. Flowers and their pedigrees. Botany. Flowers and their Pedigrees. ever, it could not easily replace them, so it has coloured its calyx or flower-cup instead, which answers exactly the same purpose. In other words, having no petals, it has been obliged to pour the purple pigment with which it allures its butterfly friends into the part answering to the green covering of the salad-burnet. It has a head of small coloured blossoms, extremely like those of the sister species in many respects, only purple instead of green. Moreover, to suit its new. Fig 49.—Flower of Stanch-Wound or Great Burnet.
. Flowers and their pedigrees. Botany. Flowers and their Pedigrees. ever, it could not easily replace them, so it has coloured its calyx or flower-cup instead, which answers exactly the same purpose. In other words, having no petals, it has been obliged to pour the purple pigment with which it allures its butterfly friends into the part answering to the green covering of the salad-burnet. It has a head of small coloured blossoms, extremely like those of the sister species in many respects, only purple instead of green. Moreover, to suit its new. Fig 49.—Flower of Stanch-Wound or Great Burnet. habits, it has its cup much more tubular than that of the salad-bi«rnet; its stamens do not hang out to the wind, but are inclosed within the tube ; and the pistil has its sensitive surface shortened into a little sticky knob instead of being split up into a number of long fringes or plumes. All these peculiarities of course depend upon its return from the new and bad habit of wind-fertilisa;tion to the older and more economical plan of getting the pollen carried from. 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. New York, D. Appleton and company
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