The archegonia are protected by being sunk in depressions of the disk or by a special two-lipped involucre. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
Sporangia clustered around the slender bristle, which is the prolongation of a vein, and surrounded by a vase-like, slightly two-lipped involucre. From Wordnik.com. [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference
The corolla is of a pale bluish violet, of a deeper tint on the inner surface than the outer, tubular, two-lipped, the upper lip with two and the lower with three lobes. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 799, April 25, 1891] Reference
Bilabiate or two-lipped corolla (bilabiata corolla). From Wordnik.com. [The language of botany : being a dictionary of the terms made use of in that science, principally by Linneus ...] Reference
Pinguicula, "Qy. two-lipped? it is monopetalous, and monosepalous, the calyx and corolla being each all in one piece.". From Wordnik.com. [Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers] Reference
San Diego thornmint (a tiny funnel-shaped, two-lipped, light violet flower that blooms in spring) and Orcutt's hazardia (a native shrub that blooms in late summer and early fall). From Wordnik.com. [Fore, right!] Reference
Mint family, the labiates, or gaping two-lipped flowers, the arched hood here answering to the upper lip, the spreading base forming the lower lip, which is usually designed as a convenient threshold for the insects while sipping the nectar deep within the tube. From Wordnik.com. [My Studio Neighbors] Reference
A bristle-like receptacle and surrounded by an urn-shaped, slightly two-lipped involucre; ring transverse and opening vertically (Fig. 7). From Wordnik.com. [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference
Bentham writes of this genus: -- "The indusium is usually described as broadly two-lipped, without any distinct stigma. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference
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