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A floral ornament. See Palmette.

Having some portion of the floral envelopes attached to the pericarp to form the fruit, as in the checkerberry, the mulberry, and the pineapple.

The separation of a leaf or floral organ into two more parts.

Having floral ornaments; as, floriated capitals of Gothic pillars.

Any floral ornament or decoration. Rock.

. A complete flower consists of two essential parts, the stamens and the pistil, and two floral envelopes, the corolla and callyx. In mosses the flowers consist of a few special leaves surrounding or subtending organs called archegonia. See Blossom, and Corolla.

Inclosed; confined. Included stamens (Bot.), such as are shorter than the floral envelopes, or are concealed within them.

Wanting any of the usual floral organs; -- said of a flower. Incomplete equation (Alg.), an equation some of whose terms are wanting; or one in which the coefficient of some one or more of the powers of the unknown quantity is equal to 0.

An oily liquid, Cl3.CHO, analogous to chloral and bromal.

somus discolor), the only living type of a family allied to the rollers. It has a pair of loral plumes. The male is glossy green above, with metallic reflections; the female is spotted with brown and black.

Prune the luxuriant, the uncouth refine. Pope. Luxuriant flower (Bot.), one in which the floral envelopes are overdeveloped at the expense of the essential organs.

amorphosis (Bot.), the doctrine that flowers are homologous with leaf buds, and that the floral organs are transformed leaves.

Having a single floral envelope, that is, a calyx without a corolla, or, possibly, in rare cases, a corolla without a calyx.

usual number of petals in consequence of the abnormal multiplication of the parts of the floral whorls.

A floral ornament, common in Greek and other ancient architecture; -- often called the honeysuckle ornament.

The metamorphosis of various floral organs, usually stamens, into petals.

The class of flowering plants including all which have true flowers with distinct floral organs; phanerogamia.

Having true flowers with with distinct floral organs; flowering.

A retrograde metamorphosis of the floral organs to the condition of leaves.

The metamorphosis of other floral organs into sepals or sepaloid bodies.