Riddles in Flowers 
INDEED, are they not all rid- 
1 dies? Where is the flower which 
even to the most devoted of us has 
yet confided all its mysteries ? 
In comparison with the insight 
of the earlier botanists, we have 
surely come much closer to the 
flowers, and they have im- 
parted many of their se- 
crets to us. Through the inspired 
vision of Sprengel, Darwin, and 
their followers we have learned 
something of their meaning, in 
addition to the knowledge of their 
structure, which comprised the end 
and aim of the study of those early 
scholars, Linnaeus, Lindley, Jussieu, and De Can- 
dolle. To these and other eminent worthies 
in botany we owe much of our knowledge of 
how the flowers are made, and of the classifi- 
cation based upon this structure, but if these 
