quaternate

In the flowering period I selected four plants with the largest number of quaternate and quinate leaves and destroyed all the others.

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

The European Venus 'looking-glass was observed in my garden to produce some quaternate and some quinate flowers on the same specimens.

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

The common laburnum has a variety which often produces quaternate and quinate leaves, and in strawberries I have also seen instances of this abnormality.

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

Nearly all the individuals produced at least some quaternate leaves, and thereby showed the variety to be quite pure.

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

With buttercups and brambles and many others there is only an increase above the typical five; quaternate flowers are wanting or at least are very rare.

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

Often all these deviations may be seen among the seedlings of one lot, and then it is obvious that together they constitute a scale of cleavages, the ternate and quaternate whorls being only cases where the cleaving has reached its greatest development.

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

When a plant bearing a quaternate leaf is thus transplanted however, it rarely repeats the [341] anomaly.

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

I had the good fortune to find two plants of clover, bearing one quinate and several quaternate leaves, on an excursion in the neighborhood of Loosdrecht in Holland.

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

This number in one summer amounted to 46 quaternate and 16 quinate leaves, and it was evident that I had secured an instance of the rare "five-leaved" race which I am about to describe.

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

I have often seen isolated plants with quaternate leaves, but only rarely have I observed individuals with more than one such leaf.

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