. Elementary botany. Botany. CHAPTER XXXVII. MONOCOTYLEDONS. Topic I: Monocotyledons with conspicuous petals (Petaloideae). Lesson I. Lily Family (Liuaceje). CLASSIFICATION. 486. Species.âIt is not necessary for one to be a botanist in order to recognize, during a stroll in the woods where the tril- lium is flowering, that there are many individual plants very like each other. They may vary in size, and the parts may differ a little in form. '\\'hen the flowers first open they are usually white, and in age they generally become pinkish. In some in- dividuals they are pinkish when they first op
. Elementary botany. Botany. CHAPTER XXXVII. MONOCOTYLEDONS. Topic I: Monocotyledons with conspicuous petals (Petaloideae). Lesson I. Lily Family (Liuaceje). CLASSIFICATION. 486. Species.âIt is not necessary for one to be a botanist in order to recognize, during a stroll in the woods where the tril- lium is flowering, that there are many individual plants very like each other. They may vary in size, and the parts may differ a little in form. '\\'hen the flowers first open they are usually white, and in age they generally become pinkish. In some in- dividuals they are pinkish when they first open. Even with these variations, which are trifling in comparison with the points of close agreement, we recog- nize the individuals to be of the same kind, just as we recognize the corn plants grown from the seed of an ear of â -' corn as of the same kind. Individuals of the same kind, in this sense, form a species. is a Trillium erec- tum (purple form), two plants from one root-stock. The white wake-robin, then,. 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 Atkinson, George Francis, 1854-1918. New York, H. Holt
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