THE PLAN OF THE FLOWER. 



276 277 



276, Flower of Aurantium Limeta (Lime-tree) ; sta- 

 mens in five sets. 277, One of the sets. 278, Flower of 

 Hypericum JSgypticum ; stamens in three sets. 279, 

 Flower of Tecoma radicans ; petals cohering into a tube, free only at top. Sepals also coherent. 



nectary was indiscriminately applied to all such organs, because some 

 of them produced honey. 



434. SPURS are singular processes of the flower, tubular and pro- 

 jecting from behind it. In columbine each petal is thus spurred ; in 

 violet, one petal only, In larkspur, a petal and a sepal, the spur of the 

 latter inclosing that of the former. The curved spur of the jewel-weed 

 belongs to a sepal. (280, 281.) 



435. SCALES are attached to the inner side of the corolla, usually 

 upon the claw of the petals, as in butter-cups, or within the throat of 

 the corolla tube, as in the Borrageworts. Similar appendages, when 

 enlarged and conspicuous, constitute a crown in catchflv, corn-cockle 

 The flowers of Narcissus are distinguished by an excessively large crown 

 ox corona, with its parts all blended into a tube or rim. 



Flower of Delphinium Consolida (common larkspur), displaying, , , s, s, s, the five sepals, 

 , the upper one spurred ; c, the corolla of four petals here united into one and produced into a 

 spur. 281, Flower of Impatiens fulva (touch-me-not). 232, Displaying, S, , s, y, the four se- 

 pals, S, the anterior one, being probably double, and y, saccate and spurred ; p. p. the two petal:-, 

 both double. 



