ramenta

I was immediately struck with the resemblance of those organs, called ramenta, to what are fairly assumed to be the male bodies, in certain other families of the same grand division; and I at once came to the conclusion, that the barren fronds, were barren, because almost destitute of these ramenta; and that as these ramenta were confined to the base of the stalk, that is, to the part below its first ramification, an obvious necessity existed for the peculiar nature of the vernation.

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Qui melancholicus factus plane desipiebat, multaque stulte loquebaturr, huic exhibitum 12.gr. stibium, quod paulo post atram bilem ex alvo eduxit (ut ego vidi, qui vocatus tanquam ad miraculum adfui testari possum,) et ramenta tunquam carnis dissecta in partes totum excrementum tanquam sanguinem nigerrimum repraesentabat.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

In several cases, each pinna appears to have scales only which become barren lobes? the scales and ramenta have the same imbricate situation.

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I find that the rhizoma is entirely covered with ramenta, which are brown, much detached at the base, and obviously represent a low form of leaf, i.e. in appearance, perhaps partly in function, but not in structure.

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But the four genera alluded to afford evidence enough, and sufficient to show that these ramenta are formed with reference to some important function, that their universality is incompatible with any functions of such minor degree as are attributed to them by those who represent them to be scales or hairs.

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I can see nothing peculiar in the situation of the scales or ramenta to suggest the reason of the situation of the capsules.

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_Gesnera_, _Cardamine_, &c. In truth, the two conditions merge one into the other, as in some begonias, where the ramenta often become leaf-like and bear small bulbils in the axil.

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

I cannot help thinking that the secret is hidden in these ramenta, which, as is known, are so universal as obviously to have higher functions than those of mere covering scales.

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The term "phyllomania," as ordinarily used, is applied to an unwonted development of leafy tissue, as in some begonias where the scales or ramenta are replaced by small leaflets, or as in some cabbage leaves, from the surface of which project, at right angles to the primary plane, other secondary leafy plates; but these are, strictly speaking, cases of hypertrophy (see Hypertrophy).

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

There can be no doubt of the propriety of including the nature of these ramenta and scales in its generic character.

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