Plant-Breeding; Being Five Lectures Upon the Amelioration of Domestic Plants
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252 STRUCTURE OF THE FLOWER. 258 This envelope protects the inner or essential organs, and it also attracts insects, which often perform the labor of pollination. This floral envelope is usn- ally of two series or parts, — an outer and commonly green series known as the calyx^ and an inner and generally more showy series known as the corolla. These two se- ries are well shown in the bell-flower, Fig. 1. The calyx, with its re- flexed lobes, is at C. and the large bell-form portion is the coroll...a. When the calyx is com- posed of separate parts or leaves, each part is called a sepal; in like manner each separate part of the corolla is a petal. In the lily, Fig, 2, there is no dis- tinction between calyx and corolla ; or, it may be said, the calyx is wanting. These envelopes of the flower are often much disguised. This is particularly true in the orchids, one of which, a lady-slipper, is illustrated in P^ig. 3. The sepals are seen at DD. They are apparently only two, but there is reason to believe that the lower sepal Fig.
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