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The colours of flowers [microform] : as illustrated in British flora (1882)

Allen, Grant, 1848-1899 · London : Macmillan · leaf 52

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40 THE COLOURS OF FLOWERS. a tp pea nt se the campions (Fig. 15) and true pinks, have a tubular calyx, formed by the coalescence of the five sepals, and the expanded petals are raised on long claws ; which makes their honey, inclosed in the tube, acces- sible only to the higher insects. Most of… … Fic. 14.—Flowers of chickweed (Stedlaria) ; white, generally pink or red. For example, in the most advanced British genus, Dianthus, which has usually vandyked edges to the petals, our four English species are all brightly coloured, D. armeria, the Deptford pink, being red with dark spots, D.…

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