The Bookshelf for boys and girls: Nature and Outdoor Life part 3 (1912)
University Society, New York · New York : University Society · leaf 135
mf (lower. 2. Spathe or outer sheath torn opento show the Bowers inside. : I ..iter stage of arum flower. Theseeds are forming in the rounded baseand the remainder of flower now rotsoff and falls away. 114 CURIOSITIES OF PLANT LIFE A transformationof the entire structure takesplace as the seeds… … FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF THE ARROW-ARUM. The rounded base of the sheath with its contained seeds bends downward until it resembles a snakes head thrust forward as if tostrike. The likeness increases as the stem bends : the head leans lower and lower and finally deposits the seeds upon the muddy…
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