ligule's Usage Examples:

Each leaf bears a ligule resembling that of Selaginella in structure and position.

The most interesting point in the structure of the leaf-base is the presence of a ligule, like that of Isoetes or Selaginella, which was seated in a deep pit, opening on the upper surface of the cushion, just above the insertion of the lamina.

The sporangia, which are situated singly on the adaxial surface of the leaves, between their insertion on the stem and the ligule, arise from a considerable number of epidermal cells.

Of this nature are the scales on the petals in Lychnis, Silene and Cynoglossum, which are formed in the same way as the ligules of grasses.

of Danthonia) with the ligule of the developed foliage-leaf.

In some species a depression of the leaf-surface encloses the ligule, regarding the function of which little is known.

The sheaths (Chamaerops), showing the veins ending in a process 1, called running from the base to the mara ligule; the blade of the gin, and not forming an angular leaf, f.

, possess a ligule; the habit of some palms reminds one of the bamboos; and Juncaceae and a few Liliaceae possess an inconspicuous scarious perianth.

The leaves, which were of simple form and provided with a ligule, were, as the leaf-scars on the stem show, variously arranged.

Melica uniflora has in addition to the ligule, a green erect tongue-like process, from the line of junction of the edges of the sheath.

At the summit of l i the sheath, above the origin of the blade, is the ligule, a usually membranous process of small size (occasionally reaching r in.

The simple, uni-nerved leaves have a ligule near the base; the base of the ligule is somewhat sharply marked off from the other tissues of the leaf.

The rice plant is an annual grass with long linear glabrous leaves, each provided with a long sharply pointed ligule.

Synonyms:

plant structure, plant part,

Antonyms:

artifact,