. Canadian wild flowers [microform]. Wild flowers; Fleurs sauvages. WIIITM TKILLIL'M. 28 I f line uliilt' llial nl' the While .species is liiiuht oiaimc-yellow. The lenses aro of a dark lurid ^reeii. liw e(»loiiriii«;- ii»al(« r oC the petals seeiiis to pervade llu" leaves; and Ihtc. let me ohseive, that the saiiH' remark may Ite made of many oilier plants. In purple (lowers we ol'len perceive the violet hue to l»e perceptible in the stalk and under part of the leaves, and .sometimes in the veins ami roots, lied llowers a^iaiii >how the ^alne teii early slaue of-rowtli shews the (Man-'
. Canadian wild flowers [microform]. Wild flowers; Fleurs sauvages. WIIITM TKILLIL'M. 28 I f line uliilt' llial nl' the While .species is liiiuht oiaimc-yellow. The lenses aro of a dark lurid ^reeii. liw e(»loiiriii«;- ii»al(« r oC the petals seeiiis to pervade llu" leaves; and Ihtc. let me ohseive, that the saiiH' remark may Ite made of many oilier plants. In purple (lowers we ol'len perceive the violet hue to l»e perceptible in the stalk and under part of the leaves, and .sometimes in the veins ami roots, lied llowers a^iaiii >how the ^alne teii early slaue of-rowtli shews the (Man-'e jiii,.,- ill the >tem and leaves, so docs the Canadian 15al>am and manv others; that, a little observation will point out. The colonrin-;' mailer of llowers has always Imm'Ii, more or le». a my>tery to ns; that liuht is one of the ureal a-enis can hardly for a moment be doubted, but xUMcihini;- also may depend upon the peculiar ,nullity (.f the .juices that Mil the tissues of the llowt-r, and on the cellular li>>ue itself. Flowers deprived of liiA'ht. we know, arc pallid an<l often colourless, but how do we accoimt for the deep crimson of the beel-rool, the rose-red of the radish, the oran,-o of the rhubarb, carrot, and turni|», which roots, beini;' burled in the earth, are not sid»ject to the solar rays? The natural suiti»osltion would be that all roots hidden from the light would be white, but this is by no means the case. The (piestion is «Mie of much interest, and deserves the attention of all naturalists, and especially of the botanical 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 Traill, Catherine Parr Strickland, 1802-1899; Chamberlin, Agnes D. , 1833-1913. Montreal : J. Lovell
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