Meanings of illegitimate plants in English

Many hybrids are the most persistent and profuse flowerers, as are some illegitimate plants.

Altogether there is the closest identity in character and behaviour between illegitimate plants and hybrids.

We will now turn to the fertility and powers of growth possessed by the illegitimate plants.

The lessened fertility of most of these illegitimate plants is in many respects a highly remarkable phenomenon.

The chief result is that these illegitimate plants, as they may be called, are not fully fertile.

Large capsules were always selected for counting, in order to avoid over-estimating the infertility of the several illegitimate plants.

Both with hybrids and illegitimate plants the innate degree of sterility is highly variable in plants raised from the same mother-plant.

This mid-styled plant was freely and legitimately fertilised during the unfavourable year of 1864, by numerous surrounding legitimate and illegitimate plants.

This mid-styled plant was freely and legitimately fertilised, during the rather unfavourable year 1864, by numerous surrounding legitimate and illegitimate plants.

Tabulated results of the fertility of the foregoing illegitimate plants, when legitimately fertilised, generally by illegitimate plants, as described under each experiment.

It is possible to raise from dimorphic species, both long-styled and short-styled illegitimate plants, and from trimorphic plants all three illegitimate forms.

I succeeded in raising from the above seven short-styled illegitimate plants, fertilised with their own-form pollen, only six plants-grandchildrenof the first union.

With hybrids raised from the same seed-capsule the degree of sterility is innately variable, so it is in a marked manner with illegitimate plants.

During 1865 it was surrounded by illegitimate plants of various parentage, many of which were highly fertile, and must thus have been legitimately fertilised.

This short-styled plant was allowed during 1865 to be freely and legitimately fertilised by illegitimate plants descended from self-fertilised mid-, long- and short-styled plants.

This long-styled plant was allowed in 1865 to be freely fertilised by illegitimate plants of the other two forms, most of which were moderately fertile.