quinate

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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.

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

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The common laburnum has a variety which often produces quaternate and quinate leaves, and in strawberries I have also seen instances of this abnormality.

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The smaller numbers however, are more constant, and deviations from the quinate structure of flowers are rare.

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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.

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