. Flowers and their pedigrees. Botany. 22 Flowers and their Pedigrees. but it is for our present purpose the one of capital importance. The very primitive five-parted common ancestor of the daisy, the rose, the buttercup, and our other quinary flowers, was still an extremely simple and inconspicuous blossom. It had merely green leaves and plain flower-stems, surmounted by a row of five. «, Carpels or ovaries ; ^, stamens, inner row : c, stamens, outer row: d, petals ; ^, calyx. Fig. 7.—Dil^ram of primitive monocotyledonous flower. cr ten stamens, inclosing five or ten carpels. Perhaps beneath
. Flowers and their pedigrees. Botany. 22 Flowers and their Pedigrees. but it is for our present purpose the one of capital importance. The very primitive five-parted common ancestor of the daisy, the rose, the buttercup, and our other quinary flowers, was still an extremely simple and inconspicuous blossom. It had merely green leaves and plain flower-stems, surmounted by a row of five. «, Carpels or ovaries ; ^, stamens, inner row : c, stamens, outer row: d, petals ; ^, calyx. Fig. 7.—Dil^ram of primitive monocotyledonous flower. cr ten stamens, inclosing five or ten carpels. Perhaps beneath them there may have been a little row of cup-shaped green bracts, the predecessors of the calyx which supports all modern flowers ; but of this we cannot be at all sure. At any rate, it had no bright- coloured petals. The origin of these petals is due to the eyes and selective tastes of insects ; and we must. 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. New York, D. Appleton and company
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