Elementary botany . Fig. 46sFlower of cytisus grown in conservatory. Same flower scattering poller. to various sorts of stimuli. No plant has puzzled me so much in this respectas the canna, and any one will be well repaid for a study of recently openedflowers, even though it may be necessary to rise early in the morning tounravel the mystery, before bees or the wind have irritated the canna flower is a bewildering maze of petals and petal-like members. 446 RELATION TO ENVIRONMENT. The calyx is green, adherent to the ovary, and the limb divides into three,lanceolate lobes. The peta
Elementary botany . Fig. 46sFlower of cytisus grown in conservatory. Same flower scattering poller. to various sorts of stimuli. No plant has puzzled me so much in this respectas the canna, and any one will be well repaid for a study of recently openedflowers, even though it may be necessary to rise early in the morning tounravel the mystery, before bees or the wind have irritated the canna flower is a bewildering maze of petals and petal-like members. 446 RELATION TO ENVIRONMENT. The calyx is green, adherent to the ovary, and the limb divides into three,lanceolate lobes. The petals are obovate and spreading, while the stamenshave all changed to petal-like members, called staminodia. Only one stillshows its stamen origin, since the anther is seen at one side, while the fila-ment is expanded laterally and upwards to form the staminodium.
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