If the crop is to be threshed, the harvesting should be done when the kernels have passed out of the milk into the hard dough state.
Put barnyard manure on the land just after the first breaking and disk the manure into the soil.
Would a ration of corn meal and corn stover be a desirable ration?
The stamensas pollen-bearers, then, are very important.
Pollination=: the act of carrying pollen from stamensto pistils.
Stamens and pistils may even occur in separate plants, and some blossoms have no sepals or petals at all.
Can you find any plants that have their stamens and ovaries on separate individuals?
Other plants bear their stamens and pistils in separate blossoms.
For example, in some strawberries the stamens are absent or useless; that is, they bear no good pollen.
Struck with the stamens and pistil, Bertram conveyed it home, that he might examine it more carefully.
The stamens and pistil of this flower have something grotesque in their appearance when disclosed, resembling to a fanciful mind an animal with arms, and a head projecting and stooping forward.
Stamens and pistils of plants shew marks of sensibility.
Linnaean class of plants, in which the stamens are united with the pistil.
Make the outer stamens, which are heavier than those inside and somewhat irregular, with a double thread of Corticelli Filo Silk, and the inner stamens with a single thread.
But equally well, the stamens or male organs may reside in one plant, and the ovary and pistil or female organs may reside in another.
The stamens on the one hand, and the ovary and pistil on the other, may indeed reside in one blossom, which then exists in a married or reproductive state.
As the stamens and pistil are borne by different flowers, cross-fertilization is necessary.
In the large tropical genus Croton a pentamerous calyx and corolla are generally present, the stamens are often very numerous, and the female flower has three carpels.
Take this little collection, which I have here presented, of stamens and petals selected at random from common blossoms.
The flower opens; its stigma is closed; the projecting stamens scatter the loose pollen upon the moth as it sips close at the blossom's throat, and as it flies from flower to flower it conveys it to other blossoms whose stigmas are matured.
With no stamens to bequeath pollen, and no stigma to welcome other pollen, what need to open?
At A we see the same flower cut open sideways, the waiting, expectant stamens tucked away at the sides, leaving a free opening to the base of the flower.
Pistils and stamens in flowers are modified petals, or rather petals are modified stamens, the "doubling" of flowers representing the being thus accomplished, while the petals again are mere changed leaves.
One by one the stamens and also the stigma have been devoured for food, until the mere vestiges of them now remain.
Second Day's Welcome--Stigma bent downward beneath two withered Stamens at Doorway.
E, diagram of the flower; the position of the missing stamens indicated by small circles.
The place of the missing stamens is indicated by small circles.
The individual flowers are very small and simple in structure, being often reduced to the gynœcium or andræcium, carpels and stamens being almost always in separate flowers.
In these there are two, sometimes three, sets of flowers differing very much in the relative lengths of stamens and pistil, those with long pistils having short stamens and vice versa.
The stamens are usually four in number through the abortion of one of them, but sometimes only two perfect stamens are present.
One of the commonest means of avoiding self-fertilization is the maturing of stamensand pistils at different times.
The stamensare also never more than five, and very often one or more are abortive.
The flowers usually have a calyx, and may have only stamens or carpels, or both.
The flowers differ mainly from the Papilionaceæ in being less perfectly papilionaceous, and the stamens are almost entirely distinct (Fig.
In the Isocarpæ there are usually twice as many stamens as petals, occasionally the same number.
The flowers are probably quite independent of insect aid in pollination, as the stamens are so placed as to almost infallibly shed their pollen upon the stigma.
The normal colour of the flowers, the majority of which have neither stamens nor pistil, is pink; but by the influence of sundry agents in the soil, such as alum or iron, they become changed to blue.
Stamens 5, inserted on the throat of the corolla, filaments joined to form a very short tube with anthers straight, short and crowned by a membranous bilocular appendix.
Blanco), which is distinguished from the former by its six stamens inserted on the pistil and its violet-colored stem.
Staminate flowers: calyx, corolla, stamens and anthers as in the hermaphrodite flowers.
Stamens didynamous, their lower parts grown to the tube of the corolla.
Stamens indefinite, fixed in the base of the column of the receptacle on the superior portion of which are inserted the ovaries which contain many ovules arranged in two vertical series.
Stamens numerous, inserted in the calyx, as long as the corolla.
Diagram of Trimerous Symmetrical Flower of Iris, with two whorls of perianth, three stamens in one whorl and an ovary formed of three carpels.
The three dots indicate the position of an inner whorl of stamens which is present in the allied families Amaryllidaceae and Liliaceae but absent in Iridaceae.
Belonging to the class Polyadelphia; having stamens united in three or more bundles.
Having visible flowers containing distinct stamens and pistils; -- said of plants.
A Linnæan class of plants having stamens united in three or more bodies or bundles by the filaments.
A genus of bitter herbs or shrubs having eight stamens and a two-celled ovary (as the Seneca snakeroot, the flowering wintergreen, etc.
Having the stigma visible at the throad of a gamopetalous corolla, while the stamens are concealed in the tube; -- said of dimorphous flowers.
They have opposite, generally entire leaves and large panicles of small regular flowers, with a bell-shaped calyx and a 4-lobed cylindrical corolla, with the two stamens characteristic of the order attached at the mouth of the tube.
Speedily, the stamensshrivel and pale green pendants, which are the seeds, cluster upon the twigs.
Ten stamens stand about the free central pistil, and the anther of each is hid in a pocket of the corolla--the slender filament bent backward.
Each flower of each cluster has a calyx with scalloped edges, and a fringe of four to nine stamens hanging far out and surrounding the central solitary ovary.
Each flower of the pyramid has its throat-dashes of yellow and red, and the curving yellow stamens are thrust far out of the dainty ruffled border of the corolla.
On page 5, the method by which the pickerel weed, another flower whose stamens and pistil occur in three different lengths, should be read to avoid much repetition.
The countless stamens which feed them generously with pollen willingly left for them alone must also dust them well as they crawl about before flying to another fetid lunch.
Flower, with two petals, petaloid scales and stamens removed, enlarged.
Frequently, they are out and the scales dropped in February; but the yellow stamens and the long-tongued pistils do not rise above the grey fur until March, at least.
A single look shows that this worm-like object is a catkin, and the lovely red is the colour of the many stamens that contain the pollen dust.
When this is ripe thestamens burst and let it fly away.
The silky stamens were still curled about the central style, but the splendor of color which was coming was already suggested, and a breath of intoxicating fragrance stole from the heart of the immaculate flower.
A group of the innumerable stamens have grown together on one side of the flower into a hood, which bends over the stigma and the other stamens.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stamens" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
