Familiar Wild Flowers Figured And Described volume 4
Familiar Wild Flowers Figured And Described volume 4
F Edward Frederick Edward Hulme
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The calyx is covered with the glandular hairs that we have also seen are characteristic of the upper part of the stem, and the fine lobes into which its extremity is cleft spread boldly out. These lobes share the reddish tinge we find in the upper part of the stem, and the whole calyx is somewhat viscid to the touch. The corolla is composed of five white spreading petals, their bases and veining being slightly yellowish. The stamens are ten in number, five shedding their pollen before the alter...nating five : styles two in number, terminating in two expanding and diverging stigmas. The capsule is of a pale brown colour, oval in shape, terminating in two peaks, and tilled with numerous black and very minute seeds. Bauhin, one of the older botanists, called the meadow saxifrage the Sax if rag a rotundlfolia, from the rounded character of its lower leaves. It will be remembered that a similar name is bestowed for a like reason on the little harebell, a plant we have already figured. The name of Campanula rotundifolia at first glance seams a peculiarly inappropriate one, as all the leaves that ordinarily come under observation are very long and narrow, and it is only as we approach the root we find the rotund form of leaf.
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