What is "footstalks"

Usage examples of "footstalks".

They rise from an almost woody axis, and their greatest peculiarity consists in their foliaceous green footstalks, which are almost as broad and even longer than the glandbearing blade.

The parent form of Dionaea and Aldrovanda seems to have been closely allied to Drosera, and to have had rounded leaves, supported on distinct footstalks, and furnished with tentacles all round the circumference, with other tentacles and sessile glands on the upper surface.

In this specimen the rushlike footstalks of the leaves were 20 inches in length.

These trials were made with cut offleaves, and it occurred to me that this circumstance might influence the result, as the footstalks would not perhaps absorb water quickly enough to supply the glands as they continued to secrete.

Four leaves were then placed under a bellglass, with their footstalks in water, with drops of syrup on their backs, but without any meat.

Nearly similar organs occur on the footstalks, but they are smaller and often in a shrivelled condition.

The leaves form minute flattened cups, with the footstalks attached not to one margin, but to the bottom.

These were then placed with their footstalks in water, and after 23 hrs.

The footstalks of this latter species bear multicellular hairs, which we have good reason to believe represent aborted tentacles.