axile

AXILE, or AXIAL, a term (= related to the axis) used technically in science; in botany an embryo is called axile when it has the same direction as the axis of the seed.

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The late Professor E. Forbes describes [103] an instance of true foliar and true axile placentation in the same flower in _Vinca minor_.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

The disjunction or dialysis of the carpels, for instance, frequently renders axile placentation marginal.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

In malformed flowers of _Digitalis_ the change from axile to parietal placentation may often be seen.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

= -- The appendicular organs may likewise be found united to the axile ones.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

The style was present even in those flowers where there was no axile placenta; hence in these cases it could not be, as

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

= -- This condition is scarcely to be distinguished from multiplication of the axile organs (which see).

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

Abortion of axile organs, 455 -- Of receptacle, 457 -- Of leaves,

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

That the outer portion (so-called calyx-tube) of these fruits is really an axile product there can now be little doubt; and, as if to show their axile nature, they occasionally produce leaves from their sides, as before mentioned.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

The placentation is constantly axile in the inferior row and parietal in the upper one.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters