Lexicographical Neighbors of Footstalks
Literary usage of Footstalks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum: Or, The Trees and Shrubs of Britain by John Claudius Loudon (1838)
"... has long winged footstalks, while in C. ... the footstalks arc short and slender.
( See the leaves of C. virginica ..."
2. British Phaenogamous Botany, Or, Figures and Descriptions of the Genera of ...by W. (William) Baxter by W. (William) Baxter (1839)
"... in the axils of these leaves are produced, together with the stalks of the
racemes, several small leaves of a rhomboid shape, and on long footstalks, ..."
3. Flora Cestrica: An Attempt to Enumerate and Describe the Flowering and by William Darlington (1837)
"Peduncles dichotomous, each division ceneral'y bearing 3 flowers on short footstalks.
... footstalks ..."
4. Exotic Flora: Containing Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare Or Otherwise ...by Sir William Jackson Hooker by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1823)
"... its undivided upper leaves, with very long footstalks, and that author even
doubts (if the present individual may not prove a luxuriant variety of it. ..."
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