. Flowers and their pedigrees [microform]. Flowers; Flowers; Fleurs; Fleurs. Cuckoo-Pint. 245 ike on; ree- itcp, such Drcts of a thout very on by iition; ;urviv- :he in- wbich semble ints we ct and iperfect of our observe e direc- d wheat :htothe ind their If degra- Ihe other \ case shows it as it takes place in the moist and rich mould of watery ditches. Look first at the curious flower which is represented for us here in the little sketch at the side. In the slow rivers of Suffolk, and along the shallow edges of the Norfolk broads, there grows a pretty spiky water-plant, known by the scienti
. Flowers and their pedigrees [microform]. Flowers; Flowers; Fleurs; Fleurs. Cuckoo-Pint. 245 ike on; ree- itcp, such Drcts of a thout very on by iition; ;urviv- :he in- wbich semble ints we ct and iperfect of our observe e direc- d wheat :htothe ind their If degra- Ihe other \ case shows it as it takes place in the moist and rich mould of watery ditches. Look first at the curious flower which is represented for us here in the little sketch at the side. In the slow rivers of Suffolk, and along the shallow edges of the Norfolk broads, there grows a pretty spiky water-plant, known by the scientific name of Acorus, or by the simpler English titles of sweet-flag and sweet-sedge. This acorus is a highly aromatic reed-like plant, with long lance-shaped leaves, and a dense spike of small yellowish-green blossoms, standing out in a cylindrical form from the thick rod which does duty for its stem. At first sight you would not say that these flowers differed very much from those of ^ Fig. 52.—Single flower the arum : they look pretty much of Sweet-sedge. the same sort of small unnoticeablc green knobs to a casual observer. But when one comes to pick out one of them from the close mass, and to examine it with a common pocket lens, one can see at once that, though very much reduced in size and colour, it is still at bottom essentially a lily flower. In the diagram we have one of these small blossoms con- siderably enlarged, and it is easy to see that it possesses all the various parts which characterise the true lilies. There are six petals, clearly enough,. 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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