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REPORT—1854. 
On Associations of Colour and Relations of Colour and Form in Plants. 
Bv Professor n RO h r. ir Fltr-irnr HT 71 TiolfnO 
w.wu.o, oucu, III met, la the foundation of Prof. Harvey's ciawncw"". " “ 
divides them into red, green and olive. Among the red there are many which 
a red-purple hue, and among the olive rot a few are vellciw-green. Red & 1 " 1 L "" ’ 
are complementary, and red-purple and ydlow-grucn stand in the same rvlato 
mong mosses we find the red or red-purple peristome associated with the rr - 1 
KIT;!"*" ca F su|p - u "* 1 the same is true of their stems and leaves. In to™"* 
plants the associations of certain colours are so numerous, that it is uiinccc - v ;. 
m r?/ ry morL ' Ulu, ‘ mention a few examples. In the leaves of ('‘If 
fret no, ,? n"" B i ‘ ani1 r ™*°ria Regia wc find red or red-purple 
^eDenthwf n °^"?v° U1 t. 4 -.. I lu ' a, ‘ nil ‘ is Hue Of the pitcher-like organs of. arr.i • 
common' w d £)lS 1 chld,u - the flower similar associations of various kind •; 
red ^ Liirl 6 Dc "I 1 1 not wpeot to find in a corolla or any other organ the prim '■ 
Vellow ha« 0VV * i° r ^ U j ni "* red > associated and in contact. The red has gm - ^ 
rarest _ m * )Ur R e ' and the blue hua orange associated. Of the primaries. . _ 
vellnw^ T 8 f u t,cnoi «iuated being, in fact, blue-purples- 1" die / 
JSZS^nt hcDce the wry general diffusion of purple of various deyn 
undors.InH l Tpk 5 Cln S. of 8tich general occurrence in the flower, we cm 
cases seem > c UV J ‘ a the most common colour of pollen: w,n)C 1 ,** - 
cTM r° nfirm > ; ir > tbe turn-cap lily, for example, the red P°"^ * K . : 
in that of gre ^“ fi,nni °ots. The colour of the flower may have in co I . 
iis bte at PnrtS ' 3S stL ‘ m - l«r, &c. Sometimes the associated eokj»»*£ 
green sSL?™ t,me - Thp bmd* of a ripe fig is red-purple, the onU.de - 
St SSS T 11 »T. llow eorol!. is succeeded by a purple fruit- B 
to intensity ^ B,,d general correctly admitted to have a dir«t 
Thi pin -hnl Ur 10 or S*''»*>' «PP»rs not to be nectary 
dZtZ i^ZZ r ‘ r? reci * ivc tht> ©t at some part or other. « order »T 
and in the tinn ^ °f co our observed in the coats of seeds, in the ifttcrio , 
yellow and . * * «**"■»*■«» organs. In conclusion-1- The pn-"g£ 
irimL nrr, i ' ** ^ nerul, >' be seen in some part of the plant. 
some other nnrt'" **7 ^* rt of the plant, its complement will u*oal ily > j j, 
found in nnM?r° r * 0rae P criod or other of the development of the I'l#"' • lliUf 
5 K£ P fe " In the animal kingdom similar association* 
»h, ' SfitjS ” d , present many dbvinut exam,.I- , We n . * ; . 
fined to the flowpr ” ? >teor an,, farm < 0ml ,he remarks nre, for tb*. P , g . ; y 
colour is uniformly di f "i '* » In re £ u,ar polypetalous and gantopeta 1 \na bflC -*l 
unifoni iS n s£2 aHOT 1! that “ to the f* iece3 th , e "^££5 0 
this occur in PHmJlSlJ*|f aV *- W,ch 2 ° ' ,f,ual P ro P 0r,,on ° n f ‘“SL^Cnicif*** 
Rosace*, Cactacca-, & c u' 8 ??’ Er » a «*' pentianOT, I irrrfP* 
distribution of colour Tho ^J 2 ’, f m ‘" ul,lr,t >' ol coro,,a '! a35l - l,Tied in *** 
size and colour u*i .l od< ? ^°be of tbe corolla in such is mc.?t • t jj* (xW 
lobe ; when there nrc-^w there ‘ 9 0,l, y colour, it is usually more ' n “** he odd M*’ 
o, one of them is very generally confined to 
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