. Flowers and their pedigrees. Botany. The Daisy's Pedigree. able erudition, every time they open their mouths, they imagine that everybody else must be ignorant of anything which he doesn't expressly state ; as though you might never talk of a railway journey without giving at full the theory of kinetic energy as applied to the coal in the furnace. F"or their sake, then, I must add that, when the daisy's ancestors had reached a level of development equivalent to that of the heath and the Canterbury bell, they differed in orie respect from them just as the primrose still does. In the heat
. Flowers and their pedigrees. Botany. The Daisy's Pedigree. able erudition, every time they open their mouths, they imagine that everybody else must be ignorant of anything which he doesn't expressly state ; as though you might never talk of a railway journey without giving at full the theory of kinetic energy as applied to the coal in the furnace. F"or their sake, then, I must add that, when the daisy's ancestors had reached a level of development equivalent to that of the heath and the Canterbury bell, they differed in orie respect from them just as the primrose still does. In the heath and the harebell, the stamens remain quite separate from the tube formed by the petals ; but in the primrose and the daisy the stalks of the stamens (filaments, the technical botanists call them) have coalesced with the petals, so that the pollen seems to hang out in little bags from the walls of the tube itself. This is a further advance in the direction of specialised arrangements for insect-fertilisation; and it shows very simply the sort of cross- ^ . ^'°;"- ^â â ' 'â â ' Section of floret of Daisy. connections which we often get among plants or animals. For while the daisy is more like the Canterbury bell in the shape of its corolla, it is more like the primrose in the arrange-. 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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