42 BRECK’S NEW BOOK OF FLOWERS. 
est attention, has divided the colors of flowers into two 
series, the Xanthic, and the Cyanic as follows: 
( red. 
orange red. 
orange. ® 
orange yellow. 
yellow. 
| yellow green. 
Color of leaves, GREEN. . 
Xanthic or oxidized series ¢ 
( greenish blue. 
blue. 
violet blue. 
violet. 
violet red. 
red— 
founded on a memoir of Messrs. Schubler and Funk, pub- 
lished at Tubingen, in Germany, in 1825, where it is stated 
that all flowers may be divided into: two classes, one hav- 
ing the yellow color for its type; these are incapable of 
passing into blue, but into every shade of red and white ; 
the other having the dlve color for its type, which can dlso 
pass into every shade of red and white, but never into 
yellow; thus, for instance, the Potentilla, a little yellow 
flower like the butter-cup, which abounds everywhere, 
trailing along the ground, has been found of different 
shades of red, but never blue; the China Aster which has 
every tinge of red, blue, is never yellow; the Dahlia is 
never blue, but often yellow and red.” 
“Tt will have been remarked that white is omitted from 
these two series. It may be doubted, indeed, whether it: 
really exists in a state of purity in flowers, and it seems to 
be rather some other color reduced to an exceedingly light 
tint. Redouté, the French flower-painter, is said to have 
availed himself with great advantage of this fact. He al- 
ways placed the flower he wished to represent before a 
sheet of paper like that on which he had made his draw- 
Cyanic or deoxidized series 
