/ he Daisy's Pedigree. 



stamens and pistil on the way down. In pinks and 

 their alHes we see some rude approach to this mode 

 of growth ; for there each petal has a long claw (as it 

 is called), bearing the expanded part at the end ; and 

 these claws when firmly pressed together by the calyx 

 practically form a tube in five pieces : but in the per- 



FlG. g. — Corolla of P;imrose. 



Fig. io. — Corolla of Harebell 



fectly tubular flowers, like the primrose, the arrange- 

 ment is carried a great deal further ; for there we 

 have the claws all grown into a single piece, with the 

 expanded petals forming a continuous fringe of five 

 deeply cleft lobes, representing the five original and 

 separate pieces of the pinks.' Now, in the primrose, 

 again, we still find the five petals quite distinct at the 



' Of course I <to not mean to imply that daisies or primroses are 

 descended from pinks ; that would convey a wholly mistaken notion ; 

 but merely that the ancestors of the daisy once passed through a some- 

 what analogous stage. 



