The colours of flowers [microform] : as illustrated in British flora (1882)
Allen, Grant, 1848-1899 · London : Macmillan · leaf 24
laments growing flatter and broader, and the pollen-sacs less and less perfect; next we find a few stamens which look exactly like petals, only that they have two abortive anthers stuck awkwardly on to their summits ; and, finally, we find true petals, broad and flat, and without any trace of the… … Fic. 3.—Transition from stamens into petals in white waterlily (Vyphea alba), “But how do we know,” it may be asked, “that the transition was not in the opposite direction? How do we know that the waterlily had not petals alone to start with, and that these did not afterwards develop, as the…
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