5G MEMBERS OF PLANTS. 



In most flowers, however, the blossom is the part 

 which is commonly some other colour than green, and 

 in different species is exceedingly varied in form ; but 

 it will be less necessary to describe these minutely, as 

 the same terms, in most instances, apply to them as 

 those already mentioned which apply to the flower-cup. 

 The leaves into which the blossom may be divided, are 

 termed petals 1 , the base being termed the claw 2 , and 

 the rest the limb 3 . With respect to indentations and 

 divisions, the same terms are applicable as to the leaves. 



When the blossom consists of only one petal 4 , falling 

 off when about to wither in a single piece, it maybe, as 

 to form, either regular or irregular. 



The regular one-petaled blossom may be tubular 5 , 

 when the opening is called the throat 6 , as in the lilac 

 and primrose; bell-shaped 7 , as in Canterbury bells 

 and rampion; funnel-shaped 8 , as in tobacco; salver- 

 shaped 9 , as in jasmine; wheel-shaped 10 , as in borage 

 and potato; star-shaped 11 , as in ladies' bed-straw; 

 pitcher-shaped 12 , as in many heaths; egg oblong, as in 

 the strawberry tree, and some heaths ; globular, as in 

 some Andromedas ; goblet-shaped, as in comfrey ; and 

 club-shaped, as in pine heath, and some other species. 



(1) In Latin, Petala. 

 (2) In Latin, Unguis. (3) In Latin, Lamina or Limbus. 



(4) In Latin, Corolla monupetala or gamopetala. 



(5) In Latin, Tubularis. (6) In Latin, Faux. 



(7) In Latin, Campanulata. (8) In Latin, Infundibiliformis. 



(9) In Latin, Hypocrateriformis. 



(10) In Latin, Rotata. (11) In Latin, Stellata. 



(12) In Latin, Urceolata. 



