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A difficult sexual character seems to me the plumules or battledore scales on the wings of certain families and genera of butterflies, almost invariably changing in form with the species and genera in proportion to other changes, and always constant in each species yet confined to the males, and so small and mixed up with the other scales as to produce no effect on the colour or marking of the wings.
No, my little immortal does not touch the earth; he hangs suspended by that long bill, which just tethers him to its flowers. Now and then he will let down the little black tendrils of legs and feet on some bare twig, and there be rests and preens those already smooth plumules with the long slender bodkin you lent him.
This upward movement is independent of the action of light, for it occurred twice in the dark, and on another occasion the light came in on one side alone. The movement no doubt is guided by opposition to the force of gravity, as in the case of the ascent of the plumules of germinating seeds.
This is chiefly noticeable in their margin which is extremely simple and shows few traces of indentation. "A few or many of the next following leaves are often already present in the seed, and lie enclosed between the cotyledons; in their folded state they are known by the name of plumules. Their form, as compared with the cotyledons and the following leaves, varies in different plants.
She had learned it from her grandmother. "Nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen I'll no can set the dogs on him then sixteen, seventeen, eighteen dear me, this is becoming interesting." The plumules were blowing off freely now, like snow from the eaves on a windy day in winter. "Nineteen, twenty, twenty-one I must reverence my elders.
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