THE FLOWER 



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XIX.— THE FLOWEE.— Part V. 



Regulab and Ireegulae Flowbes. 



1. Tubular flowers. In our scarlet geranium we 

 found that the petals could be pulled 

 off one by one In many flowers 

 like the plumbago and honey- 

 suckle the petals are all joined 

 together in a tube; and we shall 

 call such flowers tubular flowers. 



2 Regular andirregular flowers. 



In our geranium the petals are 



not all alike, but the difference 



between one petal and another 



is so little that few people know 



that the petals differ at all. But in 



some of the tubular flowers, like the 



snapdragon or the larkspur or the 



salvia, the tube of petals is so irregular 



that everyone notices it. Well, we 



shall call such flowers irregular to 



distinguish them from flowers like the 



lif poppy or the Canterbury bell which 



„ , ^ are regular all round the corolla. 



Regular flower. ° 



3. We saw that the petals of the scarlet geranium 

 are built to suit the visiting insect ; and no doubt 

 you have already guessed that the strange looking 

 petals of irregular flowers are all planned for the same 

 purpose. We saw that the front petal of the geranium 

 on which the insect alights has become larger and 



