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A genus of plants, generally with dotted leaves and yellow flowers; -- called also St. John's-wort.

d stamens; having the sepals, petals, and stamens inserted below the pistil; -- said of a flower or a plant. Gray.

Having the leaves expand after the flowers have opened. Henslow.

A rich, powerful, perfume, obtained from the volatile oil of the flowers of Canada odorata, an East Indian tree. [Also written ylang-ylang.]

of pistils by stamens not of their own length, in heterogonously dimorphic and trimorphic flowers. Darwin.

Great; excessive; grievous. [Obs.] Hayward. Immortal flowers, imortelles; everlastings.

A genus of plants, several species of which have very beautiful flowers; -- so called because the elastic capsules burst when touched, and scatter the seeds with considerable force. Called also touch-me-not, jewelweed, and snapweed. I. Balsamina (sometimes called lady's slipper) is the common garden balsam.…

which resembles pearls. [Poetic] Dewdrops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower. Milton.

and sixth, whose ratios are less simple than those of the fifth and forth. -- Imperfect flower (Bot.), a flower wanting either stamens or pistils. Gray. -- Imperfect interval (Mus.), one a semitone less than perfect; as, an imperfect fifth. -- Imperfect number (Math.), a number either greater or less than the sum o…

cieve the water from the roof, by means of the compluvium; generally made ornamental with flowers and works of art around its birm.

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.

Progeny; issue; offspring. All the increase of thy house shall die in the flower of their age. 1 Sam. ii. 33.

umerous or variable to make a particular enumeration important; -- said of the parts of a flower, and the like. Also, indeterminate. Indefinite article (Gram.), the word a or an, used with nouns to denote any one of a common or general class. -- Indefinite inflorescence. (Bot.) See Indeterminate inflorescence, under I…

e equations. -- Indeterminate inflorescence (Bot.), a mode of inflorescence in which the flowers all arise from axillary buds, the terminal bud going on to grow and sometimes continuing the stem indefinitely; -- called also acropetal, botryose, centripetal, and indefinite inflorescence. Gray. -- Indeterminate problem…

), growing in clusters in dark woods, and having scalelike leaves, and a solitary nodding flower. The whole plant is waxy white, but turns black in drying. -- Indian plantain (Bot.), a name given to several species of the genus Cacalia, tall herbs with composite white flowers, common through the United States in rich…

A collection of hairs united so as to form a sort of cup, and inclosing the stigma of a flower.

On the side of a flower which is next the bract; anterior.

Bent or turned abruptly inwards, or toward the axis, as the petals of a flower.

A flowering; the putting forth and unfolding of blossoms.

Thomson. Insect powder,a powder used for the extermination of insects; esp., the powdered flowers of certain species of Pyrethrum, a genus now merged in Chrysanthemum. Called also Persian powder.