flower-bud

• “The green fruit curved out its bristly-soft bunch, the purple flower-bud depending stiffly.”

  The Plumed Serpent

• “Now they had unfolded from the hard flower-bud, and had the wonder, and the stillness of”

  The Ladybird

• “Corey slowly raised his closed palm, then unfolded it painstakingly, like a flower-bud.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Good House

• “But behold! the tiny flower-bud of the fern reddened and moved as though alive.”

  Taras Bulba and Other Tales

• “On the 19th August one of the plants had attained a height of above 28 inches, and had nine fine leaves and a flower-bud; the other was about”

  Elements of Agricultural Chemistry

• “The stamens presented different degrees of development; in some cases they were fully formed, the anther-lobes open, and the pollen exposed; while in other instances the filaments were involute or circinate, just as the ordinary stamens are in the unexpanded flower-bud.”

  Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants

• “The accessory bud presents itself as a leaf-bud, a branch, a flower-bud, or a miniature inflorescence; it may be sessile, but is far more frequently stalked, and in more than half the number of cases it is a flower-bud or an inflorescence.”

  Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants

• “The prolonged axis is more frequently terminated by a flower-bud than by a leaf-bud, though it must be remarked, that the lengthened and protruded stem frequently bears leaves upon its sides, even if it terminate in a flower, and thus the new growth partakes of a mixed leafy and floral nature.”

  Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants

• “= -- It is very doubtful whether a flower-bud has ever been found actually on a leaf.”

  Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants

• “Any of the parts of the flower may thus subtend a flower-bud, though probably the new buds more frequently originate in the axils of the sepals than in the other whorls.”

  Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants

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