14 OF THE FLOWER 
BRACTS. 
15. On examining a Lime Tree in bloom, the stalk 
supporting the flowers will be seen to rise out of a 
small leaf-like part, which is in fact a leaf diminished 
in size, and because so shortened and placed next the 
flowers is termed a Bract or short leat of the flower. 
The large leaf which folds round the red berries of the 
Wake Robin or Cuckoo-pint (f. 4. b.), is a kind of 
bract. So also the withered leaf placed below the 
flower of the Jonquil, Narcissus, (f. 6. b.), or Daffodil, 
is a bract. In the Dandelion, Daisy, and Marigold 
(f. 5. b.), all the little green leaves situated below the 
flowers, and forming a cup-like covering, are so many 
bracts, but when so arranged are termed an Involucre. 
OF THE FLOWER. 
16. The next part of a plant to be examined is the 
Flower, and that it may be well and readily understood, 
the following examples, which will be found to be easy 
of access, must be carefully studied. 
a. On looking at a flower of a Wild Geranium, (a 
garden one will do tolerably well, if carefully compared 
with the figure in plate 7.), five small green leaves 
(f. 1. ¢.) covered with fine hairs will be seen just below 
the part called the flower or blossom. ‘These together 
form what is called the flower-cup, and the term Calyx 
_ is also applied to this part. Within this flower-cup will 
be seen five large coloured leaves (p.), (white, scarlet, 
&e. according to the kind of Geranium examined), 
which spread out into a broad flower, these together 
compose the Corolla, and the five «ivisions are termed 
