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a narrow tube, from which it diverges at right angles, like the salver rep- 



resented in old pictures, with a slender 

 handle beneath, Tig. 249-251, 255. 



Bell-shaped, or Campanulate ; where 

 a short and broad tube widens upward, 

 in the shape of a bell, as in Fig. 254. 



Funnel-shaped, or Funnel-form ; grad- 

 ually spreading at the summit of a tube which is narrow below, in the 



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shape of a funnel or tunnel, as in the corolla of the common Morning 

 Glory (Fig. 247) and of the Stramonium (Fig. 246). 



FiQ. 248. Polypetalous corolla of Soapwort, of five petals with long claws* or 

 stalk-like bases. 



FIG. 249. Flower of Standing Cypress (Gilia coronopifolia) ; gamopetalous: the 

 tube answering to the long claws in 248, except that they are coalescent : the limb 

 or border (the spreading part above) is five-parted, that is, the petals not there 

 united except at very base. 



Fia. 250. Flower of Cypress- vine (Ipomoea Quamoclit); like preceding, but limb 

 iwe-lobed. 



FIG. 251. Flower of Ipomoea coccinea; limb almost entire. 



FIG. 252. Wheel-shaped or rotate and five-parted corolla of Bittersweet, Solanum 

 Dulcamara. 253. Wheel-shaped and five-lobed corolla of Potato. 



FIG. 254, Flower of a Campanula or Harebell, with a campanulate or bell-shaped 

 corolla; 255, of a Phlox, with salver-shaped corolla ; 256, of Dead-Nettie (Larnium), 

 with labiate ringent (or gaping) corolla; 257, of Snapdragon, with labiate person- 

 ate corolla ; 258, of Toad-Flax, with a similar corolla spurred at the base. 



