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from pure disuse. The development of the hood, and 

 the lengthening of the upper petals, would easily 

 follow by insect selection. It is a significant fact that 

 our only other spiked buttercup, the larkspur, has 

 equally irregular and bilateral flowers, though its 

 honey is concealed in a long spur formed by the petals, 

 and accessible to but one English insect, the humble 

 bee. 



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WYMAN AND SONS, PRINTERS, GREAT QUEEN STREET, LONDON. 



