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the four stamens 

 are much more 

 evident. Quaker 

 ladies, in truth, 

 are the first, wliile 

 the latter might 

 be called Quakei 



Quaker Ladies : These pretty little flowers, also 

 called bluets, innocence, blue-eyed babies, bright eyes, 

 are always great favorites with children. 



It will be noticed that the larger flowers have in 

 the cup an obviously two-branched stigma, while in 

 the smaller flower „ 



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kei- <*<N U' 

 gentlemen, for the ^^ 1 



long-styled flowers only \\ 

 set seed when fertilized U 

 by the pollen from the ^, 

 long stamens. / 



The Cherry has been 

 sufficiently described on ^ ' ^"^ ^'^ 



^ _„ Flower with loner pistil: flower with short 



Hepatic A : This is one of the earliest and most at- 

 tractive of the spring flowers. The furry flower buds 

 open before the leaves, although there are always num- 

 bers of last year's leaves to be found. The colors of the 

 flowers vary greatly, and in accordance, mostly, with 

 their situation with reference to the sunlight, although it 

 is by no means uncommon to find pink, blue, and white 

 flowers on the same plant. Strictly speaking, there is 

 no corolla, the calyx taking its place, while what seems 

 to be a calyx, the three leaves at the base of the flowers, 

 is really an involucre. 



