CHAPTER XV: 
DEAD-NETTLES, SPEEDWELLS, GENTIANS, 
AND PRIMROSES 
In this and the succeeding chapters we find ourselves 
embarrassed with our over-richness, for we shall have 
to include in them many hundreds of different plants, 
each with its separate point of interest, but none of 
them so absolutely typical that in describing it we can 
give the characteristics of the whole group. The four 
that I have chosen to head the chapter will give a 
sufficient idea of the plentiful variety of beauty that 
lies before us here. 
All these. plants, however, and many others to which 
I shall have to allude in passing, are marked by certain 
points in the flower, which you should seek for in any 
new discovery, in order that you may at least know in 
what general direction to look for a knowledge of its 
- complete history. You will remember that in the last 
chapter we had to deal with the group which contented 
itself with but one ring of leaves around the pistil and _ 
stamens, and that this ring was generally of a sober green. 
The rest of our flowering plants, with a few scattered 
exceptions, such as the Globe Flower, which we may 
disregard for the present, have developed and retain a 
double overcoat, our true calyx and corolla. In this 
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