The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . A FLOWER. Section through the centre of the terminal flower ; oi:e of Iheside branches beariDg the chickens is shown springingfrom the axil of a leaf, below the terminal flower. which the astronomer observed, especially the twolast-named, which have poisonous qualities attri-buted to them. S. P. Oliver. (To be continued.) According to M. Ernst Benary, of Erfurt, who sentit out in 1886, and who has obligingly supplied uswith information concerning it, it was raised inGermany, and is presumed to have sp
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . A FLOWER. Section through the centre of the terminal flower ; oi:e of Iheside branches beariDg the chickens is shown springingfrom the axil of a leaf, below the terminal flower. which the astronomer observed, especially the twolast-named, which have poisonous qualities attri-buted to them. S. P. Oliver. (To be continued.) According to M. Ernst Benary, of Erfurt, who sentit out in 1886, and who has obligingly supplied uswith information concerning it, it was raised inGermany, and is presumed to have sprung fromM. alpestris robusta grandiflora (Eliza Fonrobert), a MYOSOTIS VICTORIA. The Hen and Chickens Forget-me-Not, ofwhich we give illustrations, is of special interest justnow when the question of the inheritance, or other-wise, of mallormations is attracting so much atten-tion among scientists. Its history is also curious. * This is the flower, white as a Lily, and like a Jessamine,?which Professor Balfour supposes to have been some kind ofOrchid, which ha? probably become Fig. 1 HEN AND CHICKENS ME VICTORIA. eight, nine, or ten sepals, as many petals, stamens,and ovary-lobes, the styles of which latter are unitedso as to form a tube through which passes anabortive and rudimentary secondary flower (medianprolilication). It would thus appear as if each othe lateral parts of the flower were divided by lateralbranching, or chorisis, so that the number ofparts in each floral ring or whorl is increased, whilethe whorls themselves are not augmented. In the accompanying figures, fig. 19 shows theextreme tip of one of the branches. In it thehen-and-chicken arrangement is well shown, the hen being represented by the central or terminalcompound flower, from beneath whose shelteringprotection emerge the side branches with the chickens, or lateral flowers, each with their tensegments. Fig. 20 is an enlarged vertical section through thecentral flower,
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