10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STRAMINEOUS»
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Flora of North America: Volume 23: Magnoliophyta: ...
Flowers: perianth bristles 6-7, stramineous, margins and spinules reddish to pale
brown, stout, flattened, subequal, exceeding achene, 2.5-3.2 mm, coarsely
retrorsely spinulose; anthers reddish brown, 1.5-1.9 mm; styles 3~fid or
sometimes ...
Flora of North America Editorial Committee, 2002
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Cacti of the Trans-Pecos & Adjacent Areas
... Big Bend region of the Trans-Pecos and on the Rio Grande plains in deep
South Texas. The specific epithet presumably alludes either to the color-banded (
stramineous and reddish) spines or the red- centered "target" pattern of the
flowers.
A. Michael Powell, James F. Weedin, 2004
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Aquatic and Wetland Plants of Southwestern United States
Mat-forming perennial with short branching rhizomes; culms 5-13 dm. long, erect,
3-10 mm. thick basally; lower sheaths brownish-stramineous; blades 6-12 mm.
broad; spikes 4 or 5 per culm, overlapping for most of their lengths; uppermost ...
Donovan Stewart Correll, Helen B. Correll, 1975
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Vegetation and Flora of the Sonoran Desert
... apiculate, 1.5-2 mm. long, stramineous or fuscous at apex; bractlets broadly
ovate to nearly orbicular, obtuse to rounded at apex, fuscous, scarcely at all
stramineous, 2.5-3 mm- l°ng> scarious, glabrous; perianth lobes lance-linear,
glabrous, ...
Forrest Shreve, Ira Loren Wiggins, 1964
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Flowering Plants: Pokeweeds, Four-o'clocks, Carpetweeds, ...
Fig. 89. Annual from a slender taproot; stems tufted, erect, glandular-viscid,
unbranched, up to 30 cm tall, quickly turning stramineous; basal leaves linear to
oblong to oblanceolate, acute at the apex, tapering to a narrowed, petiolelike
base, ...
Robert H. Mohlenbrock, 2001
scabrous in the upper half; sheaths tight, the upper greenest near the summit, the
lower pale or becoming stramineous or brown, the ventral portion veiny nearly
throughout; spikes 4-12 per culm, 6-12 mm long, pale green to stramineous, ...
Robert H. Mohlenbrock, 2005
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Flora of the Galápagos Islands
stramineous to reddish brown, bearing varying number of stramineous to reddish
scales; blades 35-80 cm long, 15-32 cm wide, oblong, abruptly reduced at base,
without vestigial pinnae, gradually reduced toward apex, the rachis with scales ...
Ira Loren Wiggins, Duncan M. Porter, Edward F. Anderson, 1971
to stramineous, ovoid to ovate-oblongoid, 5–10 mm long, the staminate flowers
above the pistillate flowers; pistillate scales acuminate to long-attenuate, often
awned, greenish brown with a green midnerve; perigynia several per spike, ...
Robert H. Mohlenbrock, 2011
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Transactions of the American Entomological Society
It is separated from M. aterrimus, M. simillimus, M. tenthredinoides, and M.
terminalis in having the hind femur and tibia testaceous, with the basal eighth
stramineous, and in males, the lateral lobe of the ventral plate of the proctiger (
Fig.
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Advances in Hemipterology:
Body stramineous, punctures brown. Head and antennal segment I reddish
brown, antennal segments II-III stramineous with reddish apex, segment IV brown
with basal third reddish. Lateral margin of anterior lobe of pronotum darker than
disk, ...
Alexi Popov, Snejana Grozeva, Nikolay Simov, 2013
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STRAMINEOUS»
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Beachwood's Scott Remer makes finals of Scripps National Spelling …
Last year, he made it to the fifth round, when he misspelled "stramineous." It means straw-colored. Asked if the close-up TV cameras added any pressure, ... «The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com, May 08»
Spellbound about Cuyahoga County Spelling Bee
Stramineous. It means straw colored. Txting & splng. Q: Is text messaging hurting kids' spelling? A. "Oh my, yes," said spelling bee coach Janice Hearst of ... «The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com, Feb 08»
