quinate

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One of the most curious instances is the terminal flower of the raceme of the common laburnum, which loses its whole papilionaceous character and becomes as regularly quinate as a common buttercup.

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

Radical leaves mostly long-petioled, cordate or even rounder, crenately toothed, very rarely lobed or divided; stem-leaves simply ternate or quinate, with the ovate or lanceolate leaflets serrate, incised, or sometimes parted; fruit ovate, 1½´´ long.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

The quinate were placed at the end of the branches, those with four petals and sepals lower down.

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

More than 1,000 were quaternate or quinate, the ternate leaves being still in the majority.

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