. The life of the plant. Plant physiology. STRUCTURE OF THE PLANT 17 inner delicate parts of the flower. This organ is called a sepal, and the whole whorl of such leaves the calyx. Thus a sepal is nothing but a modified leaf. In many cases this fact is obvious—as, for instance, in the sepal of the rose, which keeps its thin lamina. Very few flowers give us the same opportunity as the peony of following this gradual transformation. The sepals in a flower, are followed by a number of leaves coloured white or some other bright shade with a satin or velvet surface, so vainly imitated in artificial
. The life of the plant. Plant physiology. STRUCTURE OF THE PLANT 17 inner delicate parts of the flower. This organ is called a sepal, and the whole whorl of such leaves the calyx. Thus a sepal is nothing but a modified leaf. In many cases this fact is obvious—as, for instance, in the sepal of the rose, which keeps its thin lamina. Very few flowers give us the same opportunity as the peony of following this gradual transformation. The sepals in a flower, are followed by a number of leaves coloured white or some other bright shade with a satin or velvet surface, so vainly imitated in artificial flowers ; these are petals, forming together the corolla. This seems a great leap ; the sepal and the petal of a rose have no Fig. Fig. 8. similarity. But let us put aside the rose and pass to other flowers. Even in the peony some connection between a sepal and a petal can be traced in the red border of the former and in the notch of the upper part of the latter (fig. 8), which is similar to that in the sepal (fig. 7, right hand). In the Camellia, however, we. 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 Timiri?a?zev, K. A. (Kliment Arkad?evich), 1843-1920; Sheremeteva, Anna, tr. London, New York, Bombay, Calcutta, Longmans, Green, and Co.
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