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MOKPHOLOGY OF THE FLOWER. 

 237 286 285 28( 283 282 281 



280 229 



229, Papaver (poppy) ; «, stamens ; p, stigmas. 230, Sepal. 281, Petal— all very different. 2.S2 

 Petals of the water-lily (Nymphiea) gradually passing into (240) stamens. 



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

 become smaller and more simple above, gradiunlly passing into bracts and thence 

 into sepals. In Calyoanthus 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 are 

 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 half way 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 unlike in the poppy, are not wanting, as 

 in the tulip-tree. 



379. Flowers always ebgulae 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 are 

 243 242 241 



241, Eanunonlnsaorisj a single flower. 242, K. aoris, p. plena, a double llowor. 243, Epacris 

 Imprassa; the flowers changing to leafy branches (Llndloy). 



