The colours of flowers [microform] : as illustrated in British flora (1882)
Allen, Grant, 1848-1899 · London : Macmillan · leaf 49
LAW OF PROGRESSIVE COLOURA TION. 37 lated with the visits of insects, for the two highly abnormal petals under the helmet of the monkshood produce honey, as do also the two long petals within the spur of the larkspur. Both flowers are also specially adapted to the very highest class of insect… … Fic. 12.—Flowers of monkshood (Aconitum napellus), dark blue. Aconitum is chiefly fertilized by bees; and Sir John Lubbock observes that “ Anthophora pilipes and Bom- bus hortorum are the only two North European insects which have a proboscis long enough to reach to the end of the spur of…
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