Plants and their ways in South Africa . Fig. 139.—MicranthusfistulostisEckl. A scape bearing aspike of Fig. 140.—Raceme of Cyanellacapensis L. back of the flower. The spur is joined to the stalk. It canbe located by cutting the stalk just below the flower. The calyx tube catches honey. If the calyx tube is at-tached to the ovary, the gland is borne at the top of the ovary,as in the Carrot family and Mesembrianthemum. There are many devices which conceal honey, thewide bases of the filament of Roella roof over the honey in Flowers and their Parts 145 the base of the corolla tube
Plants and their ways in South Africa . Fig. 139.—MicranthusfistulostisEckl. A scape bearing aspike of Fig. 140.—Raceme of Cyanellacapensis L. back of the flower. The spur is joined to the stalk. It canbe located by cutting the stalk just below the flower. The calyx tube catches honey. If the calyx tube is at-tached to the ovary, the gland is borne at the top of the ovary,as in the Carrot family and Mesembrianthemum. There are many devices which conceal honey, thewide bases of the filament of Roella roof over the honey in Flowers and their Parts 145 the base of the corolla tube so that it can be obtained onlythrough narrow slits. The downward hanging hairs in Micro-loma are said to guard against flies. Arrangement of Flowers on the Stalk.—Antho-taxy (or inflorescence) is a term applied to the arrangementof flowers as phyllotaxy applies to leaf arrangement. Some ofour large flowers, as Hypoxisstellata Linn. (PeacocksEyes) are borne singly onthe end of the flower , as Malvastrum andHermannia, are borne singlyin the axils of the leaves ;the main stem can thencontinue
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