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ever had .such, that yellow flowers are confined to simple or 

 primitive types. We think, however, that the general list 

 of Orders above given will be ample evidence as to where 

 these species are to be found. 



White is designated as a low or i)rimary color, yet as in 

 the case of yellow, it is found all through the tioral world : 

 Viburnum, Cornia^, Androuieda, Saxifraga, Arenaria, 

 Cratcegits, Capsicwn, Clevodendron, Umhelliferm, the mag- 

 nificent Easter Lily, trumpet-shaped, nine inches in length, 

 Pancrathun, Convalktria, Nijutpliam, Yucca, Gordonia, 

 Slnarlia, Camellia, Exocliorda, etc., magnificent Orchids 

 and Chi-ysanthemums, etc., etc. I 



We think that enough has been said to make it perfectly 

 clear that the statement: "that almost all the members of 

 the most advanced families are i)urple or blue," is very 

 inexact. 



COLOR STUDIES. 



CHAPTER yil. 



Myosotis, Forget-me-not, presents a succession of four 

 colors. The stamens and eye arc yellow ; the five minute 

 rays extending from the eye and completing the star-like 

 centre are white ; the corolla, at first a clear pink, changes 

 gradually to deep blue. The order is yellow, white, pink, 

 blue ; but if one examines a bed of Myosotis critically he is 

 likely to notice exceptions to this se(iuence. 



The yellow anther never becomes white, but changes di- 

 rectly to brown ! The nectary changes to white only ; not 

 unconnnonly an entire plant bears pink flowers, changing if 

 at all to white ; and such flowers as do become blue are 

 apt to change again, but to white also. 



