. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 124. Flower (|) Fig. 12-3. Diagram. Fig. 126. Long. sect, of flower. petals as sepals. The flowers are hermaphrodite and irregular, and the receptacle slightly concave. Upon the edges of the small cup which constitutes it, are inserted five sepals, imbricated in a varied manner in the bud, but generally quincuncially. Below the posterior sepal, the receptacle dilates as in the Nasturtiums into a hollow free spur. '^ The five petals, scarcely unequal, are imbricated in the bud like the sepals with which they alternate. The androceum is formed at fir
. The natural history of plants. Botany. Fig. 124. Flower (|) Fig. 12-3. Diagram. Fig. 126. Long. sect, of flower. petals as sepals. The flowers are hermaphrodite and irregular, and the receptacle slightly concave. Upon the edges of the small cup which constitutes it, are inserted five sepals, imbricated in a varied manner in the bud, but generally quincuncially. Below the posterior sepal, the receptacle dilates as in the Nasturtiums into a hollow free spur. '^ The five petals, scarcely unequal, are imbricated in the bud like the sepals with which they alternate. The androceum is formed at first of five oppositipetalous stamens; but generally one of them, the anterior, alone becomes fertile, the two posterior disappearing com- 1 A. S. H. in Mim. Mus. vi. 266; ix. 340. —DC. Prodf. iii. 28.—Spach, Suit, a Bvffon, iv. 324.—Endl. n. 6072.—B. H. Gen. 977, n. 5.—H. Bn. in Payer Fam. Nat. 351. 2 like that of the Nasturtiums, the flowers may also become monstrous, the spur en- larging, or diminishing, or. disappearing more or less completely j the perianth thus hecoming apparently regular. In this case, there are often two large fertile stamens, more rarely three, one of which rather smaller, and the staminodes are more developed than in the normal 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 Baillon, Henri Ernest, 1827-1895; Hartog, Marcus Manuel, 1851-. London, L. Reeve & Co.
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