. Flowers and their pedigrees [microform]. Flowers; Flowers; Fleurs; Fleurs. Cleavers. \u. Fic;. 27. the ancestors of the ^oosc-grass had the same sort of flowers when they were at the same or : me . nalog(»uj* stage of development. Moreover, amongst the stellate plants themselves there are several which still retain the long tubes to the blossom ; and these are rather the less developed than the more developed members of the little group. Such are the pretty blue field-madder, which has a funnel-shaped corolla, and the sweet woodruff, which has bell-shaped flowers. But the ga- liums, which a
. Flowers and their pedigrees [microform]. Flowers; Flowers; Fleurs; Fleurs. Cleavers. \u. Fic;. 27. the ancestors of the ^oosc-grass had the same sort of flowers when they were at the same or : me . nalog(»uj* stage of development. Moreover, amongst the stellate plants themselves there are several which still retain the long tubes to the blossom ; and these are rather the less developed than the more developed members of the little group. Such are the pretty blue field-madder, which has a funnel-shaped corolla, and the sweet woodruff, which has bell-shaped flowers. But the ga- liums, which are the most advanced (or degraded) species of all, have the tube y\^^^^ of pieui- very short or hardly perceptible, and ^'^'^ '^'^' the more so in proportion as they are most widely divergent from the primitive type. Why, however, should a flower which was once tubular have lost its tube} If it was an advantage to acquire such a long narrow throat, must it not also be an advantage always to retain it .'* That depends entirely upon the nature of the circumstances to which the plant must adapt itself. Now the fact is, the original madder group seems to have had large and showy flowers, which were fertilised by regular honey- sucking insects, such as bees and butterflies and hum- ming-bird hawk-moths. These are tropical shrubs, i* â â \ Mi 'i w. 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 : Longmans, Green
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