The colours of flowers [microform] : as illustrated in British flora (1882)
Allen, Grant, 1848-1899 · London : Macmillan · leaf 76
belts and spots of dappled colour. Inthe allied 7vopeolum (Fig. 23) or Indian cress (the so-called nasturtium of old-fashioned gardens—though the plant is really no more related to the water-cress and other true nasturtiums than we ourselves are to the great kangaroo) this tendency is carried still… … Fic. 23.—Flower of Indian cress (770pa@olumt majus), with one sepal prolonged into a honey-bearing spur ; orange and yellow. observes that without such conventional marks to guide them, bees would waste a great deal of time in bungling about the mouths of flowers; for they are helpless, blundering…
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