monopetalous

The lamina or expanded portion of a monopetalous corolla or of a petal or sepal.

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One talks of the typical nature of polypetalous or monopetalous plants; another ridicules the idea, because as he wisely says, some polypetalous plants are monopetalous, and vice versa!! he objects, in fact to what constitutes the great value of a character, _its mode of variation_.

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

= -- With reference to double flowers, it was remarked by Linné that polypetalous flowers were, as he said, multiplied, while monopetalous flowers were duplicated, or triplicated, as the case may be, [435] a statement that is true in the main, though it requires modification.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

A more frequent change among the monopetalous orders is the duplication or triplication of the corolla, in consequence of which there appear to be a series of corollas enclosed one within the other, the lobes of which generally alternate with one another, but which sometimes are superposed.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

Corolla monopetalous, 5 acute lobes, white, of rare and beautiful form.

The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891

Their flowers become monopetalous, and the whole strain is designated by the name of _Papaver_ [662] _bracteatum monopetalum_.

Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891

And it was nothing more, 'would have been a whit roused from its apathy by the information that the primrose is a Dicotyledonous Exogen, with a monopetalous corolla and

Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People Washington Gladden 1877

And it was nothing more, -- would have been a whit roused from its apathy by the information that the primrose is a Dicotyledonous Exogen, with a monopetalous corolla and central placentation.

Science & Education Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

And it was nothing more, -- would have been a whit roused from its apathy, by the information that the primrose is a Dicotyledonous Exogen, with a monopetalous corolla and central placentation.

Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

The separate petals of the cistus and cherry fall as easily as the foxglove drops its bells; -- on the other hand, there are monopetalous things that don't drop, but hold on like the convoluta, [19] and make the rest of the tree sad for their dying.

Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859