The colours of flowers [microform] : as illustrated in British flora (1882)
Allen, Grant, 1848-1899 · London : Macmillan · leaf 67
5 sage (Fig. 19), and basil, which it need hardly be said are great favourites with bees. Ground-ivy (Nepeta gle- choma) is bright blue; catmint (Nepeta cataria), pale blue; Prunella, violet-purple ;_ and common bugle (Ajuga reptans), blue or flesh-colour. Many of the others are purple or purplish.… … Fic. 19.—Flower of sage (Swlviu) visited by bee; blue. The Scrophularinee and other allied irregular tubular families are mostly spotted, and so belong to a later stage of our inquiry; but even amongst this group, the Veronica genus has almost always pure bluc flowers ; foxglove (Digitalis…
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