. Wild flowers of Canada [microform]. Wild flowers; Flowers; Botany; Fleurs sauvages; Fleurs; Botanique. WiM H,-r. 'S(».Tiinb:" iv "l>.); between us pt imitivc hue of leafy grocn. A m mth 'atcr we come upon a buttercup, one of whose sepals li,is grown out as a perfect leaf Later still in summer we tind a rose in the .same surprising ca^e. while not far ii(T is a columbine bearing pollen on its spurs instead of its anthers. fiinily tie is in all this? No other than that sepals, petals, anthers and pistils are but leaves in disguise, and that w
. Wild flowers of Canada [microform]. Wild flowers; Flowers; Botany; Fleurs sauvages; Fleurs; Botanique. WiM H,-r. 'S(».Tiinb:" iv "l>.); between us pt imitivc hue of leafy grocn. A m mth 'atcr we come upon a buttercup, one of whose sepals li,is grown out as a perfect leaf Later still in summer we tind a rose in the .same surprising ca^e. while not far ii(T is a columbine bearing pollen on its spurs instead of its anthers. fiinily tie is in all this? No other than that sepals, petals, anthers and pistils are but leaves in disguise, and that we have detected nature returning to the form from which a^es ago she began to transmute the parts of flowers in all their leeniing diversity. 'I'he leaf is tne parent not only of ,ill these but of the delicate tendrils whic h save a vine the cost of building a stem stout cnoiigli to llfi it to open air and sunshine. However thoroughf\'. or however long, a be impressed upon a part ol a phmt, it may on occasion relapse into a older still, resume a shape all but forgo'ten, and thus tell a story of its past that otherwise might remain Ibr ever unsuspected. Thus i~ it with the somewhat " sport " that gives us a morning glory or a harebell in its primitive form of unjoined The bell form of these and flowers has established itsell by being iniicli more effective than the original shape in dusting insect servitors with pollen. Not only the forms of flowers but their massing has been determined by insect preferences; a wide prolusion of lilosscnns grow in spikes, umbels, and other clusters, all economising the time of winged allies, .-md attracting their attention from afar as scattered lilc)ssoms wcnild fail to do. liesides tins massing, we have union more iiuiinaie still as in the dandelion, the sunflower and ?!>(• marigold. These and their fellow composites each seem an individual; a penknife disc loses each of them
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