Wild Flowers as They Grow 



and composite flower blooms, such as the daisy. 

 Indeed their caUces and their ovaries are often 

 definitely attached in pairs. 



The woody twining stem of the Honeysuckle is 

 one of the very few that increase in thickness, and 

 it always twists from left to right. Often it presses 

 very hardly upon the trees and shrubs round which 

 it twines. " It groweth in woods and hedges and 

 upon shrubbes and bushes, oftentimes winding it 

 selfe so straight and hard about that it leaveth his 

 print upon these things so wrapped," says Gerard, 

 and Shakespeare's allusion, " So doth the woodbine 

 the sweet honeysuckle gently entwist the maple," 

 is distinctly optimistic. 



The leaves have no stalks and arise in pairs. 



They are very sensitive to the direction of light, 



and it should be noticed that in whatsoever direction 



the stem may be growing the leaves upon it will 



always arrange themselves so that their upper 



surface will directly receive the hght. Hence, we 



find them making all manner of angles with the 



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