sessile

La partie supérieure de la tige est totalement sessile.
The upper part of the stem is quite leafless.
Les feuilles rappellent celles des plus célèbres espèces que sont le liondent d’automne (Leontodon autumnalis) et le pissenlit (Taraxacum), mais ces plantes possèdent des rosettes basales et leur tige est un scape sessile.
The leaves are reminiscent of more well-known autumn hawkbit (Leontodon autumnalis) and dandelion (Taraxacum) leaves, but these plants have basal rosettes and their stem is a leafless scape.
Mais à peine mon travail avait-il été publié, qu'un habile paléontologiste, M. Bosquet, m'envoya le dessin d'un spécimen indiscutable de Cirripède sessile qu'il avait extrait lui-même de la craie de Belgique.
But my work had hardly been published, when a skilful palæontologist, M. Bosquet, sent me a drawing of a perfect specimen of an unmistakeable sessile cirripede, which he had himself extracted from the chalk of Belgium.
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