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Every one knows the difference in the ray and central florets of, for instance, the daisy, and this difference is often accompanied with the abortion of parts of the flower.

She is almost a child herself, and the little pink round things will hang about her like florets round the central flower; and the husband will look on, smiling benignly, able, whenever he chooses, to withdraw into the sanctuary of his wisdom, towards which his sweet wife will look reverently, and never lift the curtain.

The fall of snowflakes in a still air, preserving to each crystal its perfect form; the blowing of sleet over a wide sheet of water, and over plains; the waving ryefield; the mimic waving of acres of houstonia, whose innumerable florets whiten and ripple before the eye; the reflections of trees and flowers in glassy lakes; the musical steaming odorous south wind, which converts all trees to windharps; the crackling and spurting of hemlock in the flames, or of pine logs, which yield glory to the walls and faces in the sittingroom,--these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.

"The greatest benefit is to guarantee a student full time access to his language course, teaching him an autonomic approach in language learning," said Yvan Floret, senior trainer of the Tell Me More program.

The CIE L and a values of the floret parts at FB, including the petals, dorsal sepals, laterals sepals, and lips, from the two Vanda hybrids (Fig.

At each node, the rachilla bore a lemma in whose axil a floret axis ascended.

In early spring of 1999, two spring safflower varieties and three floret removal stages were evaluated in the Karaj-Iran.

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where NSr is the number of reproductive stolons produced per plant, NI the number of inflorescences per reproductive stolon that reached pollination stage, NFv the number of viable florets per inflorescence, and NO the number of ovules per floret.

Each composite "flower" is actually an inflorescence or "flower head" consisting of many small whole flowers or florets. Each floret has all the parts of a full-sized flower; petals, stamens, the male organ, and/or pistil, the female portion which, when fertilized produces a seed.

His teenage refusal to allow a floret to pass his lips caused a year-long fissure in his relationship with our dad, a fissure deepened by the fact I ate my portion as well as his, thereby giving my dad a vegetable stick to beat my brother with.