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

Allen, Grant, 1848-1899 · London : Macmillan · leaf 80

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ally adapted to very exceptional modes of insect fertilisation. The Veronicas alone among our English genera are simply blue, with white or pink lines; the others are mostly spotted or dappled. Axtirrhinum majus is purple, sometimes crimson or white, with the curiously closed throat a bright… … Fic. 25.—Flower of toad flax (Linaria vulgaris), with corolla prolonged into a honey-bearing spur; yellow, with orange palate. The very strange flowers of Scrophularia have a curious, indescribable mixture of brown, green, dingy purple, and buff. Szd¢horpia is pink, with the two smaller lobes of…

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