quinate
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It is recognized by its very short quinate leaves and by its nearly sessile cones.
From The Genus Pinus by George Russell Shaw
The quinate were placed at the end of the branches, those with four petals and sepals lower down.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries
One of the most curious instances is the terminal flower of the raceme of the common laburnum, which loses its whole papilionaceous character and becomes as regularly quinate as a common buttercup.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries
In the flowering period I selected four plants with the largest number of quaternate and quinate leaves and destroyed all the others.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries
This number in one summer amounted to 46 quaternate and 16 quinate leaves, and it was evident that I had secured an instance of the rare "five-leaved" race which I am about to describe.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries
