. Plant life [microform]. Botany; Botanique. I / •, HOV PLANTS MARRY. 79 pln:i{,fj —t^e chapter which tells us how they tn^rv'ind are given in marriage. 'er that you may fully understand this curio. irid delightful subject, however, I shall h.«V" begin by telling you a few preUminary po. .-o iess interesting in themselves, and, I fear, at times not a lituo troublesome. Flowers are the husbands and wives oi plants. And in some plants the sexes are as fully sepa- rate'! as in birds or beasts; when once you know them, you can distinguish at sight a male from a female flower as readily as you
. Plant life [microform]. Botany; Botanique. I / •, HOV PLANTS MARRY. 79 pln:i{,fj —t^e chapter which tells us how they tn^rv'ind are given in marriage. 'er that you may fully understand this curio. irid delightful subject, however, I shall h.«V" begin by telling you a few preUminary po. .-o iess interesting in themselves, and, I fear, at times not a lituo troublesome. Flowers are the husbands and wives oi plants. And in some plants the sexes are as fully sepa- rate'! as in birds or beasts; when once you know them, you can distinguish at sight a male from a female flower as readily as you can dis- ^ tinguish a bull 'lo- 13.—a, male, & b, female floweb from a cow or °^ ^ sedoe, much magnified. The a peacock f^om Se.*'" ^"^ "^""^^ ^'*'°'' '"''^ a peahen (Fig. 13). But in other cases the sexes are muddled up in the same blossom or on the same plant in a way that makes it rather difficult to understand their true nature without a Httle pains and some close attention. So we must go back a bit for light to the lower plants. Here we find no flowers at all, and in the very lowest cases of any nothing in the least resembling a blossom. Very simple plants, in fact, have two ways of 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. London : Hodder and Stoughton
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