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stamens and pistil on the way down. In pinks and 

 their aUics wc see some nidc approach to this mode 

 of growth ; for there each petal has a long claw (as it 

 is called), bearing the expanded part at the end ; and 

 these claws when firmly pressed together by the calyx 

 practically form a tube in five pieces : but in the per- 



FiG. 9. — Corolla of Primrose. 



Fig. id. — Corolla of Harebell 



fectly tubular flowers, like tlie primrose, the arrange- 

 ment is carried a great deal further ; for there we 

 have the claws all grown into a single piece, with the 

 expanded petals forming a continuous fringe of five 

 deeply cleft lobes, representing the five original and 

 separate pieces of the pinks.* Now, in the primrose, 

 again, we still find the five petals quite distinct at the 



' Of course I do not mean to imply that daisies or primroses are 

 descended from pinks ; that would convey a wholly mistaken notion ; 

 tut merely that the ancestors of the daisy once passed through a some- 

 what analogous stage. 



