foliaceous

• “The adventitious organs appeared as if they were developments from the thalamus -- a kind of foliaceous disc, in fact.”

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

• “I was startled by a great patch of vivid scarlet on the ground, and going up to it found it to be a peculiar fungus, branched and corrugated like a foliaceous lichen, but deliquescing into slime at the touch; and then in the shadow of some luxuriant ferns I came upon an unpleasant thing, — the dead body of a rabbit covered with shining flies, but still warm and with the head torn off.”

  The Island of Doctor Moreau

• “These foliaceous heaps lie along the bank like the slag of a furnace, showing that Nature is “in full blast” within.”

  Walden

• “I feel as if I were nearer to the vitals of the globe, for this sandy overflow is something such a foliaceous mass as the vitals of the animal body.”

  Walden

• “I opened the stomachs of several, and found them largely distended with minced sea-weed (Ulvæ), which grows in thin foliaceous expansions of a bright green or a dull red colour.”

  Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle

• “-- Under this name are imported into this country the dried foliaceous tops of a strongly odoriferous labiate plant, growing three feet high in India and China, called in Bengalee and Hindu, _pucha pat_.”

  The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.

• “M. Fournier [68] gives as an illustration the case of a specimen of _Ruscus aculeatus_ in which there occurred a division of the foliaceous branches into two segments, reaching as far as the insertion of the flower, but no further.”

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

• “Terminal flowers are more subject to it than lateral ones, and if the latter, by accident, become terminal, they seem peculiarly liable to assume a foliaceous condition.”

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

• “Moquin [263] relates having found in the neighbourhood of Montpellier a flower of a tulip the ovary of which was represented by true leaves, which bore on their margins the ovules, and thus presented a striking analogy with the carpels of those Sterculias, like _S. platanifolia_, which are foliaceous in texture and open very early in the course of their development.”

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

• “The several floral parts are here, some virescent, others truly foliaceous, and each whorl is separated from its neighbour by a rather long internode.”

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

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