quaternate
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I had the good fortune to find two plants of clover, bearing one quinate and several quaternate leaves, on an excursion in the neighborhood of Loosdrecht in Holland.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries
For brevity's sake all these cleft and ternate, double cleft and quaternate cotyledons and even the higher grades are combined under one common name and indicated as tricotyls.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries
They perform the same functions and bear spicules, sometimes in pairs, sometimes quaternate, each spicule being surmounted by a spore.
From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Thomas Taylor
Isolated quaternate leaves are of but little interest, while the occurrence of many on the same individual indicates a distinct variety.
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
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