Wild flowers as they grow, photographed in colour direct from nature . d 0 a, outer empty floret, b, inner fertile floret, c, stamens (beads joined,filaments distinct), d, stigma, style, ovary. in its life and in its death ; that is the epitome of the Cornflowers character. In olden days it was known under yet another aspect to the physician, for there is not any part of the herb but it rather worketh miracles than ordinary cures in green 176. CORNFLOWER The Cornflower wounds, asserted Gerard, and other physicians ofthe sixteenth and seventeenth centuries confirmhim and, moreover, add other vi
Wild flowers as they grow, photographed in colour direct from nature . d 0 a, outer empty floret, b, inner fertile floret, c, stamens (beads joined,filaments distinct), d, stigma, style, ovary. in its life and in its death ; that is the epitome of the Cornflowers character. In olden days it was known under yet another aspect to the physician, for there is not any part of the herb but it rather worketh miracles than ordinary cures in green 176. CORNFLOWER The Cornflower wounds, asserted Gerard, and other physicians ofthe sixteenth and seventeenth centuries confirmhim and, moreover, add other virtues. Its blueness has given it many a country name,such as Blue-cap, Blue-bonnet, Blueball, Blueblaw, Blue Poppy (from growing withthe red poppies among the corn), and, commonestof all, Blue-bottle, from the shape of its flower-heads. The purity of its colour, as well shown inour photograph, has raised it to the dignity ofbeing a standard, and nowadays one speaks of cornflower-blue to describe a special tint. The plant grows about two feet high, and iswell-known as a somewhat tiresome cornfield lower leaves are long and often deeply lobed,but the upper ones are narrow and quite plain inoutline. The blooms grow solitary and of necessityupon long stalks to raise them among the stalks, as also those of the leaves, are parti-cularly hard and tough, and Hable to injure the sickle cutting the com. Hence, another of its73
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