrivelled membrane at the apex. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z In the latter division of plants he could not detect stamens and pistils, and he did not investigate the mode in which their germs were produced. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" Syngenesia: five stamens united by the anthers; as in the dandelion and violet. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History Section of a flower moderately enlarged, showing a part of the petals and stamens, all five styles, and a section of ovary with two ovules or rudimentary seeds. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools Sepals and stamens 5, with a rudiment of an ovary. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z In other cases, as in double flowers, the stamens are converted into petals; this is also probably the case with such 568 plants as Mesembryanthemum, where there is a multiplication of petals in several rows. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z The elm should flower about the middle of March, and its pink stamens make a pleasant sight. Springtime and Other Essays In the twentieth, the pistil and stamen are united. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History Going back to the stamens, these are of two parts, viz. the stalk, called Filament, and the body it bears, the Anther. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools Sepals 3, oblong, more or less unequal; a rudiment of a stamen commonly before each in the form of a hooded scale. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z When the stamens are in two rows, those opposite the petals are usually shorter than those which alternate with the petals. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z The grasses p. 8have long pendent stamens, and versatile anthers, from which the pollen is easily shaken out by the wind. Springtime and Other Essays The plants of all the above classes have flowers furnished with both stamens and pistils; but in the next three the flowers are unisexual. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History The Carolina Allspice and the White Water-Lily exhibit complete gradations not only between sepals and petals, but between petals and stamens. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools Fl. summer and early autumn.—Varies, like the Mints, with the stamens exserted or included in different flowers. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z It sometimes happens that a single stamen is longer than all the rest. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z The young stamen is bent so that the upper end of the anther touches the base of the filament. Springtime and Other Essays But the stamens are in five sets, separated by five hairy nectaries. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History Pistils and stamens now and then change into each other in some Willows; pistils often turn into petals in cultivated flowers; and in the Double Cherry they are occasionally replaced by small green leaves. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools Glabrous alpine perennials, with thick creeping rootstocks and simple stems; flowers in a spike-like raceme; calyx colored, deeply 5-cleft; stamens 8; styles 3, long. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z A definite relation, as regards number, sometimes exists between the long and the short stamens. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z For example, he records that the stamens of the Madonna lily have a different smell from the flower itself, and that the berries of the bay tree are almost, but not quite, round. The Old English Herbals He maintained that the genera were not false, and the Oxonian referred to a plant in the garden, which he and other botanists considered as having three stamens. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History The two pieces under the hood represent the corolla, reduced to two odd-shaped petals; in centre the numerous stamens and three pistils. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools Sterile flowers numerous and lining the base of the involucre, each from the axil of a little bract, and consisting merely of a single stamen jointed on a pedicel like the filament; anther-cells globular, separate. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Thus, in some flowers the stamens are didynamous, having only four out of five stamens developed, and the two corresponding to the upper part of the flower longer than the two lateral ones. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z The five stamens alternate in position with the lobes of the corolla. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" Rosa Sinica, or Lævigata, mentioned above, also known as the "Cherokee Rose," is a single white with yellow stamens, from China. Roses and Rose Growing The stamens in both are out of symmetry with the ground-plan, being numerous. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools Flowers diœcious; the sterile in loose axillary panicles, with 5 sepals and 5 erect stamens. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The term clinandrium is sometimes applied to the part of the column in orchids where the stamens are situated. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z Their scarlet stamens were like the frail legs of wasps drooped for flight.... Shadows of Flames A Novel Vivid carmine, stamens forming a golden star on white centre. Roses and Rose Growing Cryptogamous Plants, or Cryptogams, come from minute bodies, which answer to seeds, but are of much simpler structure, and such plants have not stamens and pistils. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools Sterile flowers of numerous stamens, with club-shaped little scales intermixed, filaments very short. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The stamens vary in number from one to many hundreds. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z From the full petal-like collar, her throat rose like a white stamen from a gold corolla. Shadows of Flames A Novel The handsome shiny evergreen foliage and large solitary white flowers with a mass of golden stamens, make it a beautiful object. Roses and Rose Growing A blossom having stamens and no pistil is a Staminate or Male flower. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools Filaments entirely united in a central solid column, bearing 6–12 linear anthers at unequal heights; there are 3–6 awl-shaped rudiments of stamens in the fertile flowers. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z When flowers become double by cultivation, the stamens are converted into petals, as in the paeony, camellia, rose, &c. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z The seed ripened, and produced a hybrid which was intermediate between the two parents, and which, like all the hybrids which this botanist brought up, had imperfect stamens. