. The story of the plants [microform]. Plants; Botany; Plantes; Botanique. HOW FLOWERS CLUB TOGETHER. 153 closer into it you will see it is really a great group of flowersâa compound flower-head, com- posed of many dozen distinct blossoms or florets, as we call them (Fig. 33). These, however, are not all alike. The florets in the centre, which you took no doubt at first sight for the stamens and pistils, are small yellow tubular blossoms, each with a combined corolla of five lobes, little or no visible calyx, five stamens united in a ring round the style, and a pistil consisting of an in- feri
. The story of the plants [microform]. Plants; Botany; Plantes; Botanique. HOW FLOWERS CLUB TOGETHER. 153 closer into it you will see it is really a great group of flowersâa compound flower-head, com- posed of many dozen distinct blossoms or florets, as we call them (Fig. 33). These, however, are not all alike. The florets in the centre, which you took no doubt at first sight for the stamens and pistils, are small yellow tubular blossoms, each with a combined corolla of five lobes, little or no visible calyx, five stamens united in a ring round the style, and a pistil consisting of an in- ferior ovary, with a style divided above into a two- fold stigma (Fig. 34). Here we have clear evidence that the plant belongs by origin to the five-petalled group; it rather resembles the harebell, in the plan of its flower, on a much smaller scale ; but it has almost lost all trace of a separate calyx, it has its five petals united into a fig. 35.âsingle floret tubular corolla, it has still from the ray of a daisy, â¢â ⢠⢠^ n i. PINK AND WHITE, WITH Its origmal five stamens, ^^ ^^,^^^^ ^^^ ^^ ,^^. but its carpels are now mens. reduced to one, with a single seed, though traces of an earlier inter- mediate stage, when the carpels were two, remains even yet in the divided stigma. So much for the inner flowers or florets in the daisy. The outer ones, which you took at first. 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 : G. Newnes
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