ligulate

• “I am unable to learn to what species it is most nearly related; its name, which doubtless has reference to its peculiar form and habit, would seem to isolate it even from its parents, if such are known; it, however, belongs to that section having thick leathery leaves, ligulate, encrusted, arranged in rosette form, and having excavated dots.”

  Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.

• “_Ligulifloræ_, the florets are naturally all ligulate, so that the change above mentioned is not in itself a very grave one.”

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

• “On the other hand, were the ligulate florets to be all replaced by tubular ones, the term peloria would be more strictly applicable.”

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

• “In what are erroneously called double flowers in this order, _e. g._ in the Chrysanthemum, Dahlia, &c. &c., the florets are all ligulate.”

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

• “_Compositæ_ there is, as is well known, a distinction between the florets of the "disc" and those of the "ray," the latter being ligulate, the former tubular.”

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

• “The passage of ligulate to tubular corollas among _Compositæ_ is not of such common occurrence as is the converse change.”

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

• “I owe to Mr. Berkeley the communication of a capitulum of a species of _Bidens_, in which there was a transition from the form of ligulate corollas to those that were deeply divided into three, four, or five oblong lobes.”

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

• “_Glyceria fluitans_, the spikelet of which, as observed by Wigand, [291] consisted below of the ordinary unchanged glumes, but the remaining paleæ as well as the lodicles and stamens were represented by ligulate leaves.”

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

• “The ligulate corollas also may often be found in Chrysanthemums, Dahlias, &c., more or less deeply divided into their component parts.”

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

• “The _leaf-blade_ is flat, thinly coriaceous, linear-lanceolate and acuminate, or ligulate with a rounded tip, 3 to 5 inches in length, 3/16 to 5/16 inch wide, glabrous or very thinly scaberulous, base rounded or slightly cordate with long white ciliate hairs on the small basal lobes.”

  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses

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