CONTENTS 



PAGES 



— An Uneventful Career — Simple Leaves — Primitive Sim- 

 plicity Revealed by Flowers — Monocotyledons and Dico- 

 tyledons — Primitive Form retained owing to Lack of 

 Competition i6o — 165 



CHAPTER XV 



- THE DAFFODIL {Narcissus Pseudo-narcissus) 



Threefold Flowers— Daffodils and Lilies — Superior or Inferior 

 Ovary — Advanced Groups of Lilies — Complex Lily Types 

 — Bilateral Flowers — The Crown, or Entrance Tube — 

 Stigma and the Bee — Origin of the Crown — The Pink 

 Family — Nature and Successful Devices . . . 166 — 171 



CHAPTER XVI 



BUTTERCUP EVOLUTION 



Buttercups and English Landscape — Pedigree Buttercups — 

 Bulbous Buttercup— Meadow Buttercup — Difference in 

 Height — Variety in Species — Water Buttercup — Adapta- 

 tion to Aquatic Surroundings — Aquatic and Aerial Leaves 

 — A Unique Water Plant — Colour of Petals — Hairs — 

 Typical Buttercup — Coloured Calyx — Nectaries of Helle- 

 bore and Globe-flower — Anemone and Clematis — Honey- 

 less Flowers Rich in Pollen — Marsh Marigold — Honey 

 amongst the Carpels — Lesser Meadow Rue and Wind- 

 fertilisation — Aristocrats of the Family — The Columbine — 

 The Larkspurs — Fertilisation — Monkshood — The Special- 

 ised Nectaries — Insects' Unconscious Agency — Complex 

 Forms 172—185 



CHAPTER XVII 



SOME FLORAL ADVERTISEMENTS 



The Foxglove at Home — The Difficulty Overcome —Competi- 

 tion in the Plant World — A Huge Advertisement de- 

 signed exclusively for Humble-bees — Honeysuckle — Hawk- 



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