dehisce
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It has been noted with respect to the nectar of the fuchsia that it is most abundant when the anthers are about to dehisce, and absent in the unexpanded flower.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various
From these masses of ova dehisce into the body cavity and float in its fluid.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
In some Leguminosae, as Arachis, Cathartocarpus Fistula and the tamarind, the fruit must be considered a legume, although it does not dehisce.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
The name capsule is applied generally to all dry syncarpous fruits, which dehisce by valves.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
Sporangia are produced in the Physomycetes usually on the tips or branches of delicate threads, and these when mature dehisce and set free the minute sporidia.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
Mr. Blackley observed that the ripe anthers of rye did not dehisce whilst kept under a bell-glass in a damp atmosphere, whilst other anthers exposed to the same temperature in the open air dehisced freely.
From Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Charles Darwin
I suspect also that the pistil goes on growing for some time after the anthers have dehisced.
From The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species by Charles Darwin
They protruded two very large much-branched panicles; but the florets never opened, though these included fully developed stigmas, and stamens supported on long filaments with large anthers that dehisced properly.
From The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species by Charles Darwin
From the young to the matured dehiscing plant.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
Fruit dehiscing irregularly, the pericarp thin, loose and usually roughened; not salt-marsh plants.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Capsule large, distinctly pedicelled, dehiscing by 4–8 revolute segments.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Capsule globose, exserted, pendulous, dehiscing by several revolute segments.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Lachnobolus incarnatus, A. & S. Sporangia globose or ellipsoidal, substipitate, closely crowded and seated on a common hypothallus; the wall thin and delicate, pellucid, minutely granulose, dehiscing irregularly.
From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by A. P. (Andrew Price) Morgan