80 PKOSERPINA. 



and throw themselves wider at last into their perfect 

 rose. But they never leave their old nursery for all that ; 

 it and they live on together ; and the nursery seems a part 

 of the flower. 



21. Which is so, indeed, in all the loveliest flowers ; 

 and, in usual botanical parlance, a flower is said to consist 

 of its calyx, (or hiding part Calypso having rule over 



FIG. 7. 



it,) and corolla, or garland part, Proserpina having rule 

 over it. But it is better to think of them always as sepa- 

 rate ; for this calyx, very justly so named from its main 

 function of concealing the flower, in its youth is usually 

 green, not coloured, and shows its separate nature by paus- 

 ing, or at least greatly lingering, in its growth, and modi- 

 fying itself very slightly, while the corolla is forming 