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology The flowers are unisexual; the staminate are borne in spikes, each flower consisting of a central stamen which is surrounded by two scale-like perianth-leaves. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" One having pistil but no stamens is a Pistillate or Female flower. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools I. Flowers all perfect, rarely some of them with stamens or pistal abortive; spikes all of one sort. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z When there is only one whorl the stamens are usually equal in number to the sepals or petals, and are arranged opposite to the former, and alternate with the latter. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z The caper plant is a trailing shrub, belonging to the Mediterranean region, resembling in habit the common bramble, and having handsome flowers of a pinkish white, with four petals, and numerous long tassel-like stamens. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" Stamen and pistil, with the calyx; one fertile stamen longer than the others. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" The Anther is the essential part of the stamen. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools Leaves in 3's or 4's, or the lower opposite, varying from linear to oval-oblong, minutely serrulate; stamens 9 in the sterile flowers, 3 or 6 almost sessile anthers in the fertile. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z When there is more than one whorl of stamens, then the parts of each successive whorl alternate with those of the whorl preceding it. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z At last, only a half dozen remained about the heart of the flower, when in an instant she was amazed and overjoyed to see a face slowly emerge from amidst the stamens. A Modern Wizard In the variety anemonaeflora nearly all the stamens have become transformed into small petaloid structures which give the flower the appearance of a double anemone. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" Flower of a Cleome of the section Gynandropsis, showing broadened receptacle to bear petals, lengthened stipe below the stamens, and another between these and pistil. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools Flower with a slender tube and narrow recurved lobes; a cup-shaped crown connecting the stamens. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z If the stamens are double the sepals or petals as regards number, the flower is diplostemonous; if more than double, polystemonous. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z It is by far the finest of the Camellias, bearing lovely, pink, semi-double flowers 6 inches in diameter, with bright-yellow, spreading stamens. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens The ten stamens, five short alternating with five long ones, and each bearing its pretty kidney-shaped anther of pale scarlet. The Romance of Natural History, Second Series But most insect-visited flowers have the stamens and pistils associated either in the same or in contiguous blossoms. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools Perianth funnel-form, from a tubular base; the 6 divisions petal-like and similar, spreading above; the 6 stamens inserted in its naked throat; anthers versatile. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z When the stamens are fewer than twenty they are said to be definite; when above twenty they are indefinite, and are represented by the symbol ∞. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z Its flowers are borne in great clusters, and are notable for their pure whiteness and conspicuous bunches of bright-yellow stamens. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens In some orders the parts are numerous, chiefly in the case of the stamens and the carpels, as in the buttercup and other members of the order Ranunculaceae. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" In Sabbatia, the large-flowered species of Epilobium, and strikingly in Clerodendron, the dichogamy is supplemented and perfected by movements of the stamens and style, one or both, adjusted to make sure of cross fertilization. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools Perianth of 6 separate sepals, bell-shaped, lily-like, deciduous; the 6 stamens inserted at their base. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z If the anther is absent the stamen is abortive, and cannot perform its functions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z The orange-yellow flowers, about 1½ inches across, have a large and conspicuous mass of yellow stamens in the centre. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens But within the flower, upon the green velvet stamens, sat a very delicate and graceful little maiden. Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales First Series Artificial System of Linn�us, which was founded on the stamens and pistils. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools Perianth funnel-form or bell-shaped, colored, of 6 distinct sepals, spreading or recurved above, with a honey-bearing furrow at the base, deciduous; the 6 stamens somewhat adhering to their bases. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Under the term disk is included every structure intervening between the stamens and the pistil. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z The hybrids are of good habit, flower with great freedom, are very fragrant, and each bloom frequently has six petals, whilst the stamens are often imperfect. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens And what fine painting and tinting there is on the glumes and pales, stamens and feathery pistils. My First Summer in the Sierra To save room it is not uncommon to use ∞ in place of "many;" thus, "Stamens ∞," for stamens indefinitely numerous: "∞ flora" for pluriflora or many-flowered. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools Perianth spreading; the sepals narrowly lanceolate, tapering to a point from the broader base, where they are united and coherent with the base of the ovary, not gland-bearing, persistent, much longer than the short stamens. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z It may consist of processes rising from the torus, alternating with the stamens, and thus representing an abortive whorl; or its parts may be opposite to the stamens. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z At first sight they remind one of the finest white cr�pe, and flutter in the slightest breeze, their purity enhanced by the great golden boss of stamens from which they radiate. