quaternate

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The European Venus' looking-glass was observed in my garden to produce some quaternate and some quinate flowers on the same specimens.

From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Vries, Hugo de

For brevity's sake all these cleft and ternate, double cleft and quaternate cotyledons and even the higher grades are combined under one common name and indicated as tricotyls.

From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Vries, Hugo de

I had the good fortune to find two plants of clover, bearing one quinate and several quaternate leaves, on an excursion in the neighborhood of Loosdrecht in Holland.

From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Vries, Hugo de

In the flowering period I selected four plants with the largest number of quaternate and quinate leaves and destroyed all the others.

From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Vries, Hugo de

With buttercups and brambles and many others there is only an increase above the typical five; quaternate flowers are wanting or at least are very rare.

From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Vries, Hugo de