. Flowers and their pedigrees . , butare a group of heterogeneous degraded lilies, containing almost all thosekinds in which the reduced florets are covered by a single conspicuousglume-like bract. It will be seen from the sequel that these bracts arenot truly homologous to the glumes or outer palea: of grasses. The Origin of Wheat. i6i of small white petals {c) known as lodicules, threestamens {b), and an ovary with two feathery styles {a).Moreover, the two pales or calyx-pieces are notsimilar and symmetrical, for the outer one {e) is sim-ple and convex, while the inner one {d) is apparentlyd
. Flowers and their pedigrees . , butare a group of heterogeneous degraded lilies, containing almost all thosekinds in which the reduced florets are covered by a single conspicuousglume-like bract. It will be seen from the sequel that these bracts arenot truly homologous to the glumes or outer palea: of grasses. The Origin of Wheat. i6i of small white petals {c) known as lodicules, threestamens {b), and an ovary with two feathery styles {a).Moreover, the two pales or calyx-pieces are notsimilar and symmetrical, for the outer one {e) is sim-ple and convex, while the inner one {d) is apparentlydouble, being made up of two pieces rolled into one,and still possessing two green midribs, which show.
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