. Botany all the year round; a practical text-book for schools. Botany. 202 THE FLOWER Regular, having all the parts of each set of the same size and shape. Symmetrical, having the same number of organs, or multiples of the same number in each set. The opposites of these terms are: imperfect, incom- plete, irregular, and asymmetrical, or unsymmetrical. Note that regularity refers to form, symmetry to number of parts, and that a flower may be perfect without being complete. EPIGYNOUS MONOCOTYLEDONS Material. — Any flower of the iris or amaryllis families. Iris is used in the text. Blackberry li
. Botany all the year round; a practical text-book for schools. Botany. 202 THE FLOWER Regular, having all the parts of each set of the same size and shape. Symmetrical, having the same number of organs, or multiples of the same number in each set. The opposites of these terms are: imperfect, incom- plete, irregular, and asymmetrical, or unsymmetrical. Note that regularity refers to form, symmetry to number of parts, and that a flower may be perfect without being complete. EPIGYNOUS MONOCOTYLEDONS Material. — Any flower of the iris or amaryllis families. Iris is used in the text. Blackberry lily {Belamcanda), Atamasco lily {Zephyran- ihes), snowdrop, daffodil, narcissus, etc., will make good examples. 292. The Perianth. — Compare with the flower last ex- amined, a common flag, or iris. Notice that the latter has no peduncle, but is sessile in the axil of a large, membra- nous bract called a spat he. Ob- serve also that the lower part of P/7'///'/l,\-V\^ the perianth is united into a 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 Andrews, Eliza Frances, b. 1840. New York, Cincinnati [etc. ] American book company
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