The plants with hypogynous flowers should, as a rule, have less seed and more vigorous and abundant foliage than those at the other extreme with epigynous flowers.
But the hypogynous poppies, pinks, and St. John's worts have abundance of seed and rather scanty foliage; while the epigynous dogwoods and honeysuckles have few seeds and abundant foliage.
The Stellatæ or Rubiaceæ are without doubt the lowest, because they are epigynous and have a quadri-petalous corolla, with a binary and frequently only follicular ovarium.
In Umbelliferæ the epigynous condition is changed for the perigynous, &c.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "epigynous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
