. The colours of flowers [microform] : as illustrated in British flora. Flowers; Color of flowers; Flowers; Fleurs; Couleur des fleurs; Fleurs. LAW OF P/WGRESSIVE COLOURATION, 55 sage (Fig. 19), and basil, which it need hardly be said are great favourites with bees. Ground-ivy [Nepeta <^le- chomd) is bright blue ; catmint {Nepeta cataria), pale blue; Prunella, violet-purple ; and common bugle {Ajtiga reptans), blue or flesh-colour. Many of the others are purple or purplish. It must be added that m this family the flowers are very liable to vary within the limit of the same species ; and red
. The colours of flowers [microform] : as illustrated in British flora. Flowers; Color of flowers; Flowers; Fleurs; Couleur des fleurs; Fleurs. LAW OF P/WGRESSIVE COLOURATION, 55 sage (Fig. 19), and basil, which it need hardly be said are great favourites with bees. Ground-ivy [Nepeta <^le- chomd) is bright blue ; catmint {Nepeta cataria), pale blue; Prunella, violet-purple ; and common bugle {Ajtiga reptans), blue or flesh-colour. Many of the others are purple or purplish. It must be added that m this family the flowers are very liable to vary within the limit of the same species ; and red. white, or purple specimens are not uncommon in many of the normally blue Fig. 19—Flower of sage {Salvia) visited by b^e ; blue. The Scrophularmecs^n^ other allied irregular tubular families are mostly spotted, and so belong to a later stage of our inquiry; but even amongst this group, the Veronica genus has almost always pure blue flowers ; foxglove {Digitalispurpurea) is purple; and most of the Kroomrapes {Orobanchacece) are more or less bluish. Blue and lilac also appear abundantly in spots or stripes in many species of Linaria., in Euphrasia^ and in other genera. We have given so much consideration to the Dico- tyledons that the relatively simple and homogeneous. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Allen, Grant, 1848-1899. London : Macmillan
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