"Kidney-shaped" Quotes from Famous Books
... the capitate stigma through the tube formed by the anthers, this usually occurring before the anthers open for the discharge of the pollen. The fruit is a two to many-celled berry with central fleshy placenta and many small kidney-shaped seeds which are densely covered with short, stiff hairs, as seen ... — Tomato Culture: A Practical Treatise on the Tomato • William Warner Tracy
... bluish-green glaucous leaves, two or three times divided, the terminal one broader and notched at the end. The rather large, greenish-yellow flowers, borne in corymbs or short terminal clusters, appear all summer. In the round, four or five-lobed seed vessels are black kidney-shaped seeds, which retain their vitality two years or even longer. The whole plant has a very acrid, bitter ... — Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses • M. G. Kains |