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 83
the blossom (191). Then the parts are said to be free , or to be inserted on the receptacle . So it is in the Buttercup, Lily, Trillium (Fig. 162), Flax, &c. But in many flowers one set of organs grows fast to an¬ other set, or, as we say, is inserted on it. For instance, we may have the Petals and… … all other parts of the blossom appear to grow on the ovary. So the ovary is said to be inferior , or, which is the same thing, the calyx (i. e. its lobes or border) and the rest of the blossom, superior . Or else we say “ calyx coherent with the ovary ” which is best, because it explains the thing.…
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