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens The parts of the flower are in fives in calyx, corolla and stamens, followed by two carpels which unite to form a superior ovary. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" Separated Flowers, those having stamens or pistils only, 85. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools Flowers monœcious, with the lower whorls pistillate, or diœcious; stamens few or numerous, covering the receptacle; sepals spreading or reflexed in fruit. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z These serve as nectaries, s, the whorl of stamens inserted on the thalamus and surrounding the pistil. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z An evergreen shrub with acacia-like foliage, bearing clusters of large yellow flowers with bright-red stamens. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens The slender filaments of the stamens vary widely, often in the same flower; the anthers are linear to ovate in shape, attached at the back to the filament, and open lengthwise. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" A stamen: a, filament; b, anther, discharging pollen. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools Style 2-cleft and the achene not at all angled on the back; stamens 2, and bristles 4. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z In Narcissus the appendages are united to form a crown, consisting of a membrane similar to that which unites the stamens in Pancratium. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z The flowers, too, have the tuft of yellow stamens more pronounced than in G. Lasianthus. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens Herbs with milky or colored juice, regular flowers, 2 sepals, 4, 6, or 8 petals, numerous stamens, and a 1-celled ovary. 1a. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State Corolla of a purple Gerardia laid open, showing the four stamens; the cross shows where the fifth stamen would be, if present. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools Sterile flowers of 3–10, mostly 2, distinct or united stamens, accompanied by 1 or 2 small glands. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The stamens and the pistil are sometimes spoken of as the essential organs of the flower, as the presence of both is required in order that perfect seed may be produced. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z The great peculiarity of the hybrid is that no plant has perfect stamens, some being full size but barren, others reduced to mere specks, and occasionally they are quite absent. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens Herbs with watery juice, compound or dissected leaves, and irregular flowers; sepals 2, small; petals 4, in two pairs, and one or both of the outer pair spurred at the base; stamens 6. 1a. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State Corolla, laid open, and stamens of Pentstemon grandiflorus, with a sterile filament in the place of the fifth stamen, and representing it. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools Spadix oblong, entirely covered with flowers; the lower perfect and 6-androus; the upper often of stamens only. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z For instance, in Primula and Linum some flowers have long stamens and a pistil with a short style, the others having short stamens and a pistil with a long style. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z The flowers, somewhat suggestive of those of a single white Camellia, have the edges of the petals wavy, while the reddish stamens are very conspicuous. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens Herbs, with alternate compound leaves, 4 petals, and 6 or more stamens, which are about equal in length; fruit a 1-celled pod. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State This is the powdery matter, commonly of a yellow color, which fills the cells of the anther, and is discharged during blossoming, after which the stamens generally fall or wither away. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools Panicle spike-like, one-sided, or more compound and open; spikelets 7–13-flowered; awn 1–3´´ long or more, usually shorter than or about equalling the glume; stamens 2.—Dry sterile soil, especially southward. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z In some plants the stamens are perfected before the pistil; these are called proterandrous, as in Ranunculus repens, Silene maritima, Zea Mays. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z A form of E. centaurium utterly anomalous in its genus in the insertion of the stamens. Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras Herbs, with usually alternate leaves; the sepals, petals, and pistils each 4 or 5, or in one species the petals none, and the stamens as many or twice as many as the sepals. 1a. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State To see it well in the cell, which like a string of beads form the hairs on the stamens of Spiderwort, a high magnifying power is needed. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools Sterile stamen about as long as the rest. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z I saw epitomized in petal and stamen, all the poetry of the world's dead dreams. The Portal of Dreams Its flowers, which are produced in dense clusters in the axils of the leaves, have a five-toothed calyx, a tubular five-parted corolla, five stamens and a single bifid style. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" Herbs or shrubs, with alternate or opposite leaves; petals and sepals each 5, or the petals none; stamens 5 or 10; styles or stigmas 2-4. 1a. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State Isostemonous, the stamens equal in number to the sepals or petals. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools Flowers diœcious; the sterile in axillary compound racemes or panicles, with 5 sepals and 5 drooping stamens. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z While the flowers are generally diœcious—staminate and pistillate flowers being borne on different plants—there appear also hermaphrodite flowers, having both pistils and fully developed stamens in the same flower. Asparagus, its culture for home use and for market: a practical treatise on the planting, cultivation, harvesting, marketing, and preserving of asparagus, with notes on its history It has pale-purple flowers, rarely more than three in number; the perianth is funnel-shaped, and produced below into a long slender tube, in the upper part of which the six stamens are inserted. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" Leaflets on most of the leaves 3; styles cohering in a column which protrudes from among the stamens Climbing Rose, Rosa setigera. 8b. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State |
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