LEAVES: Leaflets short-stalked, with a rounded apex. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
Sterile part short-stalked above the middle of the stem. From Wordnik.com. [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference
Leaves usually obovate, short-stalked, conspicuously veined below. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
FRUIT: A short-stalked, cylindrical capsule that splits into 5 parts. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
Fronds linear-lanceolate, short-stalked and rigid, eight to fifteen inches long. From Wordnik.com. [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference
In high-yield agriculture equally short-stalked plants will receive equal sunlight. From Wordnik.com. [Forgotten Benefactor of Humanity] Reference
It is a low tree with short-stalked, firm, brittle, simple leaves of large size, oval shape, and dark green colour. From Wordnik.com. [Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer] Reference
Sporangia large, globular, short-stalked, borne on the margin of the divisions and opening into two valves by a longitudinal slit. From Wordnik.com. [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference
Stout, short-stalked wheat also neatly supports its kernels, whereas tall-stalked wheat may bend over at maturity, complicating reaping. From Wordnik.com. [Forgotten Benefactor of Humanity] Reference
The flower cluster (raceme), supported on a stout stalk, consists of 180 to 200 short-stalked flowers arranged in threes around the axis. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 10] Reference
The flower cluster (raceme), 'supported on a stout stalk, consists of 180 to 200 short-stalked flowers arranged in threes around the axis. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 24] Reference
Flat dishes covered with wet sand are also useful for short-stalked or heavy-headed flowers; even partially-withered blooms will revive when placed on this cool moist substance. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 354, October 9, 1886] Reference
The foliage is smaller than that of most kinds; the leaves are radical, rather short-stalked, pedate, and divisions narrow; they are of a leathery substance and a dark green colour. From Wordnik.com. [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference
The leaves are of varying sizes, oval, lance-shaped, and short-stalked, distinctly veined and slightly wrinkled, sharp but finely toothed, of a dark shining green colour on the upper and a greyish-green on the under side. From Wordnik.com. [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference
= -- Capsules ovate, rough, short-stalked; seeds densely cottony. From Wordnik.com. [Handbook of the Trees of New England] Reference
Examine one through a lens and you'll see that it's covered with short-stalked scales. From Wordnik.com. [CITIZEN-TIMES.com - News] Reference
= -- Fruiting catkins 1-2 inches long, cylindrical, short-stalked, spreading or drooping: nut obovate to oval, narrower than its wings; combined wings butterfly-shaped, nearly twice as wide as long. From Wordnik.com. [Handbook of the Trees of New England] Reference
= -- Maturing in the second year, single or in pairs, sessile or short-stalked: cup sometimes turbinate, usually saucer-shaped with a flat or rounded base, often contracted at the opening and surmounted by. From Wordnik.com. [Handbook of the Trees of New England] Reference
Sterile catkins 1-3 inches long, fertile at first about the same length, gradually elongating; bracts cut into several lanceolate or linear divisions, silky-hairy; stamens about 10; anthers red: ovary short-stalked; stigmas two, 2-lobed, red. From Wordnik.com. [Handbook of the Trees of New England] Reference
Catkins appearing with the leaves, spreading, stalked, -- sterile 1-2 inches long; stamens 2-4, usually 2; filaments distinct, pubescent below; ovary abortive: fertile catkins slender; stigma nearly sessile; capsule long-conical, smooth, short-stalked. From Wordnik.com. [Handbook of the Trees of New England] Reference
Sterile 3-4 inches long, fertile at first about the same length, gradually elongating, loosely flowered; bracts irregularly and rather narrowly cut-toothed, each bract subtending a cup-shaped disk; stamens numerous; anthers red: ovary short-stalked; stigmas two, 2-lobed, large, wavy-margined. From Wordnik.com. [Handbook of the Trees of New England] Reference
Sterile catkins when expanded 3-4 inches long, at length pendent; scales cut into irregular divisions, reddish; stamens numerous, anthers oblong, dark red: fertile catkins spreading, few and loosely flowered, gradually elongating; scales reddish-brown; ovary short-stalked; styles 2-3, united at the base; stigmas 2-3, conspicuous. From Wordnik.com. [Handbook of the Trees of New England] Reference
Six or seven of these little short-stalked knobs of florets are arranged in a circlet around a somewhat larger knob, and each of them gives off from its stalk one long and two shorter white, hairy, leaf-like growths, flat and blade-like in shape and spreading outwards from the circle, so that the whole series resemble the rays of a star (or more truly of a star-fish!). From Wordnik.com. [More Science From an Easy Chair] Reference
The three leaflets are short-stalked. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 25] Reference
10; anthers red: ovaries short-stalked; stigmas two, 2-lobed, red. From Wordnik.com. [Handbook of the Trees of New England] Reference
Pinnæ numerous, thin, short-stalked, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, those of the fertile fronds narrower. From Wordnik.com. [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference
= -- Cones, 4-6 inches long, short-stalked, narrow-cylindrical, often curved, finally pendent, green, maturing the second year; scales rather loose, scarcely thickened at the apex, not spiny; seeds winged, smooth. From Wordnik.com. [Handbook of the Trees of New England] Reference
Leaves pinnately compound, alternate; rachis abruptly widened at base; leaflets 5-13, opposite, short-stalked except the odd one, 2-3 inches long, 1-2 inches wide, smooth, light green and mostly glossy when young, becoming dark green and often dull, obovate to oval or ovate; entire, often wavy-margined; apex acute, acuminate, or obtuse; base mostly obtuse or rounded; veins prominent, often red; stipules none. From Wordnik.com. [Handbook of the Trees of New England] Reference
Appearing with the leaves from the axils of the short, lateral shoots, in catkins, sterile and fertile on different trees, stalked, -- sterile spreading, narrowly cylindrical; calyx none; corolla none; bracts entire, rounded to oblong, villous, ciliate; stamens about 5: fertile catkins spreading; calyx none; corolla none; bracts ovate to narrowly oblong, acute, villous; ovary short-stalked, with two small glands at its base, ovate-conical, sometimes obovate, smooth; stigmas 2, short. From Wordnik.com. [Handbook of the Trees of New England] Reference
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