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times very singular. See these figures. Fig. 114 is the 
form of the bifid petal of a Cerastium; Fig. 115, the flower 
of Mitella, with five pinnatifid petals; Fig. 117, the flower 
of Sweet Cicely, with five petals inflected at the point; Fig. 
116, fringed, long-clawed petal of Silene stellaria; Fig. 118, 
many-cleft petal of Mignonette; Fig. 119, rounded, short- 
clawed petal of Crowfoot, showing its honey scale, or nec- 
tary, at base. 
Fig. 120. Larkspur, its petals and sepals separated: 3, 3, 8, , 8, sepals; a, the 
upper sepal spurred; ¢, the petals all united into one, and produced backwards into 
a spur which is sheathed in the spur of the calyx. 
Fig. 121. Touch-me-not. Fig. 122. Its petals and sepals displayed: p, p, the two 
double petals; s, 8, s, y, the four sepals, y being in the form of a sack, with a spur. 
78. A nectary is found also in the petals of Columbine 
(Fig. 361), Larkspur (Fig. 120), Touch-me-not (Fig. 121), &., 
distorting them into grotesque shapes, called spurs. 
74. Before us now is the flower of Pink (Fig. 123). The 
calyx (¢) appears as a green tube, with five notches or teeth 
at the top. It is evident that this is made up of five sepals 
73, What is a nectary? Whatisaspur? Examples. 
