. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. 6t GAEDEX FLOWERS. teecis on and so venders the groiuul barren, is a quite ebavacteristic memlier of the yreat order Convolvukieea;, ])rodueing minute Howers of great beauty of a true con- volvulus shape. A i)roniinent characteristic of the order is the jiroduction of an imbricated calyx, two of the sepals being quite exterior to the other three. But a still more remarkable convolvulus is the East Indian plant called Ncnrojji'llis ruceiiiosa, the flowers of which are produced in the centre of bracteal leaves, a
. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. 6t GAEDEX FLOWERS. teecis on and so venders the groiuul barren, is a quite ebavacteristic memlier of the yreat order Convolvukieea;, ])rodueing minute Howers of great beauty of a true con- volvulus shape. A i)roniinent characteristic of the order is the jiroduction of an imbricated calyx, two of the sepals being quite exterior to the other three. But a still more remarkable convolvulus is the East Indian plant called Ncnrojji'llis ruceiiiosa, the flowers of which are produced in the centre of bracteal leaves, as though a flower should grow out of the j^alm of one's hand, or as tiny clusters of leaves occasionally appear in the very centre of large cabbage-leaves. In this the imbi'icated arrangemeut of the calyx, is found to afford a trustworthy family 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 Hibberd, Shirley, 1825-1890; Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward), 1841-1909. London : Cassell
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