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campanula tribe, and you easily make out that 

 the same floral structure which, has grouped our 

 Handful prevails with them ; the stamens, however, 

 are not attached to the corolla, and the stigma is 

 lobed. 



In the lesson which we appended to Handful 11., 

 we endeavoured to give you some idea of the parts 

 of a perfect flower, their uses and arrangement ; we 

 have now to go a step further, and Say somewhat of 

 the methods according to which flowers are arranged 

 upon the plants which bear them. Perhaps it never 

 occurred to many of our noviciate readers that flowers 

 are arranged upon their stems in any definite way. 

 They know that their mignonette grows in a little 

 pyramid, their Tom Thumb geraniums and calceo- 

 larias in sorts of bunches, and so on, and suppose 

 there is some sort of set fashion for them j but as 

 to what it is, they have not the most remote idea. 

 Let us see whether we cannot make our few way- 

 side weeds give us a clue to unravel, in some 

 degree at least, flower arrangements, or, as it is 

 called in botany, 



THE INFLORESCENCE. 



We need scarcely remark that flowers, and blos- 

 soms generally, are supported upon a stalk or stem 

 of some kind. In certain instances there is but one 

 flower to a stem, as in the primrose, the snowdrop, 

 etc. J in others, the blossoms are crowded on by 



