. Plant life [microform]. Botany; Botanique. HCW PLOWBRB CLUB TOGETHER. 163 closer into it you will see it is really a great group of flowers—a compound flower-head, com- posed of many dozen dietinct blossoms or florets, as we call them (Fig. 33). These, however, are not all alike. The florets in the centre, which you took no doubt at first sight for the stamens and pistils, are small yellow tubular blossoms, each with a combined corolla of five lobes, little or no visible calyx, five stamens united in a ring round the style, and a pistil consisting of an in- ferior ovary, with a style divided
. Plant life [microform]. Botany; Botanique. HCW PLOWBRB CLUB TOGETHER. 163 closer into it you will see it is really a great group of flowers—a compound flower-head, com- posed of many dozen dietinct blossoms or florets, as we call them (Fig. 33). These, however, are not all alike. The florets in the centre, which you took no doubt at first sight for the stamens and pistils, are small yellow tubular blossoms, each with a combined corolla of five lobes, little or no visible calyx, five stamens united in a ring round the style, and a pistil consisting of an in- ferior ovary, with a style divided above into a two- fold stigma (Fig. 34). Here we have clear evidence that the plant belon'gs by origin to the five-petalled group; it rather resembles the harebell, in the plan of its flower, on a much smaller scale; but it has almost lost all trace of a separate calyx, it has its five petals united into a tiq. 35.—single plorbt tubular corolla, it has still its original five stamens, bvtt its carpels are now reduced to one, with a single seed, though traces of an earlier inter- mediate stage, when the carpels were two, remains even yet in the divided stigma. So much for the inner flowers or florets in the daisy. The outer ones, which you took at first. FROM THE RAY OF A DAISY, PINK AND WHITE, WITH AN OVARY, BUT NO STA- 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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