Botany for young people and common schools. How plants grow, a simple introduction to structural botany (1858)
Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 · New York, American Book Company · leaf 78
ut together, having three styles or stigmas. Flax affords an¬ other good illustration of symmetrical flowers (Fig. 170) : it has a calyx of five sepals, a corolla of five petals, five stamens, and five styles. In such flowers, and in blossoms generally, the parts alter - nate with each other ; that… … 209. A Regular Flower is one in which the parts of each sort are all of the sar $ shape and size. The flowers in Flax (Fig. 170) and in all the examples prt ceding it are regular. While in Larkspur and Monkshood we have not only an unsymmetrical, but
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