^8 MORPHOLOGT OP THE FLOWER. 



2*0 289 233 287 236 235 281 288 282 281 



229, Papaver (poppy) ; «, stamens ; p, stigmas. 230, Sepal. 281, Petal— .nil veg' different 

 Petals of the water-lily (Nymphcea) gradually passing into (210) stamens. 



are exactly in point. The leaves of the pasony, large and much divided below, 

 become smaller and more simple above, gradually passing into bracts and theneo 

 into sepals. In Calycantlius the sepal passes into the petal by gradations so gentle 

 that we can not mark the limit between them . In the lilies these two organs aro 

 almost identical. In the water-lily, where the sepal, petal, and stamen are all thus 

 graduated, the transition from petal to stamen is particularly instructive. These 

 two forms meet halfway by a perfect series of gradations, when a narrowed petal 

 is capped slightly with the semblance of an anther. And finally, cases of a close 

 resemblance between stamen and pistil, so unUke in the poppy, aro not wanting, aa 

 in the tulip-tree. 



379. Flowers always EEauLAE in the early bud. An early examination of 

 flower-buds often exhibits the several kinds of organs much less diverse than they 

 subsequently become. See the early bud of columbine. Those flowers which ar« 



242 241 



211, EannnonUisnorls; a tingle flower. 212, E. acrls, fi. plena, a rtoiiblo llnwer. 243, Epacro 

 impressa; the flowers changing to leafy branches (Lindloy). 



