. Lessons with plants. Suggestions for seeing and interpreting some of the common forms of vegetation. FlO. of dandelion. in the sun, and bees revelling in color; and weare happy! 195. A dandelion is shown in Fig. 169. It isa strange flow-er, as measured by those whichwe have already studied. It appears to have a TBE DANDMLION calyx in two parts or series, anda great number of petals,we look for the pistils andmens, however, we findthat the supposed simpleflower is really us pull the flowerapart and search forthe ovary or find numerous ob-jects like that in
. Lessons with plants. Suggestions for seeing and interpreting some of the common forms of vegetation. FlO. of dandelion. in the sun, and bees revelling in color; and weare happy! 195. A dandelion is shown in Fig. 169. It isa strange flow-er, as measured by those whichwe have already studied. It appears to have a TBE DANDMLION calyx in two parts or series, anda great number of petals,we look for the pistils andmens, however, we findthat the supposed simpleflower is really us pull the flowerapart and search forthe ovary or find numerous ob-jects like that in The young seedvis evidently at e. Thereare two stigmas at d,and a ring of fiveanthers at h. The .dandelion, therefore, !must be composed ofvery many small andperfect flowers. 196. Looking forthe floral envelopes,we find a tube, and-a long strap-like partrunning off to c. Thismust be corolla, forthe calyx is repre-sented by a ring of soft Fio. daudelion 173. 174 LSSSOJVS WITR PLANTS bristles, a. We have, then, a head made up ofquadriserial flowers, or florets, as the individualflowers may .be called. The entire head is rein-forced by an involucre, in much the method inwhich the dogwood is subtended by four petal-likebracts and the calla spadix by a corolla-likespathe. 197. One cloudy morning the dandelions hadvanished. A search in the grass revealed num-bers of buds, but no blossoms. Then an houror two of sunshine brought them out, and welearned that flowers often behave differently atdifferent times of the day and in various kindsof weather. 198. In spite of the most persistent work withthe lawn mower, the dandelions went to seed pro-fusely. At first, we cut off many of the flower-heads, but as the season advanced they seemed toescape us. They bent their stems upon the groundand raised their heads as high as possible andyet not fall victims to the machine; and presentlythey shot up their long soft stems and scatteredtheir tiny balloons t
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