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CHAPTER X. 



FOEMS OF COEOLLAS VISCACE^E CAPEIFOLIACE^]- 

 EUBIACE^ VALEEIANlCEJS DIPSACACEJ3. 



" Flowers image forth the boundless love 



God bears His children all, 

 Which ever droppeth from above 



Upon the great and small. 

 Each blossom that adorns our path, 



So joyful and so fair, 

 Is but a drop of love divine 

 That fell and flourished there! " 



ILIMON. 



WE have now gone through the Receptacle and Calyx sub- 

 classes, and are come to that of the COEOLLIFLOBALS, where 

 the corolla is no longer formed of separate petals, but is all in 

 one piece, or monopetalous. There are a variety of forms both 

 amongst one-petalled and many-petalled corollas. The Rose- 

 shape is one of the most familiar among the polypetalous 

 flowers, with its five slightly-cupped petals (Plate VII. , fig. 6). 

 The Cruciform is equally well known, having only four petals 

 arranged in the form of a cross (Plate III-). The Lily-shape 

 is difficult to meet with among our wild flowers ; the Wild 

 Tulip and Wild Hyacinth are approaches to it (Plate XVI.}. 

 Of the spurred form we have examples in the Violet (Plate IV., 

 fig. 3), Monkshood and Columbine (Plate I.yfigs. 9 and 10) ; 

 and the butterfly-shaped, or papilionaceous, with its raised 

 standard, spread wings, and curved keel, needs no description 

 (Plate VI.}. 



The one-petalled corolla, which constitutes our present order, 

 and has the stamens fastened to it, is susceptible also of several 

 forms. The Speedwell (Plate XIII., fig. 6), Elder, Gueldres 

 Eose (Plate X.,fig. 2), and Yellow Bedstraw (Plate X.,fig. 6), 

 are examples of the wheel-shaped ; the Campanula (Plate XII., 



